The website is live! Huge thanks to Mario Zechner & team for taking us digital and allowing the €50 per family grocery card distribution project to scale up across Austria to meet the huge demand.
Do you have a preference for how donations are made (via the website / @groceries4Ukraine)? I was checking the functionality of the website, and when I checked the ‘donate via debit / credit card’ option, it displayed ‘Donations to this recipient aren't supported in this country’ (I am from India). I made a donation (@groceries4Ukraine) on May 14th. I will donate again next month. If you prefer through website, I will send it via paypal on the website.
In the post on Day 65 (Long Haul), you had written ‘I am thinking a lot about a buddy system. Each local family adopts a Ukrainian family they check in on.’ Today, on twitter you had asked whether anyone in Vienna would like to directly help two sisters from Ukraine with eleven kids.
In March, I read about people using Airbnb to directly transfer cash to Ukrainian families in need. Airbnb soon suspended listings posted after the war started, but before that almost 20 million dollars had been transferred to Ukrainian families in a month!
Is it possible to create something on the website similar to Dunbar’s friendship circles? It is anthropologist Robin Dunbar’s concept that human beings can approximately maintain 150 relationships. It breaks down as 5-10-35-100. The first five are one’s closest relationships (partner, family); the next ten are close friends. These are the people who are most likely to help out an individual in times of distress.
After you prioritize the most needy cases, individual donors (Austrian / International) can sign up to help particular families (10 donors per family?) and payments from donors to the website will be allocated to these families? Or each family can create their own paypal account and you can list it as verified on the website (with some details about the family) and donors can send money to that account. Also maybe, some mechanism of communicating between the family and friend (provide email id of family to donor by email?), so that they can talk to each other (similar to Airbnb)?
If writing new programs for the website is not feasible, maybe you can choose families and give details about them (family situation; paypal account) on twitter / substack and readers can chose who to help.
As one grocery card per family will not solve all problems, friends who contribute monthly will help a bit more. Even if all families in need cannot have their financial problems solved, some will be matched with friends who can remove their financial worries in this time of distress.
Do you have a preference for how donations are made (via the website / @groceries4Ukraine)? I was checking the functionality of the website, and when I checked the ‘donate via debit / credit card’ option, it displayed ‘Donations to this recipient aren't supported in this country’ (I am from India). I made a donation (@groceries4Ukraine) on May 14th. I will donate again next month. If you prefer through website, I will send it via paypal on the website.
In the post on Day 65 (Long Haul), you had written ‘I am thinking a lot about a buddy system. Each local family adopts a Ukrainian family they check in on.’ Today, on twitter you had asked whether anyone in Vienna would like to directly help two sisters from Ukraine with eleven kids.
In March, I read about people using Airbnb to directly transfer cash to Ukrainian families in need. Airbnb soon suspended listings posted after the war started, but before that almost 20 million dollars had been transferred to Ukrainian families in a month!
Is it possible to create something on the website similar to Dunbar’s friendship circles? It is anthropologist Robin Dunbar’s concept that human beings can approximately maintain 150 relationships. It breaks down as 5-10-35-100. The first five are one’s closest relationships (partner, family); the next ten are close friends. These are the people who are most likely to help out an individual in times of distress.
After you prioritize the most needy cases, individual donors (Austrian / International) can sign up to help particular families (10 donors per family?) and payments from donors to the website will be allocated to these families? Or each family can create their own paypal account and you can list it as verified on the website (with some details about the family) and donors can send money to that account. Also maybe, some mechanism of communicating between the family and friend (provide email id of family to donor by email?), so that they can talk to each other (similar to Airbnb)?
If writing new programs for the website is not feasible, maybe you can choose families and give details about them (family situation; paypal account) on twitter / substack and readers can chose who to help.
As one grocery card per family will not solve all problems, friends who contribute monthly will help a bit more. Even if all families in need cannot have their financial problems solved, some will be matched with friends who can remove their financial worries in this time of distress.