Our teams are in touch with our friends and colleagues in Ukraine and Poland as we try to understand the most pressing needs we can accommodate and the best ways in which we can offer support to both co-workers and their loved ones.
Kuba Filipowski
For now, we’re focusing on the following six areas of relief. We’re monitoring the situation to understand how we can have greater impact.
Here’s an overview of all actions we took to support our employees and the Ukrainian people.
For the past few weeks we’ve been contacting our Ukrainian employees, partners, and contractors to understand their needs and offer relocation assistance for them and their families.
Some of the people we’ve reached out to are already safe in Poland, and more are on their way.
We’re also prepared to support other Ukrainian teams in their office relocation, providing temporary use of our office spaces in Poznań, Kraków, Warszawa, Łódź, Wrocław, and Białystok.
To show that we stand with Ukraine and support its citizens we decided to introduce a few measures of support for Ukrainian citizens who are already living in Poland or all those who have decided to relocate from Ukraine after February 24th due to the military action (regardless of their nationality).
Our extended support includes:
As one of many bottom-up initiatives, many of our team members decided to share their living space with war refugees from Ukraine. Together, we’ve developed a list of all available accommodations in order to make it easier for our support coordinators to organize help and communication between them and dedicated NGOs.
Netguru Team is involved in various charity initiatives, from providing or collecting clothing and hygienic supplies donations to offering transportation and financial support.
Every financial donation to an NGO of their choice will be matched by Netguru, and we’ll donate the funds to the Polish Center for International Aid.
As part of the Tech To The Rescue initiative, we are extending our support to all the people in Ukraine.
Tech To The Rescue is an organization aiming to connect changemakers from the social and tech worlds that creates opportunities for unlocking technology resources and the potential of global collaboration to create positive social impact.
We’ve committed to support the Tech For Ukraine non-profit initiative with our talents and skills.
Netguru is currently involved in two non-profit projects developed as part of Tech For Ukraine: the first one is aimed at supporting the management of the humanitarian response of multiple NGOs (coordinated by Polska Akcja Humanitarna), and the second one is a joint database on diverse individual and collective efforts to manage the information chaos resulting from the current situation.
We’ve developed a set of resources that includes guidelines, contact details, and verified humanitarian relief organizations. All to help our clients, vendors and our whole community stay informed about the current situation and how they can get involved.
We’re also offering our support and best practices in establishing temporary offices, project coordination, process management.
As of March 1st, 2022, every Netguru team member receives complimentary access to mental health support services. Consultations are provided anonymously. We’d like to acknowledge our friends at Therapify for offering their help.