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Domain
industry givers have a long record of
supporting worthy charities. Entrepreneurs
for Knowledge at EFK.org has
become especially well regarded in that area with
their efforts to build new schools for underprivileged
children around the world. Soeren von Varchmin,
the Chairman of the Supervisory Board for both NamesCon
(the domain industry's premier conference) and Cloudfest
(the world’s #1 conference for cloud, hosting
and internet service providers) is also a Board
Member at EFK. In that role he has been at the
forefront of rallying donors from our industry to
get behind the school-building effort. With
the Russian invasion of Ukraine having now
created a dire situation for Ukrainian
children, Soeren and the entire EFK team has
shifted their fund raising focus to address to
address that emergency issue. To put donated funds
to work immediately, EFK has partnered with the
long-established Voices
of Children Foundation, (VCF) a
non-profit organization based in Sloviansk,
Ukraine - and to make sure every
dollar, euro or crypto donation goes to the
needs of those children, the EFK
board members are covering the overhead costs of
the foundation itself, including all employees. As
noted on their website, VCF will use the money to
continue providing non-stop assistance to
affected children and families from all over
the country, providing emergency psychological
assistance, and assisting in the evacuation
process." For
those who have been shocked to see what is
happening in Ukraine (home to thousands of domain,
internet and tech related services providers) and
wondering how you can help and who you
can trust to use the money wisely, this joint
effort between EFK and VCF could be
exactly what you are looking for. Separate pages
have been set to collect payments in US
dollars, euros
and cryptocurrency
(Coinbase link). In
a related noted, on his Facebook page this past
week, Soeren noted that widely known- domain
industry veteran Mark Kychma (Founder of DNPric.es),
has left the safety of his London home to return
to his hometown of Lviv, Ukraine to work as
a volunteer, helping refugees get to the country's
western border and across to safety. It is stories
like these that restore your faith in humanity
when your eyes give you so many reasons to
despair. |
Soeren
von Varchmin
EFK, NamesCon, Cloudfest
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