WeAreBrain - Humanitarian Support for Ukrainian Families

Over the last eight weeks we all have seen and witnessed an increasing amount of attacks on local civilian infrastructure. Those attacks were primarily focused on the power-grid operators across major Ukrainian cities heavily impacting the availability of electricity, mobile networks and central heating. 

With winter coming and temperatures dropping below zero now, we refocused our efforts to setting up central locations for the local community in case of longer power outages. We installed working generators and access points to satellite communication. This enables people to have a heated place to go during power outages, being able to charge electronics devices and if possible follow daily work routines. We would like to extend a big thank you to Olga Ermakova and Dmitry Ermakov who setup and managed all operations onsite.

Last not least, we also continue to expand activities with the WeAreBrain Foundation which we setup back in June. All donations processed through the Steunactie website are directly going to the Foundation and all funds are 100% dedicated to providing ongoing and personalised support on-site.

Dear friends and support partners, 
It's been a bit quiet with updates but nonetheless lots of things have been happening. While continuing our support efforts with the same energy and dedication, we got together with some of our partners to establish the WeAreBrain Foundation which is now officially established, registered and approved by the relevant authorities and institutions. For us this was an important step to further formalise and expand our support activities. The WeAreBrain Foundation will be run by Frederique van Gulik, Michel Pilet and Mario Grunitz.

We will continue to run this fundraiser until the end of July before moving all activities structurally over to the WeAreBrain Foundation.

We would like to thank you all again for the trust and ongoing support. Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions you might have or if you are interested to hear more about the work we will do with the WeAreBrain Foundation. 

Thank you all so much for the continuous support. Today it's a very short but detailed update sharing with you how your donations are helping:

Maybe not entirely surprising, but 45% is going into temporary housing and accommodation both in Ukraine as well as the Netherlands. 

35% is going into all the logistics and transportation.

20% into psychological support, individual medical requirements, and necessary short term support with insurances.

We are proud that 0% of the donations is wasted on any admin or overhead activities. Thanks to you we can 100% focus on providing #personalised #direct and #ongoing support.

Thank you again and please don't hesitate to reach out to us (Elvire and Mario) with any questions you might have.