The images of the war in Ukraine are shocking. If you want to help, you can do something – for example drink a spritzer. All proceeds from an artist campaign benefit the organization War Child.
With an aid campaign, musicians such as pop singer Sasha and pianist Joja Wendt want to collect money for children in the war-torn Ukraine.
“Now we just have to do everything we can to ensure that the children in this situation in particular get out of there as unscathed as possible,” said 50-year-old Sasha – whose real name was Sascha Röntgen-Schmitz – of the German Press Agency in Hamburg.
Together with Wendt, guitarist Chris Vega and the Hamburger Seemannschor, Sasha recorded his song “Lichterketten” and the song “Freiheit” by Marius Müller-Westernhagen in Hamburg. With the help of a QR code, the music can be called up on so-called “Love and Peace” spritzers in the Ukraine colors blue and yellow.
“100 percent of the proceeds from the sale of the spritzers go to the War Child organization,” said initiator Jan Schierhorn. The London-based international organization helps children in war zones and also cooperates with the Klitschko’s “Weareallukrainians” initiative.
“I’m trying to keep the bridge to Kyiv,” said Tatjana Kiel, who has worked for the Ukrainian Klitschko brothers Vitali (50) and Wladimir (46) for 17 years and has been organizing aid transports to the country invaded by Russia since the beginning of the war. “These are exactly the actions we need to show that we can and must all stand together.” (dpa)