Mission Statement: To help Jewish people by donating to Jewish Federations through a Social Entrepreneurship le

Team Name: Koporatin, combination of our last names, raising money for Jewish Federations

Team members: David Ratin, Theodore Porfireiv, Marat Bedoev, Alexander Kozlov

The program and the expectations from you

We are a part of Jookender, a program dedicated to teaching students about Social Entrepreneurship and upholding Jewish values.

Theodore Porfiriev — Theodore Porfiriev lives in Newton, MA, and attends Newton North High School. Interested in helping other people. Expects that this program will be able to advance that goal.

David Ratin - Freshman at UMass, graduated from Newton North High School, lives in Amherst and Newtonville

We would like to raise money for a good cause, and want to help Jewish families who are in need both here in the US and around the world. Givebutter is a good platform to build a foundation for raising money. We want to help Jewish families, and this program advances that goal in an efficient and effective way.

Ukraine is a country in crisis — with countless cities bombed, bridges destroyed, and infrastructure collapsed, there are millions of people in need of immediate relief. Kharkev has been occupied; Mariupol encircled, Kiev under siege. Nowhere do we see the effects of the war more profoundly than with the approximately Jewish people living in Ukraine, many of which are the elderly and the young. The estimated 200,000 Jews living in Ukraine have been profoundly affected by the political and economic instability that have wracked the country. Thousands are trapped in conflict zones in the east. Thousands more have fled the fighting.

What our campaign hopes to achieve is to raise funds to provide relief for those in need — raising funds for the organization Jewish Federations, a body dedicated to assisting Jews in areas of crisis, which has created an emergency fund to help with Ukraine relief. Funds raised by this campaign would be organized with Jewish Federations and the Massachussets organization Jookender, to be sent to aiding Ukranian Jews across the country, securing welfare services, facilitating Aliyah to Israel, and launching an emergency hotline for communication which has been jammed and destroyed by the war. With your support, we’ll be able to help all of those affected by the war in Ukraine receive the help and aid they desperately need and deserve.

Jookender teen fundraiser for JFNA - Help Ukraine!

By Koporatin Student Group

Jookender teen fundraiser for JFNA - Help Ukraine!