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🇺🇦️ Helping the world #standwithukraine using Softr & Airtable

Gabrielle Lods is based in Switzerland. On February 26th, she felt overwhelmed by the news coming from Ukraine and couldn't sleep. From her warm bed in Switzerland, she felt powerless.

“As I scrolled social media, I kept noticing my entire feed filled with people asking over and over how to help. So I decided to gather and categorize the initiatives I was seeing pass by.

In a couple of hours, I built a website to spread and give visibility to impactful actions across the world. And so standwithukraine.app was born.”

Quickly growing a library of initiatives

On February 28th, Gabrielle posted the site on Product Hunt and started to collaborate with volunteers to develop a section of the site dedicated to Ukrainians.

“The site has now evolved further and regroups over 300+ initiatives sourced through media recommendations, public suggestions and our personal research. There is a significant backlog of initiative submissions, but the volunteers do their best to parse the content.

The objective now is to serve as a global aggregator of all initiatives and resources to help Ukraine. We hope to keep growing and adapting as the situation evolves.”

Building standwithukraine.app using Softr and Airtable

Gabrielle took note of the trending #standwithukraine hashtag and used this as inspiration for the site’s domain.

“I deliberately spent little time on design so I could focus on content. This way, people could quickly find initiatives in their countries and help, fast. I also started gathering information on protests from various sources.

"We use Airtable to store the database of all initiatives. We gather resources from our social media news feeds, newsletters, media, and submissions on the site.

The ‘Provide Help’ section of the site is in English and ‘Receive Help’ is in Ukrainian. Since we don’t always have the resources to translate via a human, we use the =googletranslate() formula in Google Sheets which does the job to an OK standard.

The front side of the site is made with Softr. It allows us to display the information using the category of the initiative and the country. This way, the information becomes easier to search, access and share broadly."

A call for help

"Creating, growing, maintaining and hosting a site is time-consuming and costly. Right now, we can’t reply to individual help requests or put people in touch with each other as we don’t have bandwidth.

But you can help us by offering your expertise (social media, PR, research, etc.) or by reaching out to provide financial support. Every Euro is welcome!"

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🐦 Tweet of the Week

Airtable @airtable ✨ New feature for Airtable form users: You can now hide pre-filled fields from being visible. Get the details in our community post 👉 ow.ly/S00250IkWX0 pic.twitter.com/Dk6sFeR5gU March 16th 2022 10 Retweets 69 Likes

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