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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gina Gondek Marty Lenz on Colorado's Morning News helping victims
of a violent war. It's stretching on for nearly one
thousand days. Russian attacks continue to escalate in A nonprofit
called Global Care Force is sending a team of medical
professionals and trauma victim advocates to the war zone in
Ukraine to help Ukrainians in small villages we're little to
(00:20):
no healthcare exists.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
And also traveling with this team our friend and colleague
with Fox thirty one news anchor Jeremy Hubbard. He's there
to share the stories of those helping provide support to Ukraine,
and he joins us now here on Colorado's Morning News.
My friend, I appreciate you calling in. I'm glad that
you're over there seeing what's going on firsthand. Where are
you right now.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Yeah, we're in a small town, just a couple of
hours outside of Kiev right now where I'm actually at
this very moment standing in a clinic with probably about
forty Ukrainians, all of them looking for medical care. They
have no doctors, no nurses at all because their town
basically anybody who's able bodied and knows anything about medicine
has gone off to help with the war efforts, so
they're left with nothing. And that's where these Colorado volunteers
(01:00):
come in to help out. And I got to tell
you about this woman we just met literally five minutes ago.
She came in here. She's got a very young baby.
She escaped the goansk An area that is occupied by
the Russians, and she came here with the baby and
just needed medical help, needed to check up. She's got
a fourteen year old child who's still in the war
zone that she's trying to get out of there. And
it's all making what's going on in Ukraine very real
(01:21):
for these volunteers, myself included. In fact, this morning at
our hotel in Kiev, we were awakened by an air
raid warning telling us to get down to shelter. Turns
out a couple of missiles had dropped outside of town.
They were shot down actually by Ukrainian forces, But it
just shows you how real the threat is still here.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Jareman, the rest of the Ukraine War has been coming
up on nearly three years now. What kind of damage
have you been seeing on the ground as of late.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
It's interesting the minute we got to Kiev. We walked
into town and near the city center. There are several
buildings that are bombed out, apartment buildings. There was one
kindergarten that was bombed out and basically just left in
a pile of rubble. We saw that right away, and
it's so wild. Just driving down the street in in
downtown Kiev, we saw several burned up and bombed out
cars parked on the road as if any other car
(02:05):
you know, you see, you know, parked in Cherry Creek
or something. These cars were just sitting their roadside and
all of them completely bombed out. It's just a wild site.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It sounds like you mentioned, Jeremy, that these nonprofits yourself
kind of in the line of fire. I mean, I'm
sure the Ukrainians they must be happy, and as you
allude to the men of fighting age or not present,
they must be appreciative of any and all resources that we,
the US and others are providing.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
At this point, they're elated and also, you know, a
little bit worried, I think because obviously with an administration
change in January, without getting political, you know, they don't
they're worried that the American support will wane after the
change has come in Washington in January. But nevertheless, you
know this charity, Global Care Force, they're not political, they
don't care. They're just here to help. And so that's
(02:48):
why they run up this team of doctors, nurses, nurse
practitioners from wherever they can around the country. The charity's
based in Kansas City, but I'm here with a couple
of volunteers from Denver, including a guy, Doug Amos from
Castle Rock. He's a practitioner. I'm a physician's assistant. Sorry
about that. He helps with these patients to check them out,
diagnose him. Another woman who helps with trauma care, Leanna Stofer,
(03:08):
she works in Denver. She's here because you can imagine
trauma is really the underlying factor behind so many of
these ailments, physical and mental. Yeah, they may have a
sore joint or hip problems, but really what's going on
here is stress from three years of war for all
of them.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Tell us a little bit more about some of those
stories with Global Care Force, because on TV yesterday you
were talking to somebody who's been coming to Ukraine I
believe over a dozen times now, which.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I'm looking at her right now. Roxanna Jones is her name,
and she's a nurse. She's been volut volunteering in Ukraine
with this organization since the very beginning of the war,
so it's been here fifteen times. And basically she comes
here and helps organize the teams that go from village
to village and provide this medical care. So she's crucial
to the effort here. And there's so many of them,
the people who do that. And the interesting thing is
these volunteers they have to raise their own money to
(03:55):
do this as part of the model with the charity,
So they got to raise six grand from fans, friends, colleagues, whoever,
just to have the privilege of coming here and volunteering
their time and their skills. So this clearly is a
passionate labor of love for all of them. Who else
would come here under the threat of missiles and air
raid sirens and having to pay your own way, essentially
than people who are really dedicated to making others' lives better.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
And Jeremy, if I understand, obviously they're taking care of
those that are affected and impacted by the war literally
in that sense, but I'm imagining there's just regular normal
care that people need that maybe have underlying conditions and
ailments that they are aveiled to have medical care at
this point because of the conflict going on.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Well, yeah, honestly, Marie, that's the biggest part of what
they do here. This is people who have hypertension, who
have diabetes, who need to take heart medicine or whatever,
and they can't because they don't have medical doctors here anymore.
The pharmacies close, the hospitals closed, they have zero medical
care or mental health care at all. And that's where
this charity comes in. And so that's what's so fascinating
(04:54):
about what they do. It's the stuff we forget about
in our professional I think I always say that in
the news, whether TV, newspaper, whatever, we often intersect with
people on the worst day of their lives, but so
little is followed up on. We don't know much about them,
about what happens after that, whether it's are shooting in
Aurora or a war half a world away. And so
it's fascinating to get to be an eyewitness here to
what happens after these stories stop appearing in the headlines,
(05:18):
even though they should still be the front and center
because of what's going on here, it's still the threat
is still so ever present. And one other note, if
I could just real quickly, you know, I said that
they have plenty of people who volunteer, but actually they
have another mission coming to Ukraine next month. So if
any doctors, nurses, physicians, assistants in Denver listening who want
to be a part of this, you can go to
their website globalcaarforce dot com. You could volunteer and you
(05:39):
could be here in Ukraine within just a few weeks
helping out Jeremy.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Real quick and wrapping up with you, We've talked a
lot about the physical devastation that's very much apparent there,
but talk about the emotional piece, what is being done
in order to try to help uplift those social positivity,
maybe some glimpse of hope for some of those living
in Ukraine right now.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I think the biggest thing is, you know that this
trauma care expert we're traveling with, leannas Stofer of Denver,
she's actually in a room right now, probably fifty feet
from me, talking to a woman who has gone through
the trauma of war. And I think that a lot
of times they don't have time to verbalize that and
any mental health practitioner here in Ukraine probably doesn't have
the capacity to help others because they too are suffering
(06:17):
trauma and stress. And so to have an outsider come
here and help in some objective way where their only
purposes to try and make life better, it's got to
help exponentially. And I think it's you know, most wounds
are visible, but these are the unseen wounds that everybody
in this country is dealing with right now and has
for a thousand days.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
We use words like hero, compassion, encourage, sometimes too often
without understanding the meeting. Jeremy, I think what you're seeing
and you covering this and reminding us that these things
are going on another places of the world really reveals
that many people, people in our own backyard here in Colorado,
have those all those accouterments and all those those gifts.
So I appreciate you coming on with us to highlight
those and talk about what you're doing over there.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, you bet, thanks for having me. It's really an honor.
I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Fox thirty one News Jeremy Hubbard, reporting live from Ukraine.
Gina Gondek Marty Lenz on Colorado's Morning News helping victims
of a violent war. It's stretching on for nearly one
thousand days. Russian attacks continue to escalate in A nonprofit
called Global Care Force is sending a team of medical
professionals and trauma victim advocates to the war zone in
Ukraine to help Ukrainians in small villages we're little to
(00:20):
no healthcare exists.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
And also traveling with this team our friend and colleague
with Fox thirty one news anchor Jeremy Hubbard. He's there
to share the stories of those helping provide support to Ukraine,
and he joins us now here on Colorado's Morning News.
My friend, I appreciate you calling in. I'm glad that
you're over there seeing what's going on firsthand. Where are
you right now.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Yeah, we're in a small town, just a couple of
hours outside of Kiev right now where I'm actually at
this very moment standing in a clinic with probably about
forty Ukrainians, all of them looking for medical care. They
have no doctors, no nurses at all because their town
basically anybody who's able bodied and knows anything about medicine
has gone off to help with the war efforts, so
they're left with nothing. And that's where these Colorado volunteers
(01:00):
come in to help out. And I got to tell
you about this woman we just met literally five minutes ago.
She came in here. She's got a very young baby.
She escaped the goansk An area that is occupied by
the Russians, and she came here with the baby and
just needed medical help, needed to check up. She's got
a fourteen year old child who's still in the war
zone that she's trying to get out of there. And
it's all making what's going on in Ukraine very real
(01:21):
for these volunteers, myself included. In fact, this morning at
our hotel in Kiev, we were awakened by an air
raid warning telling us to get down to shelter. Turns
out a couple of missiles had dropped outside of town.
They were shot down actually by Ukrainian forces, But it
just shows you how real the threat is still here.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Jareman, the rest of the Ukraine War has been coming
up on nearly three years now. What kind of damage
have you been seeing on the ground as of late.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
It's interesting the minute we got to Kiev. We walked
into town and near the city center. There are several
buildings that are bombed out, apartment buildings. There was one
kindergarten that was bombed out and basically just left in
a pile of rubble. We saw that right away, and
it's so wild. Just driving down the street in in
downtown Kiev, we saw several burned up and bombed out
cars parked on the road as if any other car
(02:05):
you know, you see, you know, parked in Cherry Creek
or something. These cars were just sitting their roadside and
all of them completely bombed out. It's just a wild site.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It sounds like you mentioned, Jeremy, that these nonprofits yourself
kind of in the line of fire. I mean, I'm
sure the Ukrainians they must be happy, and as you
allude to the men of fighting age or not present,
they must be appreciative of any and all resources that we,
the US and others are providing.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
At this point, they're elated and also, you know, a
little bit worried, I think because obviously with an administration
change in January, without getting political, you know, they don't
they're worried that the American support will wane after the
change has come in Washington in January. But nevertheless, you
know this charity, Global Care Force, they're not political, they
don't care. They're just here to help. And so that's
(02:48):
why they run up this team of doctors, nurses, nurse
practitioners from wherever they can around the country. The charity's
based in Kansas City, but I'm here with a couple
of volunteers from Denver, including a guy, Doug Amos from
Castle Rock. He's a practitioner. I'm a physician's assistant. Sorry
about that. He helps with these patients to check them out,
diagnose him. Another woman who helps with trauma care, Leanna Stofer,
(03:08):
she works in Denver. She's here because you can imagine
trauma is really the underlying factor behind so many of
these ailments, physical and mental. Yeah, they may have a
sore joint or hip problems, but really what's going on
here is stress from three years of war for all
of them.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Tell us a little bit more about some of those
stories with Global Care Force, because on TV yesterday you
were talking to somebody who's been coming to Ukraine I
believe over a dozen times now, which.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I'm looking at her right now. Roxanna Jones is her name,
and she's a nurse. She's been volut volunteering in Ukraine
with this organization since the very beginning of the war,
so it's been here fifteen times. And basically she comes
here and helps organize the teams that go from village
to village and provide this medical care. So she's crucial
to the effort here. And there's so many of them,
the people who do that. And the interesting thing is
these volunteers they have to raise their own money to
(03:55):
do this as part of the model with the charity,
So they got to raise six grand from fans, friends, colleagues, whoever,
just to have the privilege of coming here and volunteering
their time and their skills. So this clearly is a
passionate labor of love for all of them. Who else
would come here under the threat of missiles and air
raid sirens and having to pay your own way, essentially
than people who are really dedicated to making others' lives better.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
And Jeremy, if I understand, obviously they're taking care of
those that are affected and impacted by the war literally
in that sense, but I'm imagining there's just regular normal
care that people need that maybe have underlying conditions and
ailments that they are aveiled to have medical care at
this point because of the conflict going on.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Well, yeah, honestly, Marie, that's the biggest part of what
they do here. This is people who have hypertension, who
have diabetes, who need to take heart medicine or whatever,
and they can't because they don't have medical doctors here anymore.
The pharmacies close, the hospitals closed, they have zero medical
care or mental health care at all. And that's where
this charity comes in. And so that's what's so fascinating
(04:54):
about what they do. It's the stuff we forget about
in our professional I think I always say that in
the news, whether TV, newspaper, whatever, we often intersect with
people on the worst day of their lives, but so
little is followed up on. We don't know much about them,
about what happens after that, whether it's are shooting in
Aurora or a war half a world away. And so
it's fascinating to get to be an eyewitness here to
what happens after these stories stop appearing in the headlines,
(05:18):
even though they should still be the front and center
because of what's going on here, it's still the threat
is still so ever present. And one other note, if
I could just real quickly, you know, I said that
they have plenty of people who volunteer, but actually they
have another mission coming to Ukraine next month. So if
any doctors, nurses, physicians, assistants in Denver listening who want
to be a part of this, you can go to
their website globalcaarforce dot com. You could volunteer and you
(05:39):
could be here in Ukraine within just a few weeks
helping out Jeremy.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Real quick and wrapping up with you, We've talked a
lot about the physical devastation that's very much apparent there,
but talk about the emotional piece, what is being done
in order to try to help uplift those social positivity,
maybe some glimpse of hope for some of those living
in Ukraine right now.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I think the biggest thing is, you know that this
trauma care expert we're traveling with, leannas Stofer of Denver,
she's actually in a room right now, probably fifty feet
from me, talking to a woman who has gone through
the trauma of war. And I think that a lot
of times they don't have time to verbalize that and
any mental health practitioner here in Ukraine probably doesn't have
the capacity to help others because they too are suffering
(06:17):
trauma and stress. And so to have an outsider come
here and help in some objective way where their only
purposes to try and make life better, it's got to
help exponentially. And I think it's you know, most wounds
are visible, but these are the unseen wounds that everybody
in this country is dealing with right now and has
for a thousand days.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
We use words like hero, compassion, encourage, sometimes too often
without understanding the meeting. Jeremy, I think what you're seeing
and you covering this and reminding us that these things
are going on another places of the world really reveals
that many people, people in our own backyard here in Colorado,
have those all those accouterments and all those those gifts.
So I appreciate you coming on with us to highlight
those and talk about what you're doing over there.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, you bet, thanks for having me. It's really an honor.
I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Fox thirty one News Jeremy Hubbard, reporting live from Ukraine.
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