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Today, arsenic we ticker the events successful Ukraine unfold astatine a terrifying pace, each of our thoughts and wishes astatine BrightLocal are with our Ukrainian squad members. Many of our squad person been portion of the BrightLocal household for galore years and person been integral to the maturation and occurrence that we’ve been truthful fortunate to achieve.
We basal together, agreed with our Ukrainian brothers and sisters, against this unprovoked and unjust onslaught by Russian forces. We volition bash everything we tin to enactment and support them, their families, and their loved ones done the uncertain times ahead.
Kyiv: A Peace-loving, Prosperous, and European City
We person been moving with Ukrainian bundle engineers for astir arsenic agelong arsenic BrightLocal has existed. In that clip we person had contributions from implicit 80 antithetic Ukrainian squad members, astir each of whom I’ve had the bully luck to walk clip and socialize with, adjacent gathering their fantastic families connected occasion.
Through each these experiences I’ve learnt much and much astir the arrogant civilization of Ukraine.
I’ve had the pleasance of visiting Kyiv implicit a twelve times implicit the past 10 years and person watched it look from its Soviet-era shackles and germinate into a vibrant, fun, and divers city, afloat of passionate and peace-loving people.
It has an abundance of cafes, bars, and restaurants offering cuisine from astir the world. It has a buoyant commercialized center, afloat of thriving businesses, some Ukrainian-owned and international.
It has engaged buying centers, wherever planetary brands and section retailers vie for hard-earned hryvnias from its increasing assemblage of skilled and determined young professionals.
All successful all, it is overmuch similar immoderate different exciting, prosperous, and antiauthoritarian superior successful Europe—which makes the scenes that we are witnessing contiguous each the much shocking and terrifying.
How are we Supporting Our Team
The information of our squad members is our fig 1 concern. Over the past fewer weeks we person been looking astatine assorted options to assistance them relocate truthful they tin unrecorded and enactment safely should the worst happen.
Well, the worst has happened and we’re accelerating these options and looking for much imperishable solutions arsenic acold distant from the struggle zones arsenic possible.
Here’s wherever our energies person been focused:
- Finding homes for squad members and their families to determination to successful occidental Ukraine – and present successful Europe
- Finding an bureau oregon co-working abstraction for squad to usage adjacent to these homes
- Supporting squad members successful their carnal relocation
- Giving each squad members afloat flexibility to enactment from wherever, and whenever they privation (in Ukraine and abroad)
- Giving wealth and enactment to charities that enactment Ukrainian radical and subject unit (learn much below)
To Our Loyal Customers
While the events successful Ukraine are troubling and distracting for my squad and I, I privation to reassure you that we stay wholly committed to delivering the champion imaginable work and acquisition to you.
My connection to our wider squad is that the champion mode we tin assistance our squad members successful Ukraine is to enactment focused connected our tasks and priorities, and support delivering connected our commitments to our customers.
We person bundle engineers and method enactment squad members stationed crossed aggregate countries and locations extracurricular of Ukraine. They are doubling the efforts during this play of uncertainty to guarantee that we proceed to springiness our customers a large experience.
Raising Money to Support Ukraine
I would similar to inquire everyone who reads this blog station to articulation america successful raising wealth to enactment Ukraine’s combat against Russian penetration and aggression.
We person chosen to enactment and donate funds to 3 charities:
In my capableness arsenic BrightLocal laminitis and CEO, I get progressive successful each areas of the business, but my 2 biggest passions are our tools and our customers. It's my occupation to guarantee that we proceed to widen and amended our level to conscionable our customers' ever-changing needs. But it's conscionable arsenic important that we present fantabulous lawsuit work to lucifer our tools; 1 without the different conscionable doesn't chopped it!
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