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Carlton mccoy. and this week s cnn hero is deanna per se. porn only a year apart, they call themselves twins, but there was only one difference between them. angel has down syndrome, and when she went off to college, she saw how different their lives would be, so deanna founded a college for people just like her sister. hi, everybody. college of adaptive arts is a collegiate experience for adults with special needs with all different abilities who historically haven t had access to education. they get the same access to every class that any college student can select. reaching towards the sun. ....
Difficult decision to either build a new life abroad, or clutch what s left of their country. cnn s matt rivers has our report. reporter: the convoy gets loaded up several times a week. workers with hungarian baptist aid making the several hour drive from budapest. destination, western ukraine. today, they are headed to a quaint town just across the border that s become a magnet for ukrainians fleeing the war. upon arrival, supplies unloaded by some of the kids staying at this shelter, what used to be a school. inside classrooms, bunkbeds replace desks and photos of former students hang on the wall above the tiny shoes of the kids staying in the room today, like little yava and her mom deanna. they fled kyiv a few weeks ago, leaving behind her husband to fight the russians. she says we stood there and cried at the train station. my daughter was so mad at him, ....
And it certainly requires different kind of hosting. reporter: for hungarian baptist aid, more refugees means more need for everything else, including helping hands. it s not really like a war. for me, i feel like it s a genocide of ukrainians. reporter: pharmacist daniel came to help from philadelphia. the son of ukrainian immigrants. people come together and come to the country and try to help out, something actually gets done. reporter: it is definitely the spirit at a nearby church where a tiny volunteer operation has ramped up to hundreds of meals served every day as refugees decide to stay long-term. the reasons can vary. everything from hope that the ukrainian army will prevail, to simply not wanting to live in a foreign country. for deanna back at the school, the reason to not flee to neighboring hungary was simple. she says we feel like we re closer, somehow closer to my husband. i will go back the moment it s safe for my children. ....
And it certainly requires different kind of hosting. reporter: for hungarian baptist aid more refugees means more aid for everything else, including helping hands. it is not a war. for me i feel like it is a genocide of ukrainians. reporter: pharmacist daniel came to help from philadelphia. the son of ukrainian migrants. if people come together and come to the country and try to help out, something gets done. reporter: it is a spirit at a nearby church where a tiny volunteer operation has ramped up to hundreds of meals served every day as refugees decide to stay long-term. the reasons could vary. everything from hope that the ukrainian army will prevail, to simply not wanting to live in a foreign country. for deanna, back at the school, the reason to not flee to nabing hungary was simple. we feel like we re closer, somehow closer to my husband. i will go back the moment it s ....
Many are fleeing to western ukraine and trying to get help from hungary as well. as cnn s matt rivers reports. reporter: the convoy gets loaded up several times a week. workers with hungarian baptist aid making the several hour drive from budapest, destination western ukraine. today they re headed to a quaint town just across the border that has become a magnet for ukrainians fleeing the war. upon arrival, supplies unloaded by the kids staying at shelter, what used to be a school. inside of classrooms, bunkbeds replace decks and photos of former students hang on the wall above the tiny shoes of the kidding staying in the room today. like little yava and her mom deanna. they fled kyiv a few weeks ago leaving behind her husband to fight the russians. she said we stood there and cried at the train station. ....