Ukraine Request for donation.

[Wayne]

We work with a couple of manufacturers in Ukraine, and I always ask is there is anything we can do to help. Usually they give a polite answer that they are fine, but this time they made a request. I thought I would repost it here in case others are interested in assisting an individual on the ground there. This is from a trusted source, and only after I asked if there was anything we can do to help.

The folks I have dealt with in Ukraine have ALL been exceptionally nice, hard working and dead nuts honest, otherwise I would not post this. I feel lucky to work with these folks.

This is a copy of the email sent to me:

Hello Wayne.
We are doing well so far and we do not need help.
But I have a friend whom I personally know and who is now at the front protecting our homeland from the russian occupiers.
I want to ask for financial support for him.
He is raising money to buy a DJI drone and has already collected half of the funds. I am linking to his Facebook post.

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If you or your friends, colleagues or acquaintances have the opportunity to help him financially, then both he and I will be very grateful to you.

P.S. Since the beginning of a full-scale war, I, my wife and our company have been supporting our army and animals, and this help is only targeted. That is, to those people whom we know personally or our friends know.
In this case, our help will reach the addressee. I can vouch for for him.

Thanks in advance for any help!

 

[Doc J]

We did our donation ages ago via the Taiwan site: https://www.supportukraine.tw/en/

But, with the greatest possible respect to possible donors/donators, I would like to point out two things:

1. Please do satisfy yourselves that the organization you are donating to is actually going to help and not just use the money to pay a huge staff and for other purposes for which it is not intended by you. The reason I say this is because - for example - Oxfam - a well known charitable orgaization has been investigated on several occasions and each time found to be rotten from the top to the bottom.

https://lawliberty.org/scandal-oxfam-and-the-corruption-of-foreign-aid-theodore-dalrymple/

2. Please do make sure that if the donation is to an individual, then that is really the case and not someone who has been subjugated and forced into allowing thier personal accounts, etc being used by criminals. This type of scam is not only common right now, its probably more normal to encounter scammers that it is real people. They look real, they sound real - even the sometimes strange English seems to be entirely accurate, but these criminals are clever and often force the 'slave' to write and reply to the requests, etc, so even asking verification questions that only they would know is of little use because its the 'slave' who will be answering. However sympathetic you are to the cause, please make no mistake, the track record of the Ukrainian mafia is just as bad as the Italians and Russians.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech...-via-email-phone-and-social-media/9342759002/

Personally I think donation is a very good idea and shows support against someone who will quite possibly emerge as the most cruel dictator the world has ever known.

But - please do beware.

Doc

 

[Doc J]

Guys - I fear that I may have cast a veil of suspicion, darkness and doom over this idea, and that was not my intention. As I have mentioned, personally I think that donating to this cause is a really good idea - in fact we have done so.

However, if you know someone there well and want to make a personal donation, maybe it would be a good idea to do a Skype, Zoom or other video chat with the potential donor first? That might go a long way to pacifying any nagging doubts.

As an example of a "Personal" donation, my old friend of 50 years in the UK has paid to have the wife, son, and daughter of his old Ukrainian friend flown to UK, where they have now been staying in his house, at his expense for over a year. That's way beyond most people's scope of course, but I for one stand in admiration.

Anyway - looks like those Ukrainian guys are kicking Putain's arse - lets hope it continues!

Cheers,

Doc.

 

[Wayne]

No worries what you posted is very accurate. There are a lot of scammers that pop up when money is involved.

I'll add that I was a little reluctant to add this posting in the first place, it is not the sort of thing I normally do. But it breaks my heart to see what is going on over there. No good comes from any of this.

 

[Larry manton]

All comments good stuff. Saddest part is the low level player, including Russians on the ground told this was a brief exercise, tragic.

Read an account of a north Vietnamese soldier chained to his 50 caliber where marines found him, enough sadness to go around, JMO.

And now I'm now driving 2 German cars and buying a German glider, go figure. Just ordinary folk caught in the middle.