By this point in my career, I was no stranger to refugee camps and settlements, and I had come to understand that one of the greatest services we could render was to ask about the residents’ stories…and then to genuinely listen.
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Help is Getting to Ukrainians
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Young men and women from Zimbabwe are stepping up to serve missions in unusual numbers, and there’s no secret why. It is the same reason that medical supplies are available to the sick in Zim and some of the starving have food. It isn’t a government aid program or the work of some large, international humanitarian group. It comes down to the energies, vision and kindness of three high-profile Latter-day Saint professional golfers.
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