A physician’s assistant recently retired from a psychiatric section at a Veterans Administration hospital in Pennsylvania, Tre Bono, avidly follows news
Bono is just coming off a volunteer experience with Global Care Force, a well-established medical aid organization that in October helped a group of five Americans and one Canadian to undertake a medical mission aimed at civilians in Ukraine. Bono and the group traveled to 12 villages that had recently been liberated from Russian control. Working and traveling alongside Ukrainian doctors, translators, drivers, etc., the six volunteers offered care at community clinics in areas that had been devastated by the Russian offensive.
Although Bono’s determination to go to Ukraine was precipitated by the war there, he has long been interested in the fight for democracy in Eastern Europe. When he was a student in Germany in the 1980s, he helped raise money for the Polish group Solidarity, toured Poland, and did freelance writing. “The struggle for democracy is alive and in jeopardy in Eastern Europe,” he explained.
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