Clarendon Hills girls raise over $17K for UNICEF selling bracelets to help Ukraine

Calling themselves the Giving Women, they’re making bracelets within the colours of the Ukrainian flag to promote, and sending their income to UNICEF.

“We use rubber bands to make bracelets,” Rosie Abramson mentioned.

“We have remodeled 400 altogether,” Chloe Feeney added.

“We have been going to offer it to the kids’s hospital after which our mothers and household advised us there was a battle taking place, so we began elevating cash for Ukraine,” mentioned Savannah Wiklund.

Listening to the ache of an in depth household good friend, who’s Ukrainian, made their trigger private.

“Actually irritating for me and I did not wish to see her upset,” Abramson mentioned.

Solely seven years previous, the plight of battle is not misplaced on them whilst they lovingly chatter and thread rubber bands by the 1000’s.

“They should not be attacking kids,” mentioned Abramson. “They do not do something. You’ve got already taken relations of their lives and taking others too… it is simply so irritating.”

“I take into consideration how unhappy the youngsters are that they are leaving their dwelling and having children and having to depart their relations behind,” Feeney mentioned.

In only a week, this startup bracelet operation has raised greater than $17,000 that has already gone to UNICEF’s work on the bottom in Ukraine and on the borders.