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Asking for help from Ukraine
3 years ago
Hello. I know that I have been inactive here for the last year due to lack of free time and work, but now the trouble has come to my house. And not just trouble, but war.
I lived in Ukraine, in the city of Kharkiv, which now suffers from bombing and shelling EVERY DAY and EVERY NIGHT.
From the very beginning of the events, from February 24, I was hiding in the subway, where I lived along with 1100 people. On March 4, my mother and I were forced to leave Ukraine and seek asylum in Poland.
Now we are fine, although our hearts are full of anxiety - my grandparents stayed in Kharkiv (they refused to leave, and they could not leave, because we walked 3.5 hours along the subway rails to get to the station).
We are also in complete obscurity - there is not much money, housing is rented to us for money (we are seven adults and two children in the house). We received some food and things from humanitarian aid for refugees (we are very grateful), but this is not enough for life. We buy a lot of things with our own money: food, medicines (my mother and I became very ill while living on the floor in the subway and crossing the border for 12 hours).
Based on my physical health (also mental, I don't even know how to get my prescriptions here), I'm asking you for help.
You can donate here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/notiraFA
I will be glad to any of your donations that could help me survive and work in the future.
I will also try to create a price list as soon as possible to take orders. If you are unable to help financially, I will ask you to share this post, as this is also a help! *hug* If you want to get a commission right now, please send a note, I'm open to suggestions.
If you need proof that I'm telling the truth and not trying to cheat to get easy money, send me a note, I have photos and videos in my Telegram channel.
I lived in Ukraine, in the city of Kharkiv, which now suffers from bombing and shelling EVERY DAY and EVERY NIGHT.
From the very beginning of the events, from February 24, I was hiding in the subway, where I lived along with 1100 people. On March 4, my mother and I were forced to leave Ukraine and seek asylum in Poland.
Now we are fine, although our hearts are full of anxiety - my grandparents stayed in Kharkiv (they refused to leave, and they could not leave, because we walked 3.5 hours along the subway rails to get to the station).
We are also in complete obscurity - there is not much money, housing is rented to us for money (we are seven adults and two children in the house). We received some food and things from humanitarian aid for refugees (we are very grateful), but this is not enough for life. We buy a lot of things with our own money: food, medicines (my mother and I became very ill while living on the floor in the subway and crossing the border for 12 hours).
Based on my physical health (also mental, I don't even know how to get my prescriptions here), I'm asking you for help.
You can donate here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/notiraFA
I will be glad to any of your donations that could help me survive and work in the future.
I will also try to create a price list as soon as possible to take orders. If you are unable to help financially, I will ask you to share this post, as this is also a help! *hug* If you want to get a commission right now, please send a note, I'm open to suggestions.
If you need proof that I'm telling the truth and not trying to cheat to get easy money, send me a note, I have photos and videos in my Telegram channel.
Send PistachioHorror a Note to be added to the list and tell her if it is "urgent" or "non-urgent but still needs help" (it sounds urgent to me so send her a link to this Journal in your Note).
If you've been fleeing from Kharkiv to Poland you might have missed a lot of the recent events on FA. How much do you know about the current situation? PayPal has been shut off for Russia, many Russian artists are now using Boosty, many Ukrainian artists who don't have access to a non-Russian friend's PayPal and/or a Ko-fi account have been using Buymeacoffee (and I recommend getting an account there because it is convenient for donors). If your PayPal is still working I recommend you enable the FA 'Shinies' feature and tell people that it works.
It is my Polish paypal, not Russian, so it works. Since I did not have Paypal till this period I don't know what Shinies and Buymeacoffee are! I will read about it, thank you for advice <3
I will try to send you some Shinies when the option appears on your Profile page.
I think they are visible now~
The next step is probably to get a Buymeacoffee and/or Ko-fi account. I believe Ko-fi requires the artist/creator to have a PayPal account to get their money so people who are still in Ukraine cannot use it, but a creator can get their money out of a Buymeacoffee account using other methods (Payoneer?) that do work in Ukraine. I had not heard of Buymeacoffee before three weeks ago but it has quickly become very popular with Ukrainian furs and I have been happy with the user experience.
Once you have an account that people can easily use to send donations, the next step is going to be to fill in your FA Profile information, so your Profile page says more than Not Available... and put a link to your Ko-fi or Buymeacoffee somewhere in the information you put on your Profile page.
I'd recommend giving people a link to https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10138995/ since it has become sort of a default coordination place for getting assistance to artists and refugees from Ukraine. You can go down the list on that Journal to see what other Ukraine furs have been doing. You can also try this search: https://www.furaffinity.net/search/?q=Ukraine
Welcome back to FA!
Очень хочется домой (
I just made a Journal to highlight the FA members from Kharkiv: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10225029/ (please tell me if you have any advice or suggestions). I listed you since you mentioned here that you were from Kharkiv, but I can remove your name if you do not want to be listed.