Let’s take the lead: What we can do NOW to support Ukraine 🇺🇦
Resources and information for you to ACT!
Hey there,
The last couple of days were probably the hardest of my grown up life - and I have been born in the Soviet Union and remember times when we did not have food to buy in shops any longer and when tanks rolled through Moscow in 1991. It’s been hard - not because I am hungry, in danger or worse… It’s been hard because it’s impossible to describe the emotions when you see Russian troops marching to kill people that you consider brothers and sisters, know as friends. People that share big parts of your culture and history. People that are leading the way when it comes to establishing a democracy in an Eastern European country. Way to go, Ukraine 🇺🇦
It’s also hard because many of us know people in Russia who are believing that Putin is “saving people” with this war, for some opposing this war means going against their families, their loved ones and risking their lives protesting on the streets of Russia.
I fight tears as I write this, because this war in Ukraine is not only a disaster for the people of Ukraine, who are now pushed out of their own country, risking and losing lives and loved ones, but it’s a horror scenario for Europe, the whole western world and our democracy.
As a Russian-born, that grew up in Germany, it meant the world to me to hear Germany’s commitment to defending democracy and supporting Ukraine. It also scares me more than anything ever before to think about what consequences this may have. But if we don’t fight for what we believe in, what are we? What’s left of us? This is why I am calling on each of you to help and support Ukraine, to help mitigate the disastrous impact of this war on Ukraine’s people, so speak up and use your right to demonstrate and make it clear where you stand.
#takethelead
This is how you can help 🇺🇦
👉 Real ways you can help Ukraine as a foreigner
In a gist: the most comprehensive and structured overview of it all: donations, actions to take etc.
In a gist: The biggest impediments & blockers to getting out of the crisis and what you can do to remove them and help
👉 Donate to NBU - Special Account to Raise Money for Ukraine’s Armed Forces
In a gist: Donate to the Ukraine’s Armed Forces, straight forward
In a gist: Example of HR leaders responding, resources how to help, donation info etc.
In a gist: A good overview of places to donate and overall info
👉 Keep Ukraine’s media going, organized Jakub Parusinski
In a gist: Help UA’s journalists and media continue to operate by donating
For EU residents:
In a gist: A website for people that are looking for shelters
👉 Wunderflats Initiative to connect places of shelter with Ukranian refugees
In a gist: Sign up there if you have a room or place to spare to accommodate people from Ukraine in Germany
👉 Telegram Group for people in Berlin helping Ukrainian refugees
In a gist: If you join this, you’ll know how you can help right away if you are in Berlin
Things worth reading & watching 🕊
People to follow 🙋♀️
Volodimir Zelenskyy - President of Ukraine, currently in Ukraine
Wladimir Klitschko - Former professional boxer and world champion, author and thought leader from Ukraine, currently in Ukraine
Andrew Stetsenko - HR tech entrepreneur, founder of Relocate.me, currently in Ukraine
Mykhailo Fedorov - Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, responsible for getting Starlink active in UA, currently in Ukraine
Mike Sapiton - Deputy Editor-in-Chief at Forbes Ukraine, currently in Ukraine
Thomas C Theiner - Former Italian Army, current film industry executive from Kyiv/Vienna/Los Angeles, currently not in Ukraine
I truly hope that we can help end this situation soon and then I’ll go back to sharing resources for leaders, for now: stay safe everyone and be supportive and kind to each other and stay put.
Stay safe,
Darja
Jesus Christ, this is pathetic I got this link through an app that I downloaded, since my app has gone political? I mean, the app that I downloaded it’s a Fitness app. Oh my God.
From all my heart Iam felling whit your your country and fight fore freedom! In this I know Iam more than not along the hole world are looking on what's happening down there ! And I can almost promise that the world NATO will not leve whit the thing puttin are so stupid to think he can get true whit , whit out the hold wold what sings in this so mush feelings that no body will turn there back to it ! INSTAT the hole world will stands whit urkine and simply destroying him and hole Russians if he in some way are so seek in his power minded head that he don't see that admidy ! All my love for Ukrainian the family's down there and the breve hearted man's whit so much Horner in them that the will send there family away stay and fight more Horner hearted that i in my 47 years had ever seen! So much I almost whish I was down there standing right beside thous So much honer fulled breve hearted men Amen