KarunaNews Story

It’s easy to think the world’s biggest issues, such as the war in Ukraine, are far too big for any one person to do anything about. But Inge Raudzus knows better. She was a child living in Berlin during the Second World War, in what became East Berlin under Soviet occupation. Care parcels didn’t make it there very often. But one parcel included cans of condensed milk. Her older brother gave her the first sip but they all got sick because it was so rich on empty stomachs. Now living in Vernon at the age of 83, she’s kept her hands busy knitting more than 100 toques for Ukrainian children, to be shipped in January through the North Okanagan Valley Gleaners. “I can just imagine the children that don’t have anything and are cold,” she said. “I’ve been there, I know what it feels like.