For updates / summaries on donations work, please follow me on social media!

On Facebook, I frequently included posts on my newsfeed and story on how donations are being used + posting latest news, useful resources, requests for help, and more.

On Instagram, I frequently added posts to my stories.

26 February 2022 - ongoing

Hey friends abroad and in the US! Lots of folks have kindly reached out asking how we’re doing here in Poland as we’re next door to Ukraine. We are okay and safe, but countless people in Ukraine cannot say the same.

Lots of people are also asking how they can help and here’s one way you can help right now— I’m accepting donations indefinitely to provide direct and immediate help to displaced people in Ukraine and refugees coming from Ukraine to Poland thanks to dear friends I’m working with both in Ukraine and Poland.

Please contribute if you are able to provide desperately emergency supplies such as food, hygiene products, clothes, blankets, and much more to Ukraine and to also help evacuated people arriving from Ukraine to Poland.

If you are able to contribute to helping those in need, please see the information below which will go directly to purchasing supplies to help those in need! Even just a little goes a long way!!

#StandWithUkraine

Venmo- @Joanna-Pottle

Paypal-pottlejw@dukes.jmu.edu

Revolut: joannaarx03 (USD + PLN option)


For Europe/Poland donations: contact me for details

RUSSO-UKRAINE WAR: INFO AND WAYS TO HELP

Ukraine FB Link Folder

A few places where you can donate:

  • The Kyiv Independent - Ukraine’s English-language media outlet, created by journalists who were fired from the Kyiv Post for defending editorial independence: click to support.

  • Ukraine Aid Osnabruck - Kraków - Ternopil - Solidarity towards Ukraine - The newly founded non-profit association based in Osnabrück supports the Ukrainian civilian population suffering from the Russo-Ukrainian war as well as war refugees. It is based on a network of professors from the universities of Osnabrück (Germany), Kraków (Poland) and Ternopil (Ukraine). The main contact person in Ukraine is professor Serhii Banakh, Dean of the Faculty of Law at Ternopil University and officer of the reserve. He communicates the specific need of supplies and personally takes care of the distribution in the Ukraine. The close personal relationships between the actors in Germany, Poland and the Ukraine make it possible to provide help that is extremely needs-oriented and at very short notice. Already in the first weeks of the war, it was possible to provide extensive aid deliveries, which included medical goods (painkillers, bandages, etc.), clothing (gloves, etc.), technical equipment (flashlights, power banks, etc.) and a minibus. The latter is used to transport goods from Ternopil in western Ukraine to eastern Ukraine and to transport refugees in the opposite direction.

    Donation account:
    Sparkasse Osnabrück
    Ukrainer-Hilfe Osnabrück – Krakau – Ternopil e. V.
    IBAN: DE32 2655 0105 1552 2824 67

    Tax number: 66/270/05305 (Finanzamt Osnabrück-Stadt)
    Association register: VR 202204 (Amtsgericht Osnabrück

  • Jewish Community Center Support Ukraine — Your gift will directly help Ukrainian refugees in Krakow and people in Ukraine affected by war - click to see and select donation options

Additional sources of information and places to donate:

1) Donate to Ukraine’s Defenders

2) Save Lives in Ukraine: Humanitarian Aid

3) Russia-Ukraine War: Info and ways to help

  • Please check the link which lists options to provide support in multiple forms (whether you're a foreigner or a local), to help keep independent media afloat, and to learn more about the situation.

4) Support and learn how to help Ukraine
5) And an additional list of resources and info on LinkedIn (PL + ENG)

11 April 2023

Review: Artist Residencies and Opportunities for Ukrainians in Culture

As we continue to move into the second year of the full-scale Russian military invasion of Ukraine, we are committed to continuing to find and share opportunities for Ukrainians working in art and culture, in Poland and also beyond. Please read below for a few ongoing programs such as artist residencies and similar opportunities for those in the cultural sector such as researchers, writers, and translators as well as organizations and platforms to add to your list to follow for future opportunities: Go to article

Announcement from May 2022 —

Donations will still be accepted on an ongoing basis as Joanna pivots to support networks for the growing Ukrainian community in the art and culture sector as well as volunteering in her local community in helping Ukrainians find long-term housing, employment opportunities, and providing English language workshops for Ukrainians, in particular through global feminist NGO VOICE Amplified’s Kraków Office for Humanitarian Aid workers and volunteers seeking to expand their grassroots initiatives with external funding and collaboration.

March - April 2022 donations — Funding Overview for donators

Zupa dla Ukraniski — Krakow 500 PLN ($119.00)

Fulbright Network emergency supplies throughout ło∂ż, Wrocław, Warsaw, and Kraków for ($500)

Olena Lviv initiative — $1000

Individual family support — clothes, emergency supplies, toys for kids, personal hygiene items $300

Link to stories, via instagram account highlight for Ukraine

Saturday 12 March 2022 / Social Media Post

Hey friends! Wanted to give you a quick update here from Kraków now into roughly 2 weeks since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, promoting countless people to step in to offer as much help as possible for displaced people and people evacuating Ukraine.

Please feel free to share this post!

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Important note: As always, I’m collecting donations INDEFINITELY to go directly to getting much needed emergency supplies such as food, clothes, and other necessities as I work with my dear friends and colleagues in both Ukraine and Poland to get support where it’s most needed! There is still a need for this, especially for displaced people still in Ukraine.

Send support via:

Venmo- @Joanna-Pottle

Paypal-pottlejw@dukes.jmu.edu

Revolut: joannaarx03

Support Ukraine link on my website: https://www.joannapottle.com/support-ukraine

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A few quick thoughts and key ideas here for ALL of us to implement into our ongoing and future conversations and actions from now on

1) TERMINOLOGY

I initially didn’t understand the essential and complex nuance in the phrases we use in a context such as this one, but after consulting with many Ukrainians, doing my research and consulting credible sources, and talking with far more intelligent and informed people than me (those that work in crisis assistance in the midst military and war conflict) in the days following the invasion, here’s some excellent advice:

Please use the following terms for now on to provide more accuracy to the situation and promotes dignity, empowerment, and humanizing of peoples most impacted.

Side note: please do not feel badly or guilty if you have been using the non-recommended phrases below— just take this as a genuine opportunity to learn and adopt them now. We’re all still learning and that is okay and normal :

USE: (Full-scale)Russian (military) invasion of Ukraine

NOT SIMPLY A “crisis” but a context full of multi-generational, multi-century context.

I found an excellent post on this which I’m attaching as images to this post which gives an in-depth explanation for this— please check it out.

USE: evacuating persons/people from Ukraine

Consider additional language to refugees

Example: During WWII, women and children were evacuated from cities in the UK, such as London, to the countryside to escape the Blitz.

We did not and do not call them refugees, we call them evacuated peoples.

The term refugees can inadvertently take away peoples power and promote an attitude of pity, amongst other things, which is not constructive or helpful to either the person evacuating or the person providing assistance.

When directly interacting with those impacted by the invasion: Be professional — try not to be emotional as this can be re-traumatizing for people. Provide help in a calm, but empathetic and kind manner.

2) TIMELINE OF NEED — CASE PRESENTED IS SPECIFICALLY FOR *EVACUATED PEOPLES FROM UKRAINE* (TO POLAND):

Phase 1 / IMMEDIATE NEEDS: Getting help for emergency + urgent level needs i.e. evacuation, shelter (usually in the form of temporary housing ranging from government provided, organizationally supported, or grass-roots / individual level), food, water, basic necessities to those who need it most and immediately responding to those needs.

Security and protection of vulnerable peoples is key here, but obviously ongoing, to ensure that people are getting the assistance they need and not being taken advantage of one way or another.

Phase 2 / SHORT-LONG TERM: Once those immediate needs are met, then the next phase begins: To create SUSTAINABILITY as people will need to relocate indefinitely.

This includes long-term housing for people that most likely (or already know) there is no home or place to return to (at least anytime in the near-er future), jobs and work opportunities, language skills (in many instances here in Poland it’s learning and/or improving Polish language skills of course, but also occasionally English) for both adults and young people seeking work and children needing to enroll in schools, and more.

Phase 3 / LONG-TERM: Planning, organizing, and implementing long-term support networks including but not limited to on the governmental (and policy), institutional, organizational, and local level. This is an extension of Phase 2, but also in anticipation of a major influx of permanent migration.

Currently, I am involved in various ways in all 3 Phases, to different degrees and capacities. If you would like to get involved in 1 or multiple Phases, either as a local in Krakow, in Poland, in Europe, in the US or anywhere, please reach out. And please reach out with any questions you might have about this post, etc. Much love to all and Slava Ukrayini

7TH UPDATE OF SUPPORT FOR UKRAINIANS FROM YOUR DONATIONS - 7 March 2022

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Want to make a direct impact on the lives of displaced people in Ukraine and refugees coming to Poland from Ukraine? I’m collecting donations to go directly to getting much needed emergency supplies such as food, clothes, and other necessities as I work with my dear friends and colleagues in both Ukraine and Poland to get support where it’s most needed!

Send support via:

Venmo- @Joanna-Pottle

Paypal-pottlejw@dukes.jmu.edu

Revolut: joannaarx03

Support Ukraine link on my website: https://www.joannapottle.com/support-ukraine

Thanks to the latest wave of donations thanks to your incredible generosity I was able to provide continued support of the truly remarkable work being done in Lviv, Ukraine, to help those who need it most!

Please see the links below to hear from Olena Kapys directly via her Facebook and Instagram stories plus see the images below that are just a few of many that give us a glimpse of how tremendous their grassroots initiative of support is !!

https://www.facebook.com/.../UzpfSVNDOjM4NjA3MTc3NjY4.../...

https://instagram.com/.../o_khrushch/2788828620369363997...

Please keep the donations coming!! As you can see, every little bit goes a long way to ensuring we help as many people in crisis right now!

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FRIDAY / 4 March 2022

IMPORTANT DONATION UPDATE / 6TH UPDATE OF SUPPORT FOR DISPLACED PEOPLE IN UKRAINE AND REFUGEES EVACUATING TO POLAND FROM UKRAINE FROM YOUR DONATIONS + REQUEST FOR MORE FUNDS:

I have received over $3500+ / 16,000+ PLN total in less than a week!!! THIS IS INCREDIBLE !!! You are making a lifechanging difference truly!!

Thanks to help I received from friends to help run errands in the last 24 hours keep up with all YOUR generous donations and the ever growing needs for assistance we were able to:

1️⃣ Purchase more urgently supplies needed with your generous donations for both refugees in Poland and displaced people in Ukraine

2️⃣ PLUS continue providing significant, multiple rounds of support to Olena’s initiative in Lviv to people on the frontline of the war

‼️ As of 3pm CET / 9AM ET there are ZERO $$ left! We still need your help, now more than ever! ‼️PLEASE KEEP SUPPORTING: please donate as you can and sharing the the info I’m posting so we can continue to help refugees and displaced people as the war is only just beginning and we need your support!

📲 Donations are being accepted indefinitely to provide direct and immediate help to displaced people in Ukraine and refugees coming from Ukraine to Poland.

Venmo- @Joanna-Pottle

Paypal-pottlejw@dukes.jmu.edu

PLUS new third option: Revolut: joannaarx03 (USD + PLN option)

Now for summaries of the latest donations made thanks to YOUR help!!

📌Thursday afternoon, (3 March): 💸

Food bought for a donation point in Krakow in response to an urgent call for help to get food for refugees coming to Krakow and also sending supplies to Lviv, Ukraine. Thank you to Emily for getting the supplies for people and bringing them to the donation point!

📌 Thursday evening, (3 March): ❗️ 💸

Was able to provide support for refugees even in another Polish city, Wrocław, where an influx of people coming from Ukraine need basic emergency supplies ASAP. Thanks to Chelsea for running those errands and dropping them off at the donation point!

📌Friday morning, (4 March): ❗️ 💸

A 2nd round of donations was rounded up for a local Krakow donation point (ul. Wadowicka 6, MedTex medical store) I went to the other day which is gathering supplies to take back to Ukraine— thank you to Tanner for getting the requested supplies and bringing them to the donation point. We were able to find out what top priority supplies they most needed and get them what they most urgently require: multiple kinds of medicine and diapers.

📌Friday afternoon, (4 March): ❗️ 💸

And finally, I was able to send additional support to Olena’s initiative in Lviv, Ukraine, as they continue to work around the clock for over a week now to meet the endless needs for urgent help in country within Ukraine.

All monies/donations given were allocated and spent immediately upon notification of urgent need from my credible sources and friends I’m working with.