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WE KNITTED 14,000 TEDDIES FOR UKRAINE!

Typing the name ‘Yuri’, into Facebook, lots of profiles popped up, but not the one I needed.

‘I’m never going to find him,’ I fretted to my hubby, Andrew, then 58.

It was 2018 and, 25 years earlier in 1993, we’d fostered a gorgeous little boy named Yuri, from Ukraine.

Australian charity Victims of Chernobyl National Relief Fund had flown Ukrainian children affected by the 1986 nuclear disaster out from contaminated regions around Chernobyl.

And Aussies across the nation opened their hearts

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