Ukraine Update – Your Donations Are Saving Lives!
Hey everyone! More of a informal story for you today.
Before we get started I wanted to send a big THANK YOU to everyone who has donated or send us supportive messages. You have no idea how much we appreciate it. The love we get from everyone in the Wildwoods and throughout the country has been amazing.
Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine things in my family have been out of wack.
For those who don’t know, my wife is born and raised in Ukraine and her entire family still lives there.
Not to get into the gruesome news which I do report on via my TikTok JoeyContino2, Julia and I have been doing everything we can to help support her hometown of Lyubeshiv.
In the past 80 days, we have raised over $20,000 in monetary donations and in military gear.
Ukraine Update – Your Donations Are Saving Lives!
In many organizations, you donate and you don’t know what your money gets used for. Today I will break down where your money is going and what Julia and I are doing to stretch every penny.
[Just a note, I show you many photos and videos in the Youtube link at the bottom of this page]
There are a few ways that we have been collecting donations to help out different organizations.
When we did the Wildwoods Walkathon for Ukraine, $15,000 was collected and donated to the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America. Here the money was sent over to Poland where military tactical medical bags were put together.
The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America also donates to organizations such as Razom for Ukraine.
Razom for Ukraine, which translates to “Together for Ukraine” has raised over $40 Million for aid for Ukraine. Weeks after the walkathon we were asked if we would like to volunteer with Razom to put together military tactical medical bags (molle bags).
For the past few weeks, Julia and I have been going to the Razom center (inside the MEEST shipping center) and have personally helped put together over 4,000 of these bags.