Kiev, Europe Brief News – A joint crowdfunding campaign has been launched to protect Ukrainian endangered heritage.
The Europa Nostra and Global Heritage Fund have first launched the campaign.
It mainly aims to help those working in the cultural heritage world as well as those who have been rendered refugees in their escape from Russian aggression.
It will also distribute the donations to organisations and individuals in Ukrainian country, directly or through our members and partners in Poland, Romania or elsewhere in Europe.
These funds will provide emergency assistance to heritage custodians that are trying to save endangered cultural treasures in Ukraine, as well as to displaced heritage professionals, inside of outside Ukraine, who are trying to escape violence and death.
Donations can be made via the Global Heritage Fund website or the Europa Nostra website.
“Today, the rich and diverse heritage in Ukraine is THE most endangered heritage in the whole of Europe,” Sneška Quaedvlieg-Mihailović, Secretary-General of Europa Nostra said in a press release on Friday.
Nada Hosking, Global Heritage Fund Executive Director, followed up with a warning that cultural destruction is “often a desperate attempt to erase collective history and identity.”
UNESCO’s World Heritage Director Lazare Eloundou has recently expressed his fears as fighting reaches Kyiv.
“A site which for us is of great concern is the city of Kyiv, which is a World Heritage Site. This site has two very important ensembles: the St. Sophia Cathedral and also the Lavra monastic complex. These two places are testimony to the birth of the Russian Orthodox Church.”
