The International Movement Global Citizens has submitted proposals to the Bavarian government for humanitarian cooperation with German non-governmental humanitarian aid donors and has urged one of Germany’s authoritative and famous politicians, Markus Söder, Minister-President of Bavaria, to consider direct cooperation between German humanitarian aid providers and non-governmental medical associations in Ukraine, under German supervision.
The message reads, in part:
Direct contact between Ukrainian NGOs and the absence of a third party in the chain mentioned above of supply of humanitarian makes it possible to eliminate the corruption component in the distribution of humanitarian aid and guarantees that will not use the German humanitarian received assistance for purposes other than those for which it is intended and was declared by Ukrainian medical associations.
Guided by the traditions of humanism and charity which have long been the foundation of the German nation spirit, by the end of April, 752 million euros had been donated in Germany for people in and from Ukraine. This represents the highest volume of donations for a single disaster in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany, as the news magazine “Spiegel” reports, citing a survey by the German Central Institute for Social Issues (DZI). The previous donation record was 670 million euros for the tsunami victims in Southeast Asia in 2004, followed by 631 million euros in aid following last year’s disastrous flooding in Germany.
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