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Wilmette family’s charity sending medical supplies to Ukraine

Members of the Poylin family and friends pack up medical supplies and other donations at their home in Wilmette on Dec. 31, 2022. Vitaliy Poylin, a surgeon at Northwestern University Hospital, was born and raised in Kiev, Ukraine, and regularly returned to his home country to help train doctors. When the war started, he and his wife Natasha founded Pack the Plane to Ukraine to ship medical supplies to hospitals in his native country. They Poylin's are parishioners at Sts. Joseph Francis Xavier Parish in Wilmette. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)
Dr. Vitaliy Poylin operates on a patient during a mission trip to Ukraine in 2022. (Photo provided)
Dr. Vitaliy Poylin prepares surgical equipment for shipping. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)
Daniel Poylin checks the labels of medical supplies. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)
Andrea and Jordan Taylor sort through donated coats. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)
Natasha Poylin labels a box of coats. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)
Liam Poylin sorts through hats, scarves and gloves donated by several area churches. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)

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