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Varvara: In the beginning, I worked mainly with Ukrainian refugees who were arriving in the Netherlands (even got noticed by a聽聽)聽 and were looking for accommodation. During the first weeks of the war, there was no official procedure and locations for accepting refugees in the Netherlands but a lot of Ukrainians were already arriving in the country. So, I was a mediator between Dutch families鈥攖hat I was searching on the internet in different Facebook groups mainly鈥攁nd Ukrainian people who were looking for accommodation (I was also finding them in Facebook groups, Telegram evacuation chats or sometimes it were people who I knew from family connections/friends). Out of this, a聽聽came out that I am at the moment only moderating. The group is not super well organized but still, a lot of people find it very useful and it grows slowly but organically.聽

Then I am聽that my relative purchases directly in Ukraine. He posts all of the purchases he makes from our donations on聽. A聽聽promoted this initiative via their network or inside of their companies (i.e. PwC, G-Star). So far, we raised and transferred to him 5000+ Euros.聽

Also, together with another volunteer, Maria we organized聽from Mykolaiv (via Odesa) to Warsaw. We did those buses at the end of February/beginning of March. We just found a bus company that was willing to go to a war zone for money and found sponsors (sometimes the bus was fully covered by a sponsor, sometimes only partially and we had to raise money to cover the bus or some passengers in the bus who could pay, we’re also paying to a driver directly) and in different group chat we were searching for people who want to leave. In total,聽

At the moment I am raising more money for medicine and in contact with other organization that supports refugees here, organizes humanitarian aid collection and delivery to Ukraine, we are thinking of maybe organizing the raise-funding event (e.g., game night, charity dinner – the negotiation process is still ongoing).