Rockford raises money to support youngness from country miss municipality – Journal Important Internet

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) – The City of metropolis asks for support upbringing money for Brovary, Rockford’s miss municipality in Ukraine.

The Community Foundation of Northern Illinois, the YMCA of Rock River Valley and the metropolis Area Convention and Visitors Bureau is employed with the City of metropolis to improve funds.

In August, decade children and digit chaperones are temporary metropolis to pay instance healing. Each of the decade children hit old the expiration of their fathers by modification or leaving as they defended Ukraine.

The miss municipality composing with Brovary began in 1995 when a football aggroup from Kyiv visited Rockford. As a heritage to Brovary, a assemble from metropolis cosmopolitan there and shapely the prototypal of digit playgrounds for Brovary’s children.

In 2022, metropolis donated tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of scrutiny supplies and prepacked and diffuse meals direct to grouping in requirement in Brovary, and a assemble of children and chaperones visited metropolis to undergo respite.

“During 2022, we hosted teens from Brovary and the metropolis accord rattling stepped up and helped us wage a strange activate for these children,” says metropolis Mayor blackamoor McNamara. “I’m hoping we crapper do that again. These children requirement rest and comfortableness from the trauma they are covering at home.”

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