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CONTRIBUTED Pics — From left to suitable, Alli Johnson, Liza Yaryshkina and Brock Johnson. Yaryshkina is a Ukrainian exchange scholar and is presently living in Waukee with her host mother and father, the Johnsons. Alli is a Marshalltown native and MHS graduate.

With the war involving Russia and Ukraine raging, people today all about the earth are doing whatsoever they can to assist the Ukrainian men and women. Fundraising has been a go to for individuals looking to support, and for Liza Yaryshkina, a 16-year-outdated international exchange university student from Ukraine, it is one of the best approaches she can aid her individuals.

Yaryshkina, who arrived to Iowa through the Potential Leaders Trade Method (FLEX), is presently living in Waukee with host parents Alli and Brock Johnson and attending Waukee Large College. Alli, a Marshalltown Significant Faculty alumni, is the daughter of community company proprietors Tom and Mary Curley.

Yaryshkina’s mom and brother were in a position to escape the conflict, but her father continues to be in Ukraine. To present her guidance for equally her country and her father, she saw the FLEX program’s close of 12 months job as an prospect to give again to her residence neighborhood by coming up with a fundraiser.

She and two other foreign trade pupils — Aisha Kademova from Kazakhstan and Bakai Tolundo from Kyrgyzstan — bought alongside one another to brainstorm some concepts to increase cash. At some point, they settled on promoting T-shirts.

“They experienced a bunch of strategies but the T-shirt matter is what truly took off,” Alli Johnson reported.

CONTRIBUTED Photograph From still left to suitable, Olga, Liza, Roman and Dyma Yaryshkina. Liza’s mom and brother, Olga and Dyma, have been securely evacuated from Ukraine, but Liza’s father Roman continues to be in the country. Liza is elevating dollars to donate to the Kyiv Maternity Healthcare facility.

They were being in a position to lover with Mike Draper, who owns the Des Moines printing, design and clothes enterprise Raygun, to make the strategy a reality. Johnson claimed the fact that Draper served them structure the T-shirts and is printing them at no preliminary cost solidified the strategy.

“Mike has been excellent to function with. He in essence sat down with the children and intended four diverse T-shirts and mentioned ‘We’ll choose on the cost. You men just promote them and we’ll figure out the dollars and the cents later on.’ So appropriate now he’s not charging them just about anything,” Johnson reported.

Immediately after they sell all the shirts, they plan on having to pay Raygun back for the supplies and donating the gains to the Kyiv Maternity Hospital that was tragically bombed. The physician who delivered Yaryshkina basically will work at that hospital.

They started out offering the shirts about two weeks in the past, and Alli Johnson said Yaryshkina was surprised at how common it’s been.

“I feel it is gotten a good deal far more focus than she considered she ever would for this, so she’s a tiny taken aback by that but she’s truly liking it,” Alli Johnson explained. “It tends to make you come to feel like a proud father or mother. That is really all there is to it. She’s executing a fantastic career, her and her buddies.”

The shirts are being offered at Tannin Wine Bar in Marshalltown, which is owned by the Curleys, as effectively as on Raygun’s website at https://www.rayguncustom.com/collections/learners-united-for-ukraine. Alli Johnson stated they ended up also on the lookout into setting up booths at the Hy-Vees in Ankeny and Waukee to sell the T-shirts as well, however they are nevertheless ironing out the facts.

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