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No end in sight
by Finn Sawyer The author is an international volunteer from the UK. He has spent the last month volunteering with Dignity Aid International in Ukraine, helping with various projects such as supporting the Odesa psychiatric hospital and village distributions. More than three years since the full-scale war began, there still appears to be no end in sight, and the suffering…
Newsletter Archive: Dec 2024-Mar 2025
Hi all, below are the links to our newsletters from December 2024 – March 2025. We’re hoping to switch to Substack in April 2025 and to have a fresh new way of browsing newsletters; we’ll keep you updated! https://mailchi.mp/0d247c13c300/a-note-to-potential-donorshttps://mailchi.mp/55ef708af33d/dignity-aid-week-105-holiday-timeshttps://mailchi.mp/f7ab434cac6c/dignity-aid-week-106-are-there-no-prisons-no-workhouseshttps://mailchi.mp/030e87a174ad/dignity-aid-week-109-a-new-yearhttps://mailchi.mp/94d994f4f45f/dignity-aid-week-112-a-plume-of-firehttps://mailchi.mp/a699c497779c/dignity-aid-week-115-of-nutrients-and-negotiationshttps://mailchi.mp/8d0514c0aa64/dignity-aid-week-117-ukraine-webinar-finding-a-way-through-the-madnesshttps://mailchi.mp/2e1c828eb969/dignity-aid-week-119-ukraine-webinar-today
Newsletter Archive: May-Nov 2024
Hi all! I’ll be regularly posting links to our past newsletters, which haven’t been published automatically on this blog since we’ve switched to the excellent email service provided by Mailchimp. Above is a link to our previous blog posts, and hopefully this archive format makes it easy to browse our more recent updates: https://mailchi.mp/7224bf361286/week-104-on-giving-tuesday-lets-build-something-extraordinaryhttps://mailchi.mp/70dc4af3df76/dignity-aid-week-103-1006-days-of-warhttps://mailchi.mp/682302740c22/dignity-aid-week-100-its-always-coldest-before-dawnhttps://mailchi.mp/7eb9d6da7676/dignity-aid-week-98-board-of-directors-introductionhttps://mailchi.mp/6e4c86bffcd1/dignity-aid-week-96-for-peacehttps://mailchi.mp/fc6944f4cb5e/dignity-aid-week-95-kharkiv-moldova-odesahttps://mailchi.mp/fc6944f4cb5e/dignity-aid-week-95-kharkiv-moldova-odesahttps://mailchi.mp/ed84caa2f9c1/dignity-aid-week-88-ukraine-invades-russiahttps://mailchi.mp/156cee12af09/dignity-aid-week-86-small-things-add-uphttps://mailchi.mp/cfcfa37c382e/dignity-aid-week-84-a-short-notehttps://mailchi.mp/6859e0161a31/dignity-aid-week-83-hospitals-as-targetshttps://mailchi.mp/b7a2a414e789/without-light-but-with-hopehttps://mailchi.mp/1f06f70faa92/dignity-aid-week-81-waiting-for-peacehttps://mailchi.mp/83838423bdec/dignity-aid-week-80-the-international-humanitarian-systemhttps://mailchi.mp/5b920d61ca15/dignity-aid-week-79-a-friend-in-townhttps://mailchi.mp/8d112be91b8f/dignity-aid-week-78-under-siege-fighting-onhttps://mailchi.mp/188d94a21c5f/a-renewed-weekly-update-dignity-aid-international
“Last Saturday was different.”
by Sophie Watson The author has spent many months volunteering in Ukraine with Dignity Aid International and other organizations around the country. She now lives in the UK, helps remotely with DAI social media, and — well, read on: Trafalgar Square could not feel further away from the realities of a brutal (and sometimes seemingly endless) war. The double-decker buses…
New Year, New Dignity Aid Update
Dear Friends, What a holiday season it has been! At 1am on New Year’s Day Odesa had its firework display: a haunting flood of red tracer bullets shooting up into the sky, searching for the invisible drones and missiles which threatened the civilian population below. I sat with a few friends and silently watched this deadly torrent of explosive capability…
Sep-Oct Update: Two Months of Passion and a Fundraising Drive
Dear Friends, So much has happened since last we talked. On Sunday evening, while visiting some friends in Odesa, we found ourselves seated on a bathroom floor while drone after drone came whirring toward the city before being shot down with ear-splitting explosions. A few blocks from where we sheltered, a missile blasted into the street in front of the…
August Donor Update: When the Dawn is Still Dark
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” - Rabindranath Tagore, ‘Fireflies’ Dear Friends, The homeland of Rabindranath Tagore lies thousands of miles from my current home in Ukraine, in the state of West Bengal, India. But by the strange threads which link all of humanity, I recently stumbled upon an excellent YouTube…
Donor Update, Wks. 16-18: A Song of Spring
“Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, … And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.” - C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Dear Friends, A few opening comments. First, it is actually true that Oxford professor C.S. Lewis did not use the Oxford comma in the title of his hit novel quoted…
Donor Update, Wks. 13-15: A Wizard is Never Late…
“…nor is he early — he arrives precisely when he means to.” - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring My dear donors and friends, I occasionally comfort myself with those words spoken by Gandalf at the beginning of Tolkien’s classic. And as the weeks slowly slipped by since my last update, they came to mind frequently. Being in Moldova, I…