The Associated Opens Ukraine Emergency Fund

By BJLife Newsroom
Posted on 02/24/22

Baltimore, MD -- Feb. 24, 2022 - The Associated: Jewish Federation of Baltimore announced today that it had opened an Ukraine Emergency Fund to provide support to Odessa and communities in Ukraine suffering from the conflict.

One hundred percent of the money raised from the Ukraine Emergency Fund will help support the on-the-ground work by The Associated’s overseas partners, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), the Jewish Agency for Israel and World ORT. The Associated’s partner organizations have provided humanitarian relief and community building systems in Ukraine for many decades and already have long-standing relationships on the ground that will enable them to respond despite the conflict. There are roughly 300,000 Jews in Ukraine and we serve 40,000 vulnerable elderly and families.

Funds raised will:

Provide lifesaving food and medicine and sanitary items like diapers which have skyrocketed in costs.
Support mental health for Ukrainians experiencing trauma from the invasion.
Offer assistance to those wanting to move or relocate to Israel and other emergency evacuations that may become necessary.
Provide emergency supplies should internet, phone and other communication vehicles be compromised.
Support the hundreds of workers serving the Jewish community in Ukraine who are balancing work and their own trauma.

Donations to the Ukraine Emergency Fund can be made at associated.org/Ukraine.

For the past 30 years, The Associated has enjoyed a special relationship with Odessa, Ukraine through its Baltimore-Odessa Partnership. Over the years, The Associated has provided financial support to Odessa’s most vulnerable citizens, as well as to its Holocaust survivors. The Partnership maintains a coordinator in Odessa and during the past three decades, both Baltimore and Odessa residents have established longstanding friendships, while working together and traveling back and forth to learn from one another.