Dear Friends,

My 70th Birthday will be on October 13, 2025 and I've decided that I would like any and all presents to go to this fundraising campaign that will raise money to have a Ukrainian children's magazine publisher the ability to print of children's book that will go to thousands of children--many of them orphaned by the war--throughout Ukraine.

I launched a similar fundraising campaign back in January 2024. It was after I posted my story on (link below) about a publisher of children's magazines named Peter Dudyk whose operation had been disabled due to the war but had begun creating, printing, and distributing his magazine again to orphanages, classrooms, and children's facilities in Kyiv and surrounding areas of the country. I've been communicating with him for almost three years through social media and have sent him some of my own funds to get his children's magazines published.

https://open.substack.com/pub/patrioticprogressive/p/saving-the-children-of-the-ukraine?r=68ib9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Peter's operation has been self-funded or helped by small donations and he has also raised money for supplies for Ukrainian troops on the front lines. But he can only continue publishing educational magazines for the children as he has the resources. Here's where you come in. The funds you donate to this campaign for Ukrainian Children will come directly to me and then I will transfer them to the account Peter has set up in Ukraine to receive them. I sincerely hope you will help this effort. Thanks!

Save Ukraine!

Stephen Hanks