As a Dublin mother of two tries to not worry endlessly about her own mother, who must shelter in a basement several times a day in Kyiv, she’s taking action by organizing a donation drive in the Tri-Valley.

Katernya Bila, a pharmacist who came to the Bay Area from Ukraine with her husband Oleksandr Bilyi two years ago, filled her apartment and SUV in just two days with items collected from her neighbors for a Bay Area humanitarian aid collection center in San Jose.

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