Will Mankins

Hello, my name is Will Mankins. I am an 8th grader at LREI and I am in the Humanitarian Aid Social Justice Group. Humanitarian Aid has been a issue and a tactic used since the massacre of World War One. I hope to share more about this topic and help save lives by doing so, creating change in this world.

Documentary: The White Helmets

Theo and I watched a documentary called The White Helmets. It is about a humanitarian aid group that worked during the Syrian civil war. About 1,200 of them worked at 120 different locations. Throughout the war, they saved about 53,000 people, including 14,000 children. While doing this job, they lost about 130 different White Helmets. Watching this documentary has truly shown me how many people can be saved even with so few people over just about a decade. I have learned that just a couple of dollars can save thousands of lives.

Emily Thomas: A High-School Teacher

Theo and I interviewed Emily Thomas, a high school teacher at LREI about our topic Humanitarian Aid. Emily has worked with a group called Engine quite a lot, Engine is a language-help organization that helps Ukrainians all around the world with help and supplies as well as helping them learn other languages so they can live in other countries. Something that I learned was about how certain people think about war in different ways, such as how a student of hers, as well as a buddy of hers in Poland from Engine, said that people actually in a war-famished country don’t think as strongly about war and how they said it’s not “world ending.”