that would be https://www.patreon.com/savelife_in_ua
(Ukrainian IT community already raised around $100k in a last few days)
(Ukrainian IT community already raised around $100k in a last few days)
[1] - https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=B0264747CBB7E393!1...
The membership levels are also.. Disturbing? If I select "Projectile" membership (with a picture of a grenade missile or something) it says "You started saving lives!". All memberships are munition for weapons ("Bullet", "Projectile", "Bomb" and "Missile"), not exactly something you associate with "Saving lives".
Seems to be run by Come Back Alive Foundation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Back_Alive) but I can't actually verify that they link to the Patreon from their website (https://savelife.in.ua) as it seems to be offline right now.
Not to say it's sketchy to use Patreon for something of that importance, since Patreon has a reputation of pulling funding for organizations by now.
Yeah, it feels strange to have these images. There are already discussions to change them in Ukrainian community because it's not really connected to what organization do.
People from Ukraine IT community don't care because they got all the information about the organization without language barriers, but this images seems to be a problem from the outside perspective as this is the first thing that people would notice.
Anyway, thank you for your feedback (I'm not from the organization, I know a few people who help there)
In a simplistic view they don’t save lives, but without them what do you fight with? What keeps Russia from thinking they can just easily take over a country?
back in 2014 when sht hit the fan and Ukrainian army was very weak, ppl made it back strong with everything they could, donating money equipment and food, there was alot of volunteer organizations back then and these ones was one of the most well know, still operating to this day
tbh Idk how to reassure you they are true but here's their fb page with 3mln+ followers https://www.facebook.com/backandalive/
and here's the link of that IT community thing I've mentioned before https://dou.ua/forums/topic/36494/
hopefully those will provide some validation for you
I wish there was a better way of scaling trust online right now and I hope this war ends soon.
Edit: But I'm happy to believe I'm really supporting Ukraine with this donation.
I'm a vet of this war and few mins ago I've was called back to service and most likely I'm about to go back at war zone again pretty soon
so for me personally your support of Ukraine means a lot, thank you man