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

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

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…

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…

“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…

“…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…

Sent 24 February 2023 – Dear friends and donors, A short update today, as I have been in Moldova all week working on a visa as well as drafting a longer reflection on my experiences so far, which I will send next week. A few pieces of good news: our 501(c)(3) non-profit paperwork has been filed in Virginia and is…

Sent 15 February 2023 – Dear donors and friends, Yesterday was simply breathtaking. Over the course of three months, with the help of countless individuals, with constant effort, and by the grace of providence, we marked the opening of a humanitarian distribution point in Kherson Oblast by distributing aid to more than 550 individuals in one day. On a Tuesday…