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On Christmas Eve I made a post trying to ensure that all of our fellow users were at the very least safe and fed over the holiday weekend.
Thanks to your help, I was able to distribute to over 40 people/families nearly $8000 worth of food, hotels and cash.
I will try to ensure we do this type of thing more often; while I was surprised by the level of need in the community, I was even more impressed by the desire to help fix it.
Thank you everyone.
I feel depressed about life, following news, and the world feels ever more grim. Just two days ago I found out that a developer of one of my favorite games "Stalker Clear Sky", died in Bakhmut, fighting on the front lines... And there are suicide drones and rockets flying by my location occasionally. We have regular electricity shutdowns.
But this helps. We've bought Christmas presents for my brother, got food to last the days, and we'll have a good celebration for New Year, what with a cake, meat and other foods of value. It's a kindness that makes me feel better about the world and people out there.
Thanks :))
- I am good at language learning, could teach anyone efficient techniques in the field, as, apart from my native Ukrainian and Russian, I am self-taught at English, German, and a bit higher than beginner Japanese. Not only that, but I am also good at learning in general, helping out people in Discord for 2 years in the Anki community.
- I am a bit higher than beginner at programming. I can manage some simple programs, such as a GUI that adds tasks to SQLite documents and kills background processes if any tasks unfinished.
- I'm good at relationships with people, having worked in customer support, and I've read a couple of books on the subject. I manage a Discord community, if that is saying anything.
If you got any advice, or would like to hire me, email is in profile, or write here :) It's frustratingly hard to find any work - I don't have certificates, nor work experience in the relevant fields. I am also outside a city, so there are few local jobs.
Sorry if this is improper(plugging my job seeking in a joyful thread like this one). I am trying to survive and feed my family.
I’m working on this for you as well; should have more info tomorrow!
Stay strong.
Thank you for highlighting that there are others out there who down on their luck (to put it mildly), with many things out of control. For example, the user who posted from Ukraine really struck a chord with me. Who would've thought last Christmas that this one would be so different for Ukrainians?
What you have done is amazing. HN is truly a fantastic community. I wish everyone a wonderful and happy holidays.
It's weird to me that I like to think of myself as a positive person but come up with that sort of thing.
Thing is, I'm totally OK with some "inefficiency" in public programmes like healthcare or food security.
And thank you for being a good person and doing something when most people just wish that someone else would take care of it.
Australia has a very robust framework for dealing with homelessness and so a much deeper understanding than a lot of countries.
I used to have this perception that you had to be on drugs, etc to end up homeless and it's just not true. There is such a broad set of circumstances that can lead to homelessness and for women in particular the leading cause is domestic violence.
But not having a support network around you (or if you have some then it's couchsurfing, which is a form of homelessness), is very easy. Plenty of people don't have strong support networks to fall back on.
Scammers exist, but we can't let that stop us from helping the many many people that need support (even more with the cost of living crisis).
I’m not saying that we shouldn’t help everyone, just saying that it would be probably much easier to get more support for this.
Sent him a lengthy email about my situation a while ago and he immediately responded.
Thank you very much @atdrummond, I'll share these blessings with the people here. Happy holidays everyone!
Very happy to be part of this community.
Well done, you're a top individual. Wish the world had more people like you.
Amazing.
Feel free to email me if you want to. I have some requests for help trickling in still and probably have it under control but I won’t say no to assistance.
Sharing this here in the hope it inspires others who have the means to do the same.
The world needs more people like you.
I'm happy to be challenged on anything I say and own it when I'm wrong, so see no need to be anonymous.