world have connections to Ukraine, and when war broke out, they
each rushed to help colleagues and friends.
A group of partner organizations focused on Microsoft Dynamics,
either based in Ukraine or with offices and employees there, have
now started a unified campaign to support their Ukrainian
colleagues and friends.
DynamicsUkraine.orgaims
to raise money to support the over 700 Dynamics professionals and
their families in the country.
“ArganoArbela, Clarity, Enavate, Global Mediator, OntargIT and
SIS are unified in our goal to serve our team members, their
families, and clients in this community at this difficult time,”
the group explains on the new site.
Viktor Lesiv, a Dynamics veteran, VP of SIS, and a native of
Ukraine, explained in a video message:
This war has changed the world upside down…The Russian army is
still shooting and killing a lot of civilians and destroying
Ukrainian cities. In the last two weeks, our Ukrainian employees,
in addition to their Dynamics skills, Azure skills, Power Apps
skills, IoT and all the other technologies, learned new skills such
as how to survive under air attacks, how to hide when you’re being
bombed, how to escape danger, how to hide and sleep in basements,
and many other skills that no people should possess and should have
in this modern world. Your Dynamics colleagues and their families
are not safe and require our help.
Volodymyr Svyrydenko, founder and CEO of OntargIT, lives in
Seattle but has been in Ukraine during the war. In a video, he
asked the community for help, saying:
This nightmare must be stopped, the future of the world depends
on the courage of Ukrainians and your support.
DynamicsUkraine.org is the latest in a continued effort by
Microsoft partners to encourage fundraising for Ukrainian aid.
Ellipse Solutions has
encouraged donationsto Razom for Ukraine and
Red Cross of Ukraine. Sana Commerce are
raising
fundsfor Zhytomyr Community Fund to purchase medical supplies
and emergency equipment to aid in the defense of the people in
Zhytomyr, a community near Kyiv that has reported heavy damage from
Russian attacks, including to hospitals.
Major technology companies are making other moves related to the
war.
Microsoft,
SAP,
Accenture,
Oracle, and others have both announced the
suspension or closing of their Russian businesses.
