What a Difference a Day Makes: 'The war was going on, but 90% of people were interested in peace'

Joe Mason, CEO of intellectual-disability charity WALK, discusses the decision to respond to the Russian invasion of Ukraine with disability aid

Joe Mason, CEO OF WALK, which supports people with intellectual disabilities, in Walkinstown, Dublin.

I’d love to say it happened by grand design but really it was by accident. We got the email on a Saturday evening, a few weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine.

I’ve worked in the intellectual disability area all my life — I’ve been with intellectual disability charity WALK since 1996.