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Ukranian war, what we have done and what we will do

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Angelo Conti

War broke out on February 24. The next day Specchio opens a subscription and begins to help Ukraine. After five months the numbers recount a story of important interventions: 200,000 meals, 50,000 shopping packages, three refugee villages, in Mostyska, Lviv and Chernivtsi, 330 tons of food, over 100 trips with trucks, buses and mini buses. With the support of 6,793 donors it was possible to raise 1.73 million euros. Solidarity from all over Italy, but also from abroad, such as the American platform Global Giving which renewed its support for Specchio dei tempi, donating $ 80,000 for the Ukraine Emergency.

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The work of the Foundation already in March allows us to have a precise plan. There are those who want to get out of Ukraine, escape from the war, and Specchio dei tempi organizes buses that recover families on the Polish and Romanian borders. On this way over 500 refugees thus manage to arrive in Italy. But there are also those who want to stay, those who don’t want to leave their Country. The Foundation intercepts this need and is the first in Italy to build a village in Chernivtsi, within the Ukrainian borders. A thousand square meters of tensile structures, a canteen, a play area, and a zone for the distribution of shoes and clothes.

Then the Foundation transfers two mobile clinics from Turin, with the Specchiobus, to deal with health emergencies. Buys a field kitchen, the van that houses it, and a nine-seater minibus for the displacement of refugees. Every day it supplies the village with food and basic necessities. Then it looks at the North, and Specchio dei tempi expands its boundaries of intervention. First in Mostyska, here Specchio supplies the village with equipment, electricity generators and heat totems for the coming winter when temperatures will touch -15 degrees. Then he chooses to intervene in Lviv, activating a support program for the provision of meals and for the improving of reception facilities.

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At the same time Specchio also supports expatriate Ukrainians who have reached Italy in the last few months. The first 1,000 families to arrive in Piedmont received, in agreement with the Consulate of Ukraine in Turin, 500 euros in cash to cover the first expenses. The “Forza Mamme Ucraine” project is also activated, to encourage the integration of single women in Turin, who arrived in the country with their children. The initiative includes italian courses, entertainment for children, psychological counseling, trips to learn more about the area and sports activities in the parks. The project involved 210 mothers and 387 children.

Now, six months later the beginning of the war, there are also those who want to return. Precisely for this reason, Specchio deri tempi, in collaboration with the Embassy of Ukraine in Rome, started a busy return home program for refugees at the beginning of June. During the first two months two coaches per week left from Rome and Turin. Up to now 1,000 Ukrainians have been repatriated. The return program is set to continue in the autumn.

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We helped 1000 Ukranian families

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Angelo Conti

Yesterday afternoon, with the delivery of the last 25 aid packages to as many Ukrainian families, Specchio dei tempi concluded one of the projects activated for the refugee emergency: a 500 euro cash aid was delivered to 1000 families, for a total expenditure of half a million euro. In detail, 605 families were helped in Turin, 260 in Novara, 70 in Cuneo, 62 in Alessandria and 3 in Savona. The recipients of the aid were 985 women and 15 men, mainly elderly.  There were 3247 children in these family groups, with an average of 3.2 children. Very large families with up to 9 children were also supported.  The area of origin was in 26% of the cases Mariupol, 22% Odessa, 17% Kiev, 12% Kharkiv. The remaining 23% came from other provinces, almost all in eastern Ukraine.

The project was carried out in close collaboration with the Ukrainian Consulate in Turin and with the consul Dario Arrigotti: a team of Ukrainian volunteers, all long-standing residents in Piedmont, took care of receiving the phone calls for help and of an initial assessment of the requests. The staff of Specchio dei tempi then took care of calling for and delivering the aid, relying in Turin on Casa Santa Luisa in via Nizza 24 and in the provinces on the local editorial offices of La Stampa, which collaborated by providing premises and services.

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There were countless expressions of gratitude for this initiative: “It was moving,” explains Specchio’s president, Lodovico Passerin d’Entreves, “to read the messages that these families sent us. Many women had fled their homes holding their children by the hand but without taking anything else with them. This first important cash aid has enabled them to approach an unknown country in a less difficult way. Assistance will obviously continue for emergencies or particularly serious situations”.

Together with the Cooperativa Crescere 1979, Specchio dei tempi has also immediately set up the “Forza Mamme Ucraine!” project, which is accompanying the integration of dozens of families in Turin by means of meetings, Italian courses, knowledge of the city and games for the children.

Finally, the Refugee Village in Cernivci, in the heart of Ukraine, has been set up for a month now by Specchio dei tempi and Specchio d’Italia, with the logistical support of Remar Onlus. where thousands of refugees fleeing bombed cities, but who do not want to leave Ukraine, are welcomed and assisted, seeking shelter in a relatively quieter city.  Here, Specchio has purchased over 1,000 square metres of tensile structures, deployed the Specchiobus with two clinics, guaranteed medical assistance and sends a truckload of food and basic necessities every week.

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Specchio dei tempi has so far collected €1,578,472 from 6444 donors for the project “For the people of Ukraine”. The subscription obviously remains open, also because there is still a lot to be done, especially in the Village of Cernivci where we provide a meal to 1300 refugees a day.

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Global Giving donates 25 thousand dollars for Ukraine

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Federico De Andrea

Two weeks of heavy work, 4000 donations and more than 920,000 Euro collected.

This is not only an extraordinary show of charity by readers of La Stampa, and Italians in general, and a resolved demonstration of how strong solidarity in Europe can be, but also the proof of how the whole world can feel united in facing disasters and wars.

That’s what happened on GlobalGiving, one of the most important American nonprofit organizations that allows foreign donors to give to all the nonprofits around the world. Mainly American donors contributed to the Specchio dei tempi project, in an attempt to provide Ukrainian refugees with food, supplies, medicines and shelter. After the Covid-19 emergency, where Specchio was the reference point for donations for donating in Italy from abroad, foreign donors have trusted us once again, giving more than 10 thousand euro on the platform.

Moreover, GlobalGiving’s Disaster Response Team has been our partner since the 2017 central Italy earthquake. It has sustained us during the pandemic and it has renovated its support again now, during this new emergency: Specchio dei tempi has been selected as a recipient of a 25 thousand dollar grant (around 22,800 Euro) to help our “critical work serving the people of Ukraine during this terrible time of conflict and destruction”.

This shows once more, if still needed, how solidarity is borderless and universal.

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What we are doing for Ukrainian refugees

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Angelo Conti

Close to Ukraine, really close. Specchio dei tempi was the first Italian foundation to launch a subscription in favour of Ukraine on Sunday 27 February. At the same time, its sister foundation, Specchio d’Italia, which operates throughout Italy, immediately took action to support the collection. When the two foundations opened the subscription, they made available 100,000 euro of their own funds, to which private donations from everyone – citizens, families, schools and companies – were immediately added. Yesterday evening the collection exceeded 400,000 euro.

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How we are using donations for Ukraine

What have we done to help the Ukrainians? The first emergency appeared to be the hundreds of thousands of refugees crossing the Polish and Hungarian borders. Within a few hours, we contacted voluntary associations, local authorities and journalists from local newspapers in those countries to get a good understanding. It became clear that while there were no problems on the Hungarian border (the Hungarian reception system was efficient and met all the needs of those arriving), the situation on the two main routes between Ukraine and Poland was quite different. On Monday, the first shuttles, financed and supported by our foundation, were already on their way to these areas. On Wednesday night, the first refugees arrived in Italy, reaching first Brescia and then Turin.

A chain of shuttles for humanitarian aid

Since then, the shuttle service has been running on a daily basis: 9-seater mini-buses, but also a 54-seater coach, which has just left today and will be used frequently next week. Obviously, these vehicles have also begun to transport basic necessities: mainly foodstuffs with a long shelf life, personal hygiene products, medicines and various medical supplies (with particular demand for syringes, bandages, plasters and disinfectants).

Welcoming Ukrainian refugees in Turin

Meanwhile, in Turin, the il Comitato di Coordinamento della Regione Piemonte (Coordination Committee of the Piedmont Region) has entrusted us with the task of assisting the families of arriving refugees, offering them immediate economic support. To this end, in close collaboration with the Ukrainian Consulate and its volunteers, an emergency telephone number has been activated, available to those who arrive.

What we will do next week

Next week’s programme includes intensifying connections with the borders to transport refugees to Italy, but also sending medical supplies and food to those who have decided to stay in Ukraine, some to fight, some unable to move for health reasons, some out of attachment to their homeland.

We will continue to be close to the Ukrainian people. Everyone can give us a hand to be even more incisive and more capable of bringing comfort to desperate people.

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How to help the people of Ukraine

If you want to help the Ukrainian people you can donate by clicking here, with a credit card or Paypal. Or you can pay by bank transfer to the account in the name of Fondazione La Stampa – Specchio dei tempi ONLUS, via Lugaro 15 – 10126 Torino, IBAN: IT67 L0306909 6061 0000 0117 200, Banca Intesa Sanpaolo. In the reason for payment: “For the people of Ukraine”. All payments, except those in cash, are tax deductible.

 

How to donate for Ukrainian refugees

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Specchio dei tempi launches an emergency appeal and allocates 50,000 euros

Specchio dei tempi launches an emergency appeal for Ukrainian people, after getting many requests from its readers.

Thus, an amount of 50,000 euros has immediately been put at disposition to support thousands of refugees fleeing from their own war-torn Country.

Anybody can help us and Ukraine. As always, we are keeping you updated on all our initiatives.

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How to donate for Ukrainian refugees

You can donate here by credit card or through Paypal. In alternative, you can donate by wire transfer at our bank account headed FONDAZIONE LA STAMPA – SPECCHIO DEI TEMPI, Via Lugaro 15, 10126 Torino, IBAN IT67 L0306909 6061 0000 0117 200, INTESASANPAOLO SPA.

Please specify the reason for payment “To Ukrainian people“.

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How to donate on Global Giving for Ukraina

Not only you can on our website but, if you prefer you can also choose to donate to help refugees coming from Ukraina on GlobalGiving, one of the safest, easiest and globally recognized platforms for donations.

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Specchio dei tempi: emergency aid since 1955

Specchio dei tempi is a non-profit foundation supported by the solidarity of the readers of La Stampa newspaper and the citizens of Turin. It comes from the column of the same name published on the pages of the newspaper: a space of free dialogue, where one can discuss, denounce injustices and also ask and offer help. Since 1955 it has been the “heart” of Turin and of La Stampa: a sort of hub for readers willing to give concrete and immediate help to those in difficulty. Specchio intervenes in emergencies, like earthquakes and Covid pandemic. The Foundation operates in Piedmont, Italy and around the world to give hope to those who suffer.

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