Our Ukrainian Efforts | June 10th Update

Cellular Service & Our day-to-day challenges

Both wired home internet and cellular services were cut by Russian military on May 27th.  They have been rerouting wired communications via occupied Crimea (Russian) systems. For over a week this had made our day to day communications, organizing deliveries, nearly impossible.  Thankfully, connections both wired and cellular started to appear, although weak, in some areas of the city allowing us to continue our volumes of purchases and deliveries.  

Russian Military have also completely blocked the ability for anyone to leave or move from city to city putting more pressure on local food supplies to keep up with demand. 

As we make purchases each an every day to feed now over 3000 people each week cash is always a complicated challenge and becoming more difficult to make some purchases from stores still too afraid to rely on electronic transfers. Thankfully we found another local resident willing to exchange a sizable amount of cash for a wire transfer.  We know the cash is out their as many are using it, the challenge is convincing store owners that holding so much cash is a risk and that we can offer a way to get that cash safe into their banking systems via wire transfers.