This is the story of five-year-old Lina, the seventh child of a family of eight children, who is caught between the frontlines of free Kherson and Russian occupied Kherson. Lina's mom will take you through a rollercoaster of emotions from a spine-chilling rescue, taking the family deep into Russia to reaching free Ukraine. There they strive for a normal life - only to discover that this brutal war has left deep scars on Lina.

Trailer: https://myumi.ch/VVXZM

Ambassador Craig L. Johnstone, Co-Founder of The Humanity Funds, served in Vietnam from 1965-1970 and was the sixth Ambassador to Algeria. In 2007, he served as the UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees. He continues to pursue his passion for helping refugees and people affected by war by co-founding the Humanity Funds, a nonprofit dedicated to helping women and children in conflict zones.

Nathaniel A. Raymond is Executive Director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) and a Lecturer in the Department of the Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases (EMD) at YSPH. He was formerly a Lecturer of Global Affairs at the Jackson School for Global Affairs from 2018 - 2022. His research interests focus on the health implications of forced displacement; methodologies for the assessment of large-scale disasters, including pandemics; and the human rights and human security implications of information communication technologies (ICTs) for vulnerable populations, particularly in the context of armed conflict. Previously, he was the founding Director of the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health from 2012 – 2018. From 2010 to 2012, he was Director of Operations for the George Clooney-founded Satellite Sentinel Project at HHI, which utilized high resolution satellite imagery to detect and document attacks on civilians in Sudan and South Sudan.

Danielle Leavitt, WCEE Postdoctoral Fellow, 2025-27 is a historian of modern Ukraine and the Soviet Union, with a particular interest in Russian and Ukrainian relations, human age, generation, and gender. Her work examines the function of generation and human age in Soviet history and works to insert the stories of underrepresented populations, such as the elderly and women, into consequential debates about stagnation, cultural life, Soviet collapse, post-Soviet economic and political development, and the Russo-Ukrainian war.

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