Become a Volunteer

We have a group of approximately 15 volunteers assisting with everything, starting from help getting out of Ukraine and ending with arranging gymnastics lessons for children. More bios coming soon.

In Gdynia Poland

We need help picking up refugees, getting them acclimated to Gdynia, helping them get documentation so they can work and go to school.

Already some of our moms have gotten jobs at local florists and kids have enrolled in school

Anywhere in the World

Part of our mission is to play a part in the “Information War” so the world knows what is happening on the ground inside Ukraine and what is happening to the women and children refugees impacted by this war.

Help us by joining the conversation on twitter @hummingbird_us (like, follow, retweet). We are a bunch of moms that just learned twitter too!

We do not have Facebook or Instragram yet, so contact us if you can help set up and manage it.

Help Our Refugees Earn an Income

These people have lost their homes, their livelihoods and every aspect of their daily lives have been turned upside down.

They want to go back to normalcy or as close as they can to it. These women when they come to Gdynia, they are looking for jobs.

Here is how you can support:

  • Alyona from Rivne got a job two weeks after arriving at a florist. She is making wreaths. You can buy one on Etsy (store coming!)
  • A group of women are making Pierogies from their homes. 

Volunteers

Britni Erez:

Britni Erez joined the Hummingbird Effort Foundation’s “volunteer” team after sending a simple text to her friend, Dorota, to check and make sure Dorota’s family was okay given the crisis in Ukraine. Dorota’s simple response of “I started a foundation” was all that was needed for Britni to join Dorota and Maja to help Ukrainian refugees.

Britni is no stranger to helping to start grassroots organizations. Following the 2004 Tsunami, Britni helped two doctors start a disaster relief foundation in Khao Lak, Thailand. She interned for UNDP while in graduate school, worked in field research in Malawi and most recently in 2021 co-led a hyper local movement in lower Manhattan called #Pausethesaws which led to the creation of the Battery Park City Neighborhood Association where she is currently a founding board member.

Britni earned her BA from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA and Masters in Public Policy for the University of Michigan. For the past ten years, she has worked in Corporate Finance at American Express.

Tomek Brylski:

Tomek Brylski has become a volunteer in the Hummingbird Foundation due to his strong links to Ukraine. He is one of the founders of a construction company, Safort Sp. z o.o., which has many employees from Ukraine. When the war started, Tomek and his partner as well as many of their employees started daily trips to the border (8-9 hours a day) to bring the Ukrainian men who decided to return to Ukraine and defend their homeland and collect the families of their employees and friends and bring them to one of the properties we have secured.

Karolina Sudwoj-Nogalska:

Karolina is a passionate and result-oriented marketing professional and educator, who apart from her strong views on shared responsibility and accountability believes also in a shared success. She engages in voluntary work with equal drive as she attends to her students or business partners and believes we all share responsibility for those in need. She hopes to embed these values in her two young sons by setting example and including them in conversation about important events around the world.

The unique experience from six countries on three continents where she has lived and worked over the past 20 plus years give her a unique perspective of the world at large.

Bartek Jung

Karolina is a passionate and result-oriented marketing professional and educator, who apart from her strong views on shared responsibility and accountability believes also in a shared success. She engages in voluntary work with equal drive as she attends to her students or business partners and believes we all share responsibility for those in need. She hopes to embed these values in her two young sons by setting example and including them in conversation about important events around the world.

The unique experience from six countries on three continents where she has lived and worked over the past 20 plus years give her a unique perspective of the world at large.