International Solidarity Convoy for Ukraine

🔻 Italian organization Brigate Volontarie per l’Emergenza, in partnership with Ukrainian groups Solidarity Collectives (Колективи Солідарності) and Social Movement (Соціальний рух), are happy to announce the project ‘International Solidarity Convoy’.
In short, international and Ukrainian volunteers, united in a joint solidarity effort, aim to reach critical areas and providing humanitarian aid to vulnerable civilians affected by the war.

🇺‍🇦  In the Eastern and Southern regions of the country the situation on the ground is harsh: besides frequent shelling resulting in civilian casualties and destruction of key infrastructures (water supply, electricity, heating systems, etc.), local population faces a deep and worsening economic crisis too. Several families and individuals lost their jobs, have got no sources of income, therefore are not able to provide for their basic needs. The ones suffering the most are of course the poor, revealing the class dimension of this war, of any war.  

🚚 The International Solidarity Convoy will bring food, hygiene products and heaters to people in need in the Mykolaiv Oblast at the beginning of October.
Recipients of donations will be identified by our fellow Ukrainian activists, who will lead the operation on the ground. Differently from several big NGOs operating in war zones, our de-colonial approach to international cooperation truly places local groups at the heart of decision-making and our projects are built up together since the beginning, as fruit of the creation of bonds of trust, synergy and common vision.

✨ Together with material supplies, our goal is also to share a political position based on the values of direct solidarity, mutual aid and internationalism.
Even if right now the situation is difficult in Ukraine, we are not operating in a political vacuum. On the contrary, politics from below is key in times of war and it it is important to affirm and spread our beliefs across society.

📹 Last but not least, the whole project will be filmed by a professional video maker in order to realize a short documentary.
The media product will be a useful tool for Ukrainian social movements and grassroots political groups who need to be visibilized as much as possible in this difficult period.

🤝 We please ask you - goodhearted individuals, civil society organizations, grassroots political groups, and anyone who want to support the cause - to participate to our crowdfunding in order to sustain the financial cost of the operation and make international solidarity a concrete fact on the ground. 

Solidarity will win!