School’s back for residents of Homes for Independent Mums

School’s back for residents of Homes for Independent Mums

September marks the end of summer holidays and the start of the school year. This is a big event for our youngest resident at the Home for Independent Mums from Ukraine. Schools and kindergartens always pose new challenges for kids. However, we believe that Anastasiia, Oleksandr, Mila, Ivan and Oleg will meet them without much […]

Homes for Independent Mums make dreams come true: Victoria’s story

Homes for Independent Mums make dreams come true: Victoria’s story

Meet Victoria, a resident of one of the Homes for Independent Mums from Ukraine. In Dnipro, where she comes from, she was working as the director of a real-estate agency. After the outbreak of full-scale war, she and her daughter came to Poland. From the very beginning, she set herself the goal of achieving in […]

The Flood Unleashed After the Attack on Nova Kakhovka. Polish Humanitarian Mission Reached the Flooded Areas. ‘It’s been a shock’.

The Flood Unleashed After the Attack on Nova Kakhovka. Polish Humanitarian Mission Reached the Flooded Areas. ‘It’s been a shock’.

The convoy carried pumps, power generators, rafts, jacket vests, headlamps. “Andwater purification tablets so that the residents can drink water,” Martin Mycielski ofthe Open Dialogue Foundation told OKO.press. The Warsaw Municipal Council,including the Law and Justice (PiS) club, has unanimously donated PLN 100 000 forequipment for Kherson. THE FIRST Polish humanitarian mission left for Kherson after […]

Summary of a humanitarian aid mission to Kherson (16-20 June 2023)

Summary of a humanitarian aid mission to Kherson (16-20 June 2023)

As a result of the Russian terrorist attack, Ukraine has experienced the most severe environmental and humanitarian disaster in decades. On Tuesday, 6 June, at 02:50 a.m., the Russian army blasted the Nova Kakhovka Dam in Kherson region. The water flooded and destroyed many villages and towns located in the lower sections of the Dnipro […]

Humanitarian aid from Poland to Kherson residents

Humanitarian aid from Poland to Kherson residents

Representatives of the Polish international organisation Open Dialogue Foundationarrived in Kherson with a humanitarian convoy from Poland. “Motor pumps, life jackets, power generators, portable batteries, drinking water, waterpurification tablets, medicines, waterproof suits, life rafts and many other items weredelivered to the city”, the Kherson regional military administration reported on social media. Reportedly, the participants of […]

Digital Currency Conference: Humanitarian Face of Bitcoin

Digital Currency Conference: Humanitarian Face of Bitcoin

The Open Dialogue Foundation (ODF) was invited to the May 2023 Digital Currency Conference (DCC) in Mexico City, a high-profile gathering for central bankers, bankers, and the financial services industry, to discuss the role of digital currency in times of crisis and humanitarian aid. ODF’s Chief Advocacy Officer, Katarzyna Szczypska, argued in her closing keynote […]

Summary of the humanitarian mission to the Avdiivka region, 27 April-3 May 2023

Summary of the humanitarian mission to the Avdiivka region, 27 April-3 May 2023

At the turn of April and May 2023 we set off on our third humanitarian mission to the very frontline of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Having first been to Kupiansk/Kherson and Bakhmut, this time we brought aid as far as to the vicinity of Avdiivka where Ukrainians now fight the heaviest battles against the Russian aggressor.  Our […]

Donetsk: Polish benefactors provide Avdiivka residents with fire extinguishers

Donetsk: Polish benefactors provide Avdiivka residents with fire extinguishers

Volunteers from the Polish charity Open Dialogue Foundation in Warsaw have donated 200 fire extinguishers to the Avdiivka front-line community. As a result of continuous enemy strikes, Avdiivka is gradually turning into ashes. The Russian occupants are bombarding residential areas and civilian infrastructure with “Grad” missiles, heavy artillery and other missile attacks. As a consequence, […]

The Beneficiaries of Russia’s War Against Ukraine. How the Nazarbayev-Tokayev Regime is Helping Putin

The Beneficiaries of Russia’s War Against Ukraine. How the Nazarbayev-Tokayev Regime is Helping Putin

Executive summary In 2022 and 2023, the Kazakhstani authorities have repeatedly convinced the international community of their alleged commitment to “preventing the use of the Kazakhstani territory to bypass sanctions”. “Appropriate measures” have been adopted (such as the creation of a “list of sanctioned goods”, the signing of a law “on the control of specific […]

Artistic accomplishments of our charge from the Home for Independent Mums

Artistic accomplishments of our charge from the Home for Independent Mums

It is time to mention the artistic accomplishments of a resident of one of our Homes for Independent Mums. The daughter of our residents, named Antonina, is making her dreams come true during her time in Poland: she wants to continue her education in an art school, and in the future, she plans to go […]

Preparations for Easter at the Homes for Independent Mums

Preparations for Easter at the Homes for Independent Mums

We have received photos of the preparations for Easter from one of the Homes for Independent Mums from Ukraine that we run. The children and their mothers spent this time in a great atmosphere of creativity, illustrated by their smiling faces. Decorating Easter eggs and baking muffins with colourful sprinkles is undoubtedly fun, and not […]

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