Tag: Ukraine

ODF’s current activities, related to events beyond our eastern border, focus on three areas, i.e.: ◾️ Refugee Assistance Centre at the Eastern Railway Station in Warsaw ◾️ Homes for Independent Mums from Ukraine in the Mazowieckie Voivodeship ◾️ Equipment for soldiers and humanitarian aid to the civilian population in Ukraine. We have managed to list […]

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 […]

Meet Mila, one of the younger residents of a Home for Independent Mums, who celebrated her 7th birthday last week. Mila is an extremely talented girl — before the outbreak of full-scale war in Ukraine, she was training in artistic gymnastics. After 24 February 2022, Mila and her mum fled the country from Russian shelling […]

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 EU has become one of the first jurisdictions to introduce comprehensive regulations on crypto-assets. Ukraine has announced its ambition to become a “pioneer” in implementing the European version of the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, MiCA. As the third country in the world in terms of cryptocurrency usage, Ukraine has been working on the regulation […]

The lower districts of Kherson — such as Korabelnyi — are still flooded or covered withstinking silt. On the Ukrainian side of the city, the water is receding with each day. On Vasyl Stus Street, which reaches the Kosheva arm of the Dnipro river, people arechecking whether any of their possessions can be saved. The […]

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 […]

The Open Dialogue Foundation delivered “a quarter of a million zloty worth of urgent aid”to Kherson. This city has suffered a major environmental and humanitarian disaster as aresult of a terrorist attack by Russia. The Open Dialogue Foundation helps Ukraine The Open Dialogue Foundation — is an organisation that was established on the initiative ofLyudmyla […]

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 […]

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 […]

Representatives of the Polish international organisation, the Open Dialogue Foundation, have arrived in Kherson with a humanitarian convoy. According to Ukrinform, this was reported by the Kherson Regional State Administration. “Representatives of the Polish international organisation the Open Dialogue Foundation arrived in Kherson with a humanitarian convoy. They delivered motor pumps, life jackets, power generators, […]

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 […]

At the beginning of June 2023, the President of the Open Dialogue Foundation Lyudmyla Kozlovska moderated the panel discussion Bitcoin Is Justice at the annual conference BTC Prague — Europe’s most important event dedicated to Bitcoin. The panellists shared their experiences of financial exclusion and gave examples of how Bitcoin helps to fight oppressive regimes […]

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 […]

Since 24 February 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine, we have been doing everything to support our friends and neighbours. Thanks to your support our aid has included, among others, 83 transports with which we have delivered 74,253 pieces of protective and life-saving equipment! The aid mentioned above included:– 1 118 helmets;– 4 ventilators;– 8 active […]