Two Estonians founded the group Vaba Ukraine (https://facebook/groups/VabaUkraina/) that regularly sends much-needed medical supplies to Ukraines troops fighting off the Russian invasion. Thank you, friends! How did you come up with the idea of shipping medical supplies? KK: After the invasion of Crimea, it looked like the rest of the world was just going to sit back and watch. So I thought, maybe I could do something useful. So I browsed the Internet and found on Facebook a request for field medics’ backpacks. Contacted them, in reply I was asked how many I could provide. So I took the dive and promised five. Threw in some of my own money, raised some more through a web forum, where I also met Andrus for the first time, he was about to buy a batch of tourniquets. That’s how our cooperation began. AR: Someone was offering tourniquets over the forum really cheap, don’t know where he’s gotten them from, anyway I bought the lot. I was thinking I would throw in some stuff and then ship it off to Ukraine. That’s when I met Kuido. And that’s when we started openly raising money. It was amazing, at first we only had our personal accounts, think of the risks – and nevertheless people dared, money started to flow in.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 23:52:58 +0000
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