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The fund manager, the activist and the Ukrainian kids they rescued

A dozen visually impaired children in need or urgent medical care owe a better Christmas to BetaShares’ Alex Vynokur and aid worker Sally Becker, who decided to get them out of war-ravaged Ukraine.

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A group of 13 visually impaired Ukrainian children and their families are enjoying a little Christmas cheer after being rescued in a daring operation deep into the war-ravaged country financed via a charity set up by an Australian fund manager.

The 36-hour round trip from Moldova to the southern Ukrainian cities of Zaprozhzhia and Odessa and back was set up across three time zones by Australian-Ukrainian fund manager Alex Vynokur, founder and chief executive of BetaShares, and lifelong British humanitarian activist Sally Becker.

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Misha Zelinsky is a Fulbright Scholar, a former assistant national secretary Australian Workers' Union, and expert associate at the National Security College.

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