dmatthews
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Thanks for the nod mate!
Ugly, but I feel the need to try... Ukraine...
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Cousin Eddie's cousin
I googled “donations Ukrainian” and one of the links was Forbes.com. They, in turn, listed links of various legit charities for donations. I selected “Ukrainian Red Cross,” and made a donation. This is not an endorsement for that particular charity. I just hope my contribution will help those poor souls.
dmatthews
Dave's not here
We once did a benefit gig for Haiti.
We had the tip jar out, matched it, and sent it to Red Cross who matched it again. Four grand got there.
veinbuster
Zombie Three, DFZ
I also donated via Red Cross.
Yes, hope. Love the line in Shawshank Redemption:
Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.
Like many above, I have given, and will continue to give, through my church. They are using 100% of the donations they get to buy life sustaining things and shipping them to Ukraine (and Poland for the refugees). They have already been on the ground there for weeks.
dmatthews
Dave's not here
It's a thing of beauty!
dmatthews
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Just wanted to say thank you.
Everybody here is a legend.
Everybody here is a legend.
Tom Bradovich
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Dave, thanks for starting this thread and to all here who are donating in whatever way they can. The Ukrainian Red Cross route seemed the best route for me, but any help through any legit agency is great. Absolutely heartbreaking to see what the Ukrainian citizens are having to endure.
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yeah, you guys are cool all the time, but I have to say, when it really matters most, you guys are really cool.
Black-Viper75
Just Passing Through
This is a great thing you are doing. I'm here proudly trying to do my part at the moment. The 5* star hotel I work at is offering free shelter and food to refugees from Ukraine. We have a few at the moment. As you would expect they are all only elderly, women and children. All the males between 16- 65 ( if I'm not mistaken ) must remain in the Ukraine to fight. They don't speak anything other than Ukrainian. I communicate with them using Google translate and have made an effort to learn a few words in their language in the hope that this may give them a little bit of comfort. It is truly a heartbreaking situation what these people and their country is going through.
dmatthews
Dave's not here
Update...
We've passed the $10K mark with all the people that we know in our business.
This is brilliant.
Thanks again to all you legends!
We've passed the $10K mark with all the people that we know in our business.
This is brilliant.
Thanks again to all you legends!
I have two PRS friends in Poland, Mike and Art. Would you be one of them? If so I'm glad your here. If not, welcome new guy. You're doing a great service.
Black-Viper75
Just Passing Through
Thank you. I'm not Mike or Art from Poland. I'm in Northern Greece.
sergiodeblanc
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I got suckered into this awful Pay to Win mobile game over Covid, and there’s a pile of Russian players. It’s been interesting seeing their reactions over the course of the last couple weeks.
They most certainly aren’t getting the same news as we are.
They most certainly aren’t getting the same news as we are.
dmatthews
Dave's not here
I think there were 2 or 3 independent news outlets, and they were all forced to shut down over the last 3 weeks.
sergiodeblanc
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Yeah, and they’re all buying Chinese phones now to get around the whole Visa/MC and AppStore thing.
Daryl Jones
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The outpouring of support is beyond gratifying to see. I live in an area with a very large Ukrainian population and have already got on board with several support funds. Full marks for doing this.
Tucson Thump
Mint Heavy Relic
Earlier we had donated to Doctors Without Borders. Today we saw that Google was matching donations so we donated to UNICEF and World Food Program. I am in touch with some coders in Kyiv that make a photo program that I use, so I've contacted them to give them a bundle of sky images that I have so that they can package them up in their software store and get the donated income to use for charity work on the ground there in the city. I haven't heard back yet, and if I don't I'll do something else through my son's coder contacts there.
Watching Putin threaten other Russians reminds me of Voltaire's comment that "those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities".
Watching Putin threaten other Russians reminds me of Voltaire's comment that "those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities".
Gurdybloke
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Not sure if anyone if anyone knows about this but Andertons here in the UK are holding a raffle to win a Strat in the colours of the Ukranian flag. Tickets are £5 (or whatever the exchange rate is). They've raised over £34k for the Red Cross Ukraine Appeal so far. Sorry I can't post the link but please head over to their site if you'd like to support this.
