Kids forever; Baby soft skin turns into leather

Crimea SOS helps internally displaced people from Crimea and aids in tracking repression against those left behind

Hospitallers is a medical battalion operated by volunteer doctors and paramedics

Svoyi donates free oxygen concentrators to people who contracted COVID & can’t be hospitalized due to personal circumstances or when hospitals are overflowing.

Monsters, Inc is an organization providing medical supplies for emergencies, including covid, in the Odessa region

Blood Agents is an NGO that organizes blood donations. Donor UA is another system that helps with blood donations.

Razom for Ukraine, United Help Ukraine, Fundraiser for Sunflower of Peace, and Revived Soldiers Ukraine all provide medical aid for frontline troops, civilians, and IDPs

Voices of Children is an NGO assisting children displaced or affected by war

Woman Perspective assists women who were victims of domestic abuse or other discrimination

Help the Homeless and Suka Zhizn are two organizations helping homeless people around Ukraine

Happy Old, Let’s Help, and Starenki help the elderly, from visits, education, medicine, to free groceries

If you are looking for an emergency exit from Ukraine, Poland will open EIGHT safety points on the border with Ukraine (you will get warm food, medical help and from there you will be guided to safety) in two of our voivodeships: lubelskie and podkarpackie. It is confirmed by the Polish Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Paweł Szefernaker.

SOURCES:

https://www.rp.pl/konflikty-zbrojne/art35748991-szefernaker-na-granicy-z-ukraina-powstaja-punkty-recepcyjne-dla-uchodzcow

https://www.wprost.pl/polityka/10633681/polska-reaguje-na-agresje-rosji-na-ukraine-powstana-punkty-dla-uchodzcow.html

I've marked those voivodeships on the map!

STOP ASIAN HATE!

Yesterday say 60+ cities demonstrate in solidarity with the Asian community currently under attack from structural white supremacy embedded in the settler colonial culture of the US

via @/StopAAPIhate on Twitter

Via NYMag.com

And there have been countless others unreported.

STOP ASIAN HATE.

Below is a link to the NYMag article that lists 61 ways to donate and support different AAPI communities around the United States.

61 Ways to Donate in Support of Asian Communities

If you can't donate, here are a few ways to support AAPI communities:

Check in with your API friends and colleagues

Don't use anti-Asian rhetoric

Speak and stand up for the Asian American community

Amplify API stories

Support Asian businesses

Tell your leaders from local to federal level to denounce racism

There are many other ways to help us, but these steps are a start.

I want to rage, to erase this crushing sense of helplessness in my lungs. To snarl instead of sobbing. I wanted to be shocked at this injustice. To be surprised and treat this as a horrific incident and not just a symptom of a bigger problem.

But I've witnessed how racist bigots reacted to Floyd, the instinctive racist response and "jokes" when people identified China as the one who was at fault with the whole COVID-situation, and how I immediately thought that those "low-key" racist thoughts will escalate someday to deadly actions. I listened to some of my friends when they said that I'm exaggerating.

And I wish- I wish I was. I wished that they were right and I was wrong. But look at our bloodied history. Look at where we are now.

One step forward, eight bloody steps back.