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Ask HN: A “Schindler's List” for our community affected by Ukraine invasion?

4 points by xrd ↗ HN
I've been reading with intense sadness about the evacuations of Russians and Ukrainians during this conflict. Even if they get out of harms way, they need to find a new place to live in the short term and then find alternative sources of income in the long term if their company is Russian.

Could we create a technology solution that aids people affected by this conflict in a way that helps both short and long term problems?

Fraud seems like an obvious issue. But when people post here, I can read their profile and see their GitHub contributions and know they are in my community. So I feel like we could help people in a way that limits fraud.

I'm feeling very helpless about this war. I'll happily contribute $500 directly to people if they need short term income or whatever, so please point me to those who need help right now and I'll do it. It's not a lot (I'm in a startup and don't have consistent income right now) but this world seems so crazy right now and I want to take some action to help.

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verdverm
Should it be limited to the conflict getting media attention or also include all of the other countries people are suffering in from military actions?
version_five
Also, we should be solving global warming, disease, racism, homelessness... how could we possibly work on a single cause when there are so many problems in the world
verdverm
Not trying to be whataboutism, but why did this one war give rise to such ideas while others have not? Should we include the others suffering from war and aggression in the movements to help?

Either way there is a lot of hypocrisy in the information side of the war. Do we want to indulge or apply our values consistently?