BEAU: A DALLAS CENTER-GRESIM FOREIGN EXCHANGE STUDENT IS ONE OF MANY WHO ASKED GOVERNOR REYNOLDS TO STEP IN. AND BECAUSE OF HER, 30,000 MLSEA WERE SHIPPED OUT TODAY WITH HUNDREDS OF THOUNDSAS MORE TO BE PACKAGED. >> YOU CAN FEED THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN WHO RIGHT NOW ARE IN DESPERATE SITUATI.ON BEAU: THAT’S WHAT DALLAS CENTER-GRIMES REFOIGN EXCHANGE STUDENT, BIANNA SHARSHEEVA, FROM KYRGYZSTAN, WANTED TO DO WHEN SHE HEARD RUSSIA HAD INVEDAD UKRAINE. AS A REGULAR VOLUNTEER AT MESAL FROM THE HEARTLAND, GOVERNOR KIM REYNOLD’S PLAN TO PARTNER WITH THE NONPROFIT WAS A PERFECT WAY FOR HER TO STEP IN. >> SHE SAID THEY’RE GOING TO TLE ME TAKE INITIATIVE AND LEATHD E PROJECT, AND THEY’RE GOING TO SUPPORT ME AS MUCH AS THEY CAN. BEAU: SHARSHEEVA IS NOW RAISGIN MONEY TO COVER THE SHIPPING STCO FOR MORE PALLETS OF FOOD, LIKE YOU SEE HERE, TO BE SHIPPETO UKRAINE. SO FAR, THEY’VE RAISED ABOUT $1,2 O00F THEIR $5,000OAL. G >> IT MAKES ME HAPPY THAT EVEN TEENERAGS AND HIGH SCHOOLERS THINK ABOUT THIS. >> WE PACKAGE TWO DIFFERENT TYPES OF MEALS. OUR TACO MAC MEALS, AS WELL AS OUR HEARTYAC PK MEALS. BEAU: WEDNESDAY, 30,000 MEALS LEFT THE WEST DES MOINES FACILITY ALRDYEA EN ROUTE TO UKRAINE, THE FIRST SHIPMENT OF GOVERNOR REYNOLD’S PROMISE. BUT AFTER A PUBLIC PACKAGING EVENT WITH MEALS FROM ETH HEARTLAND, LATER THIS MONTH, THEY HOPE TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE 285,000 MEALS TO THOSE IN NEED IN THE WAR TORN COUNTRY. >> IOWANS IN GENERALOV LTOE GIVE BACK AND LOVE TO BE ABLE TO GIVE TO THEIR COMMUNITY BOTH HERE AND ALL OVER THE WOD.RL REPORTER: THE PUBLIC PACKAGING EVENT WILLE B ANNOUNCED LATER THIS WEEK. RHA:EY BIANNA IS TRYING TO RAISE $5,000 TO COVER THE SHIPPING COST FOR THE MEALS. DONATIONS CAN BE SENTHT ROUGH VENMO, HER HOST MOTHERAT, @ANGELA-NEUMEY
Dallas Center-Grimes foreign exchange student leads effort to help Ukrainians
Updated: 7:00 PM CDT Apr 6, 2022
Bianna Sharsheeva is a foreign exchange student at Dallas Center-Grimes from Kyrgyzstan (just east of Ukraine). She is one of many who asked Governor Reynolds to step in to help Ukraine.On Wednesday, 30,000 meals were shipped out with hundreds of thousands more to be packaged.”You can feed thousands and thousands of children who right now are in a desperate situation,” Bianna Sharsheeva said. As a regular volunteer at Meals From the Heartland, Governor Kim Reynold’s plan to partner with the non-profit was a perfect way for Sharsheeva to step in. “She said they’re going to let me take initiative and lead the project and they’re going to support me as much as they can,” Sharsheeva said.Sharsheeva is now raising money to cover the shipping cost for more pallets of food to be shipped to Ukraine. So far, about $1,200 of their $5,000 goal has been raised. “It makes me happy that even teenagers and high schoolers think about this,” she said. On Wednesday, 30,000 meals left the West Des Moines Facility. They are already en route to Ukraine as the first shipment of Gov. Kim Reynolds’ promise. After a public packaging event with Meals From the Heartland later this month, they hope to be able to provide 285,000 meals to those in need in the war-torn country.Meals from the Heartland warehouse manager, Georgie Filber said, “Iowans in general love to give back and love to be able to give to their community both here and all over the world.”The public packaging event here at Meals From the Heartland will be announced next week by the governor’s office.
Bianna Sharsheeva is a foreign exchange student at Dallas Center-Grimes from Kyrgyzstan (just east of Ukraine). She is one of many who asked Governor Reynolds to step in to help Ukraine.
On Wednesday, 30,000 meals were shipped out with hundreds of thousands more to be packaged.
“You can feed thousands and thousands of children who right now are in a desperate situation,” Bianna Sharsheeva said.
As a regular volunteer at Meals From the Heartland, Governor Kim Reynold’s plan to partner with the non-profit was a perfect way for Sharsheeva to step in. “She [Gov. Kim Reynolds] said they’re going to let me take initiative and lead the project and they’re going to support me as much as they can,” Sharsheeva said.
Sharsheeva is now raising money to cover the shipping cost for more pallets of food to be shipped to Ukraine. So far, about $1,200 of their $5,000 goal has been raised. “It makes me happy that even teenagers and high schoolers think about this,” she said.
On Wednesday, 30,000 meals left the West Des Moines Facility. They are already en route to Ukraine as the first shipment of Gov. Kim Reynolds’ promise.
After a public packaging event with Meals From the Heartland later this month, they hope to be able to provide 285,000 meals to those in need in the war-torn country.
Meals from the Heartland warehouse manager, Georgie Filber said, “Iowans in general love to give back and love to be able to give to their community both here and all over the world.”
The public packaging event here at Meals From the Heartland will be announced next week by the governor’s office.
