I generally try to avoid political content on this platform. However, the tragedy in Ukraine continues, with over 10 million people displaced internally and in dire need of help.
SHELTER UKRAINE
Shelter Ukraine provides material and medical support on the ground in Ukraine. The effectiveness of relatively small teams but very close to those in need, is outstanding.
Shelter Ukraine is an initiative governed by established NGOs, focused on helping internally displaced Ukrainians by raising resources and creating shelters.
The initiative is led by the Valores Foundation (Poland), which is responsible for fundraising, together with local Ukrainian organizations: SILab Ukraine, Teple Misto, and VPLYV Fund, which oversee the distribution and utilization of resources in areas affected by war.
TRANSPARENCY
All funding collected by Valores will be distributed to SILab Ukraine, which is cooperating with the VPLYV Fund and Teple Misto, whose operations are divided by regions. They distribute funding locally, based on direct grant applications from the organizers of shelters. Once the funding is allocated and sent, the shelter organizers report back on expenditures.
The process is 100% transparent, and 100% of your donation goes to those in need.
There are zero administrative costs. The Poland-based team is working strictly pro bono. The Ukraine-based team’s costs have been covered by earlier grants and donations.
INVOLVEMENT
As the people of Ukraine heroically fight the occupying forces, Poland, has set itself up for charitable work. Through an unprecedented scale of engagement by non-government organizations, thousands of volunteers, and hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens, Poland has become the center of organizing aid to its neighbor and to the people who were forced to flee.
But most aid is – so far – directed either at the incoming refugees or at supplying those directly under attack with necessities and medicines.
The rapidly growing number of internally displaced Ukrainians is now a developing humanitarian crisis that begs for action. SILab Ukraine and other Ukrainian social organizations have partnered with Valores to set up fundraising activities. These are aimed directly at immediate aid, in order to create shelters for people in the safer parts of Ukraine, and to support with food and medical assistance, those that needed to be evacuated, or are on their way to safer locations.
DONATE
You can find out more (and donate) here.
