Please help Ukrainian Refugee Rebuild in London!
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Hello friends, colleagues and family!
As some of you know, Kelvin and I recently welcomed a young woman from Ukraine to Bowood Road. She has been living with us for about a month and she is all settled in and ready to work.
Irina fled Kharkiv, the only home she has ever known. Her life and business as a tremendously talented and successful makeup artist was shattered by the violent attack from Russia. Her partner has bravely stayed behind to help protect their country from these unlawful intruders (and was honored by President Zelensky yesterday!).
She of course, had to leave everything behind including her makeup kit and supplies (some of which were actually STOLEN by people who were supposedly helping her pack up). Irina is made of hustle and wants to fill her days with work, just as she did in Ukraine. She needs our help to do it!
Many of you have asked what she needs and how you can help. You can see her wishlist here but I think it's easier just to collect funds for her.
You'll see that she is really only asking for things that will help her rebuild her career but she needs other things, too. So many of you have already donated that we have been able to buy almost everything on her list but, as you can imagine, she needs lots of other things and to start saving for her own place as she rebuilds her life here in London.
Thank you to all of you wonderful, generous people who have offered help. I appreciate that many folks are already doing a lot and I am humbly asking you to also consider this very tangible way to help one person.
And special thanks to those of you who have already helped connect Irina to contacts here in London. She's hit the ground running and now just needs the tools to do her very best work (some examples of which you can see below!).
With lots of love and gratitude, D.
PS...oh, and please SHARE SHARE SHARE!
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Darbi Worley
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