I've been working since 2015 with an organization that's based out of Canada—Hero's Companion—led by Kalyna Kardash. We went to build a service dog program in Ukraine, but the culture there is extremely different so we morphed it into a therapy dog program, with the therapy dogs doing many service dog types of tasks with the veterans. When we first started there, we weren't allowed on any hospital grounds. There is now an MOU with three leading hospitals in Ukraine for treatment there.
On my third visit to Ukraine in 2017, we stopped off in Germany. Through a contact with one of our researchers in B.C., we were able to meet with the head psychiatrist for injured veterans in Germany. We started a dialogue with them and opened the door for them to gain information from us to help with their program. We're still working on building a relationship with them.
The relationship in Ukraine is extremely strong. We have 25 handlers in that country and they're having very good results there.