Help Ivanka, Maxim & Natalia, our Ukrainian displaced family, via direct e-transfer to ninarandal@hotmail.com
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We cannot issue tax receipts. Our foundation has applied to CRA Charities Directorate for charitable status, and if approved by the end of 2022, which is not guaranteed, we will be able to provide receipts backdated to the date we were incorporated on March 8, 2022.
Update: April 22, 2022
Maxim (9 yrs) and Natalia (6 yrs) have started school and are loving it. Less than a week at their new school, the two childrend have made friends in their class ans wake up in the mornings excited for the new day, Kelowna Capital News reporter Jacqueline Gelineau reports. To read more click Here!
Maxim (9 yrs) and Natalia (6 yrs) have started school and are loving it. Less than a week at their new school, the two childrend have made friends in their class ans wake up in the mornings excited for the new day, Kelowna Capital News reporter Jacqueline Gelineau reports. To read more click Here!
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Our Ukrainian Family
The Bravery Foundation is helping a temporarily displaced Ukrainian family (see above photos), and we encourage the people of Kelowna to do the same. Maxim is 9 years old and his sister Natalia is 6. Ivanka their mother is in her mid 20's and fled Ukraine on March 4th, 2022. She has been staying with a friend of a friend in Prague in a tiny one bedroom apartment that's shared with 12 other people. Nina Typusiak, a family member and long term Kelowna resident, hired and paid for a Toronto based company to help Ivanka obtain the appropriate papers to enter Canada. This process has now been completed and the Ukrainian family is expected to arrive in Kelowna this weekend, April 2022.
Relatives
Nina, seen in the below photo with one of her daughters and husband, is taking on a new role to help her Ukrainian relatives. She's raised funds to pay for their airfare to fly to Kelowna, but needs help setting them up in Kelowna.
Many of you will know Nina, an early childhood educator and long term resident of Kelowna. Known as 'Teacher Nina' to many kids in the Okanagan over the past 23 years, including our Founder's children. Nina facilitated a parent participation preschool program through the City of Kelowna for many years. She also taught at the Waldorf school, YMCA, Clubhouse, and Stepping Stones Preschool. Today, Teacher Nina is a Métis Pedagogist with Métis Nation British Columbia.
Donations & Contact Info
Ivanka fled war-torn Ukraine with her kids Maxim and Natalia and was only able to take one small suitcase and two children sized backpacks. Their father and husband, Andre is 28 and stayed behind to help free Ukraine and keep Ivanka's mother safe. Our new Kelowna family needs pretty much everything when they arrive in Canada. Teacher Nina has a small home and has made space in one room for the three of them to sleep in. Below is a list of things they could use and a location for donated items to be dropped off at.
The Bravery Foundation is helping facilitate, at no cost, monetary donations for this young Ukrainian family settling in the Okanagan. If you would like to donate directly to Ivanka, Maxim and Natalia please send an e-transfer to Nina Typusiak's account: ninarandal@hotmail.com The money donated to Nina Typusiak's refugee/displaced family does not go to or through The Bravery Foundation, it is a straight transfer from donors to the family itself.
The Bravery Foundation donates 10% of all funds raised for the international coalition of professional soldiers, to refugees/displaced persons. Thank you for your kindness and generosity.
If you would like to donate tangible goods like clothes, toys or household items to refugees/displaced, please contact 'Kelowna Stands With Ukraine.'
The below photo was taken a few days ago (end of March 2022) and is of the two children, Maxim and Natalia with their aunty Gloria who has flown out to Prague to help them arrive safely in Kelowna.
Donations & Contact Info
Ivanka fled war-torn Ukraine with her kids Maxim and Natalia and was only able to take one small suitcase and two children sized backpacks. Their father and husband, Andre is 28 and stayed behind to help free Ukraine and keep Ivanka's mother safe. Our new Kelowna family needs pretty much everything when they arrive in Canada. Teacher Nina has a small home and has made space in one room for the three of them to sleep in. Below is a list of things they could use and a location for donated items to be dropped off at.
The Bravery Foundation is helping facilitate, at no cost, monetary donations for this young Ukrainian family settling in the Okanagan. If you would like to donate directly to Ivanka, Maxim and Natalia please send an e-transfer to Nina Typusiak's account: ninarandal@hotmail.com The money donated to Nina Typusiak's refugee/displaced family does not go to or through The Bravery Foundation, it is a straight transfer from donors to the family itself.
The Bravery Foundation donates 10% of all funds raised for the international coalition of professional soldiers, to refugees/displaced persons. Thank you for your kindness and generosity.
If you would like to donate tangible goods like clothes, toys or household items to refugees/displaced, please contact 'Kelowna Stands With Ukraine.'
- Contact: Ukrainekelowna@gmail.com
The below photo was taken a few days ago (end of March 2022) and is of the two children, Maxim and Natalia with their aunty Gloria who has flown out to Prague to help them arrive safely in Kelowna.
