USEFUL RESOURCES on UKRAINE (primarily for donations)
Statement from the AATIA Board of Directors:
As the AATIA Board of Directors, we have also been discussing the situation in Ukraine, and we are getting increasingly dismayed and angry about what’s happening there. If we were in Europe, we would have joined in on the admirable actions of the European T&I associations to help and support our colleagues in Ukraine. But over here, we feel remote from everything and rather helpless. We are a small organization without a chapter for Slavic languages, and to our knowledge, the city of Austin does not have any twinning or other partnership arrangements with Ukraine, so all we can do is to share a list of organizations that help Ukrainian refugees. We encourage our members to support them.
The following list of organizations was compiled by Dr. Roman Ivashkiv and shared with us by Joyce Tolliver, the Director of the Program in Translation & Interpreting Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. The list includes Ukrainian and international charities and resources for those who are interested in donating but may not necessarily have the time to do research on their options.
Among other things, Dr. Ivashkiv is a Senior Lecturer in Slavic Languages and Literatures and in Translation Studies. He is also a translator who—together with the Canadian poet and translator of verse Erín Moure—has translated and published a collection of poems by Yuri Izdryk (Smokes). Izdryk is an immensely popular and poet and writer in Ukraine.
The RETURN ALIVE FOUNDATION
https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate/
(Note from Dr. Ivashkiv: I’ve tried this Kyiv-based charity several times and it was the easiest to use. Like the NBU site they have info on SWIFT codes and accounts, but they require setting up payees through your bank accounts, etc., etc. The easiest way to donate to this charity was via Fondy.eu: you only need a credit card, preferably one that sends a text message with a code for purchase verification. If yours doesn’t, call your card provider and ask them not to block your transaction (or to clear it if you went ahead and it’s pending).
Special Account to Raise Funds for Ukraine’s Armed Forces by the NBU (National Bank of Ukraine)
https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-spetsrahunok-dlya-zboru-koshtiv-na-potrebi-armiyi
(Note from Dr. Ivashkiv: special accounts (in different currencies) of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU, like the US Dpt of Treasury) for the Ukrainian Armed Forces / [I tried it in several different ways, and it worked but wasn’t always very straightforward (e.g., you have to go through your bank, add a payee, which will then need to be verified, and take a few more extra steps), but it’s definitely a very credible source.)
Extensive Lists with Links to Various Resources (UKR media, social media accounts)
https://linktr.ee/voiceforukraine
https://linktr.ee/RazomForUkraine
Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund by Global Giving
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
https://donate.unhcr.org/int/en/general
A Polish Charity (where many refugees from Ukraine are going)
United Ukrainian American Relief Committee, Inc (aid to victims of war in Ukraine / via GoFundMe)
NPR (a list of trusted international organizations from the National Public Radio)
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/25/1082992947/ukraine-support-help
NBC (list of credible organizations from NBC (including, Catholic Relief Services, Direct Relief, Global Giving, International Rescue Committee, and Save the Children)
https://www.nbc15.com/2022/02/25/heres-how-donate-credibly-ukraine-relief-organizations/
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