Ukrainians raise the national flag on Khreshchiatik Street, Kyiv, on Independence Day, Vanderberg, 2011
DYNAMIC & RESPONSIVE
HUMANITARIAN AID MODEL
We work directly with Ukrainians, in their languages, using culturally-responsive approaches, to understand their most urgent needs in real time.
We understand Ukrainian culture and social structures, and the evolving approaches that intermingle when history overlays oppression, communism, Russification, corruption, independence, and emerging democracy.
We excel in intensely challenging circumstances, adapting our approach to meet the needs of local communities experiencing crisis. Our decades of relationships throughout Ukraine enable us to engage in dynamic and responsive needs assessment, which we extend into a dynamic and responsive giving model.
We believe that those closest to the pain should be closest to the power (Ayanna Pressley), so we share our resources and decision-making with Ukrainians.
We source reliable and top-quality resources for acute Ukrainian needs, those basic and necessary for survival, as well as approaches grounded in developmental psychology, deemed necessary to promote individual and social change in crisis. We deliberately create the circumstances that foster self-efficacy for Ukrainians living in war.
We have 3 rules for our work:
1) No lying
2) No stealing
3) No fake products.
This may seem a low bar, but Ukraine in crisis is experiencing an influx of corruption, breakdown in previous infrastructure, gouging, and extortion. The majority of aid organizations cannot reliably deliver supplies to the “hot spots” of Ukraine, while we have established three reliable supply chains to put aid directly into the hands of the intended recipients.
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Hours spent in direct educational support of Ukrainian students and teachers
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Refugee/displaced families assisted
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Tourniquets sent to the Front Lines