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Rose Mason's avatar

I've donated to several fundraisers and charities for Ukraine, including Razom, Saint Javelin, and United24. But the one that is closest to my heart is Good Bread Bakery in Kyiv. Good Bread hires mentally handicapped people to bake bread and other goodies, and takes them not just to liberated towns and villages, but to some of the most dangerous areas of Ukraine. Every day they get into their vans packed with goodies and risk their very physical existence because they believe so strongly in Ukrainian civil society. When they suffer blackouts, they work around them. They always manage to work around obstacles and do what needs to be done. This is from the latest email I received from them: "We were in Zabachmutka, the most dangerous region of Bachmut. For the first time in two months, people got bread there.The only way to Zabachmutka is a crossing through the river Bachmutka. You need literally go by water. That’s why volunteers can’t come here and bring help to people. Moreover, the roads are washed out and only off-roaders have less chance to stick in the mud. You can see our way on the video" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsSbDjkwtuY). Here is their site if anyone wants to donate: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=WUNX7PBP2J6GQ and https://www.patreon.com/goodbread.

Donating to Good Bread helps me to turn my focus away from my own worries so that I can focus on what they've accomplished. And it does feel good to be a part of their community.

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Julian Le Vay's avatar

In a world full of fears and worries we come back again and again to the war in Ukraine because it is there that Evil is most open, most unashamed, most destructive. It must be fought and it must be defeated. Or we are all lost

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