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Medical and technical support for people in Ukrainian war zones

Several times, associates of the Foundation for Siberian Cultures traveled by car to the Polish-Ukrainian border and to Estonia to hand over relief supplies, especially medicines, to aid organizations and to bring refugees back to Germany. In Poland, there was a meeting in Katowice, Poland, with a Ukrainian colleague who decided to return from his field research region to his hometown near Odessa. With him we were able to send urgently needed medicines to mainly elderly people. With money and organizational help, we supported a convoy to Odessa, which delivered urgently needed medicines worth more than 50,000 € to hospitals. We are very close to the initiator of this convoy, social anthropologist Claudia Eggart, and will continue to work with her. We recommend her text „Grassroot-level humanitarian aid and the paradoxes of logistics, regulation and geography in times of war”. 

In view of the threat of power cuts in the coming winter of 2023/24, we provided people in need with technical assistance in the form of rechargeable batteries.