Why Seattle Donations Should Flow from Ukraine to Somalia and Beyond

Weeks after the city’s first rallies for Ukraine, Seattle still lights up blue and yellow at night. And rightfully so. With thousands of Ukrainians dead and as many as 10 million displaced because of Russian violence, the European nation can use all the support it can get right now. Many local organizations have stepped up to provide more material forms of aid.

But the outpouring for a humanitarian crisis in Europe has also underscored how little attention similarly dire crises in other parts of the world receive here—and how the war worsens them. “It has consumed me,” says Tjada D’Oyen McKenna, CEO of PNW-based aid organization

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