Over the first month of the war in Ukraine, your generous donations made it possible for us to to provide direct, ongoing and personalised support to a total of 42 Ukrainian families, a total of almost 100 individuals.

Last week, we have been able to pass our €15.000 donation target as well. A big thank you to our partners from TIP Trailer Services who made that happen with a donation of €2.000. This also meant we were able to further increase our direct donation target from €15.000 to €20.000. 

In addition, we would like to share with you that our business partners and friends from Anywhere365 have doubled our initial funding goal of €15.000 with a direct €15.000 donation of their own. We would like to say a big thank you for this incredible gesture to Hans Kramers, Enrico Karsten and the entire Anywhere365 team in Rotterdam.

Here we go again and today with a brief personal update. 

One of our team members who has been living in the Netherlands for many many years, will finally be able to reunite with some of her elderly family members. She's currently on her way to the Polish border to get them safely to the Netherlands. 

Thank you again for your ongoing support and we'll provide additional updates later in the week.

Apologies for a somewhat delayed update this week. It's been a hectic few days but we're glad to share that we were able to welcome more families already in the Netherlands while we assisted 3 other families to safely cross the border, currently making their way. 

Thanks to your generous support, we so far were able to arrange accommodations for everyone. Additionally, we now have an ongoing daily psychological support line with a native speaker who can assist and check on people individually.

One of our team members in Amsterdam is full time available to arrange any logistics, providing administrative support and generally guiding people with their first orientation in the Netherlands. All of this is possible thanks your help and support which we are eternally grateful for.

Locally in Ukraine, temporary housing for more than 20 families has been arranged in the relatively safe Western part of the country. Generally speaking morale is high. But we just need to be realistic that supplies and provisioning of basic services in the country are becoming increasingly difficult with shortages in shops and supermarket a main concern.

But we continue our mission and will provide more updates over the weekend.

Thank you again ❤️