🇺🇦 Four years in which the world seems to be getting used to the headlines, but people never do. That is too long to call it a ‘crisis’. It is a reality in which an aggressor state continues, day after day, to threaten and destroy human lives – deliberately, purposefully and cynically.
🗣 And that is precisely why signals showing that a stance is not merely for show are so important. A Ukrainian skeleton athlete was disqualified at the Olympics because of his helmet, and this is not simply a ‘technical incident’. It is a stark reminder to democracy: values must be defended even when there is pressure to ‘never mix politics into this’ – politics ended when the war began. But war is not a matter of opinion. And aggression cannot be normalised.
🙌🏻 Over the past four years, the association “Laiks Jauniešiem” has taken concrete steps that provide practical help:
🔹️ Coordinated the collection of humanitarian aid and warehouse operations in Bauska District.
🔹️ Regularly prepared and delivered aid to Ukraine – clothing, household items and other everyday necessities.
🔹️ Involvement in the delivery of a local authority bus as a donation to the town of Malina, so that it could serve the local people and meet their needs.
🔹️ Support for integration in Latvia: children’s camps, cultural orientation courses for young people, study trips and other activities that help people understand their new environment, feel safe and build a new daily routine.
📌 This is not a “one-off gesture”. It is work – packing boxes, sorting, compiling lists, transport, communication, responsibility. Work that continues even long after the cameras have gone away. We hope that this war will soon come to an end – with Ukraine’s victory, justice and genuine security. Until then, we will not remain silent and we will not let up.
💙 💛 We will continue to work day in, day out, to integrate, to network and to provide support to our friends in Ukraine and Latvia. Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!