Helping from the grassroots effort like this is more important than all of the big huge corporate scams used to generate funds.
I'd rather support small people like you who are taking action to help others in the midst of this insane conflict.
Keep up your hard work! The community and the world sees what you're doing.
If you could also source and verify other means that the world could support you guys as well as other real charitable organizations on the ground helping to provide food...
The entire community would definitely love all that information.
I am sure that the crazy scams are taking away vital assistance from those most needing help.
I'm sending up prayers for peace.
It is said that in many shops in Ukraine now it's only possible to buy Polish food. That begs a question - was this food that is sold in the shops actually come from food donations, that were supposed to go for free to people in need? As previously mentioned, also the border guards tends to pillage from the donations. There are many strange things going on in the "charity market".
I've now seen video greetings and photographs of food donated from "our" budget (that is, the money I donated and the money I got from my friends for the "project minibus"), and I also trust the people in the chain, so I know my efforts and the money in our budget has come to good use. And no, the party was definitely not paid for by "our" budget :-)
Keep showing the world your hard work and we will recognize it and be able to help out and support more.
Providing that direct proof sets honest fundraising apart from the scams.
You guys are doing phenomenal and I can't wait to see more of your hard work.
Hopefully you can support others.
One of the main things that we learned during disaster relief was is that you take in donations and set up kitchens and cook people food and ration out what you're giving out as hot meals.
Quite a few of the individuals that I knew would just survive by going to these disaster zones here in the United States and they would cook dinners while putting out a donation bucket.
If you work hard people will donate and you show them the direct results of helping? It is truly phenomenal.
I wish you many blessings and a lot of success in your hard work to help others.
If you another groups that are good solid community organizations need help optimizing your accounts as well as ideas in organization together to help each other out here on the blockchain as well....
Please let me know.
I also believe that serving hot meals may be one of the better options. It's slightly more social and fun to eat together with other people rather than that each family takes home a box of food. If done in a good way, it may prevent food from being resold, it may give more "calories for the buck" as one can buy discounted food in big packages, and if done right less food may be wasted.
On a related note, we have some places in Oslo where it's possible to get food for free - it's meant to be an offer for homeless, but I suppose anyone can just come and say "I'm hungry, can I have some food please?". Some years ago we had a guest living with us for maybe two weeks - I think he he was Ukrainian, a tourist that came with empty pockets. He considered it to be a good idea to "pay back" for the hospitality by bringing food for us from that place. Unfortunately we were not quite able to appreciate it fully. He brought quite a lot of food, most of the products were things we don't use in our daily cooking so it would just take space in our food storage - and quite some of those products were things we simply never would eat - so in the end I think a lot of that food was just going to waste.
Which again circles back to the amazing opportunity that cooking huge meals gives us.
If you have a good selection of spices you can throw all sorts of bulk foods into a stew pot and produce edible nutritious hot food for people that need it.
14 years spent with rainbow family national gatherings showed me quite a amazing way that everybody can pull together.
And the training is really important for disaster relief as well as humanitarian crisis support.
In smallest way possible is to describe how to organize a group of people and feed each other as well as shelter each other and then starting to expand that help to feeding and sheltering even more people.
If you have yourself taken care of and a place to sleep you can then devote your efforts to changing the world.