by Kevin | Mar 4, 2023 | Allgemein
In the first eight months after Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, 2.4 million Ukrainians lost their jobs. 33% unemployment is a problem for 2.4 million families. How dire of a problem is it, exactly? We once evacuated a Bakhmut family–everyone but the...
by Jodie | Jan 27, 2023 | Allgemein, Response
Some evacuations go smoothly and easily, others don’t. The team consisting of Dima (team lead and navigator), Ori (photographer and second driver) and Jodie (driver) was in the process of evacuating people in northern Bakhmut. They knew that this place is dangerous...
by Jodie | Jan 25, 2023 | Allgemein, Response
Artillery every day. Daily sounds of Mortars. Soldiers everywhere. Machine guns. Grenades. In eastern Bakhmut, on the other side of the river, the fighting rages harder than elsewhere in the city. Gray zone – mortal danger. On the outskirts of the city is...
by Jodie | Jan 17, 2023 | Allgemein, Response
Loneliness is painful. Loneliness in war is almost unbearable. The small town of Siversk in the Donetsk Region has been under the heaviest shelling for a long time. There are still Russian offensives in which Siversk is the target of Russian forces.Destroyed houses,...
by Jodie | Jan 12, 2023 | Allgemein
Even if you don’t want to believe it: The embattled areas also have people who want to stay there. The reasons for this are varied. Some are afraid of fleeing. Others have never been elsewhere and are worried that they will not be able to integrate. Still others...
by Jodie | Nov 16, 2022 | Allgemein, Art Camp
Childhood in a war zone – it is hard to imagine what traumas remain. This summer our teams evacuated many children: from Sievierodonetsk, Lysychansk, Bachmut and many other hotspots of fighting. We have seen the conditions in which the little ones had to...