We are a diverse, connected body of global citizens who focus on targeted humanitarian needs throughout the stages of conflict, disaster, and society building. We build highly-responsive networks and have boots on the ground in government, education, health care and medicine, community organizations, finance, military, and technology.

With detailed assessments, we identify the most urgent needs with the largest potential impact. Then, we deliver targeted humanitarian support. We apply frameworks of program development and cognitive psychology to create flexible systems where humans and societies in crisis can experience self-efficacy and empowerment. We promote sustainable development for the purpose of enabling people to better their lives both immediately, and in the longer-term.  

Given the current violent Russian invasion that began on February 24, 2022, we have identified three current critical areas for humanitarian aid for Ukrainian communities:

1. 1. 1. Education

      2. Women, children, and families (including furry family members)

      3. Custom designed defensive tactical and medical equipment for Ukrainian Defenders.   

The ongoing humanitarian crises in Ukraine have struck me deeply, as I lived and worked in Ukraine when I served in the United States Peace Corps as a Teacher of English as Foreign Language. My former students, teachers, and colleagues cared for me for two years, taught me their languages and culture, and now I have the unique capacity to apply what they developed in me to support their survival. 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 also have deep, direct relationships with American manufacturers so that we can design and source reliable and top-quality resources for acute Ukrainian needs. We forge our connections with expertise in developmental psychology, thereby delivering humanitarian aid in a model that promotes individual and social change in crisis.

We excel in intensely challenging circumstances, adapting our approach to meet the needs of local communities experiencing crisis. Our collaborators are flexible and passionate. 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 find out precisely how to best support Ukrainian communities and we expend funds and supplies to match their needs. 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.

Our proven, scalable grassroots approaches allow us to give directly to the people with the most urgent needs. We have established direct deposit structures with reliable community organizations in Central Ukraine, and have delivered aid in our three areas of focus to Central Ukraine and then to the front lines of the invasion. We successfully tracked these shipments in real time. We receive detailed, ongoing feedback from our Ukrainian colleagues and we are poised to continue to provide finely-tuned humanitarian aid during war to support Ukrainians to preserve their history, culture, language, identity, and lives. Our work is Ukrainian-driven, American-facilitated.

How does our dynamic and responsive giving model work? We are people giving directly to people. We continually engage in core practices that build and reinforce our efficacy:

• • • We listen
    • We learn
    • We adjust
    • We share power
    • We empower

We know our Ukrainians colleagues personally- we know their stories, their families, and their values. No humanitarian need is too small, too large, or too far when you know the people who need your help. We use our personal connections to build a tight global network that will support Ukrainians in crisis and promote their national recovery.

Your donations will go directly to displaced persons, refugees, and elderly sheltering in place, children and teachers in educational institutions, and Defenders holding the front line of democracy and sovereignty. Donate now to help now.

Our collaborators are passionate, flexible, honest, and expert in their area. If this is you, then we want to work with you in our Global Community Corps. Contact us to find out more. Collaborate now to help now.