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Help Ukrainian Refugees in Rotterdam

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Hi everyone!
UPDATE:
We found a great palce, and we need to have 10 000 till 1st August to be able to begin our full-scale work.
In Hub, we will have then from 1st September:
1. Meeting place for Ukrainians and Dutchies,
2. Ukrainian art school
3. Language courses for adults and kids (8 courses).
4. Literature club with Ukrainian language mastering course.
5. Music and art studios for musicians and artists - refugees.
6. Small event place for different needs of refugees.
7. Info point.
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We are Dakh - the volunteer group that runs the Rotterdam Ukrainian hub.
We help temporarily displaced Ukrainian people find at least their homes and pieces in Rotterdam.
Since the 2nd day of the way, we built a useful online informational platform, teamed up with Rotterdams library, began different activities for Ukrainians, and collected and gave away more than 300 boxes of aids, such as clothing and meds sanitary, and food.
And everything is just in 1 month.
Now we have grown into a great team of volunteers - refugees and volunteers Roterdammers, and we would love to help more, so this money we are collecting for:
  • To pay for the multifunctional space where we plan to host a short period of people from Ukraine until we will not find longer-term housing. Now we are negotiating for the place which costs 1300 euro per month plus GWE around 110 eur per month in total it will cost 16.920 euros for a year (we would like to be secured that we have such funds for a year).
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  • Make a kitchen in this space where we could cook with volunteers food for refugees and manage deliveries and a food corner.
  •  It will be included in the rent, but we would need around 10.000 for the pro kitchen with appliances. 
  • Pay at least some extra money to volunteers - refugees for their work. Currently, we have 12 of them to 163 euros per month in a total of 23.472 Euro
  • To have some money for food products and emergency aids is challenging to find and deliver to people quickly. For example, a special kids formula which we had a shortage recently. These costs we could fundraise as physical aids
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  • To organise a kid's corner in this space, we would like to create.
In total with 1st three goals we would need 50.392 at least.
 
Why it's so important? Currently our organisation DAKH - Ukrainina hub in Rotterdam is located in my music school, where we are combining lessons and volunteer work. And we faced the problem that we are getting more and more refuggess in our building. Having a separate place for only volunteer work, could help many more people! City Counsil works hard with managing a basic things for people such opening BSN number, setting new living spaces for people, but there is a huge work, which they can't do, such community creation and support, centralised community place for educational and coaching programs or for kids extra activities and thats what we are "backing up" in Dakh.

Currently, we found two places in Rotterdam which potentially could work for us, and we are negotiation with the owners, but anyway it requires investments. We also, tried to cooperate with city Counsil and or anti-kraak to reduce costs, but so far none of them are having available properties.

We hope you will help us make Ukrianina people's lives in Rotterdam a bit better and more comfortable.
Thank you!

P/S, please also subscribe to our newsletter at the website to see the results, announcements and reports!
With Ukraine in Rotterdam in our hearts!
And, you should know that we began this initiative as private persons but when we found out that we are now helping to more than 500 people we decided that it's time to found the "stichting". We started the legal process and at the 1st week of May we would be officially and legally as public organisation

Kateryna and team of DAKH
 
Instagram: @dakh_ro

Organizer

Kateryna Vinitskyi
Organizer
Rotterdam

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