🌻Colorado Stands with Ukraine: An Evening with Sunflower Seeds Ukraine

🌻 Join us on Zoom for a conversation with guest speaker Chip Heldman of Sunflower Seeds Ukraine, a Boulder-based nonprofit run entirely by volunteers in both the US and Ukraine! Chip will explain why this work matters: Ukraine's military is so large that it can't efficiently supply every soldier with everything they need, so Sunflower Seeds Ukraine works to fill the gap. 🩹 That means medical supplies and equipment like Individual First Aid Kits (IFAKs), 🥽 protective gear such as eye and ear protection, rain gear, and gloves, and 🎒 tactical gear including backpacks, boots, drone detectors, and night vision devices. Beyond the front lines, the group converts ☀️ solar panels into USB chargers, sends 🏕️ kids to summer camp, supports a 🏫 school boiler project, and ships 🎣 fishing nets used to protect roads. 📦 You'll also get a behind-the-scenes look at how aid travels from Colorado to Ukraine. Donations are stored in donated warehouse space in Aurora, where volunteers gather every two months to repack items onto pallets that fill a 40-foot shipping container. 🚛🚢🚂 From there, the container is trucked to a US port, shipped by sea to Poland, sent by train to the Ukrainian border, and trucked to a warehouse in Ukraine. The US team handles fundraising, awareness, donor relations, newsletters, purchasing, and shipping, while the Ukraine team receives and distributes aid based on vetted online orders, sending it to the nearest frontline location. 💪 The impact is real: more than 6,000 solar panels delivered to schools, medical facilities, and frontline areas with little or no electricity, 10,000 IFAKs placed in soldiers' hands, and 10 shipping containers sent in 2026 alone, with over 1,000 requests arriving each month and roughly 500 processed monthly. 💛💙 Come learn how you can help by signing up for the newsletter, volunteering at events, sharing their story with friends and family, and donating! *A core principle behind all Indivisible events is a commitment to nonviolent acti