Veronika Shrayner and Aleksei Stukin are a creative family couple who fled Belarus with their child in 2021. They started from scratch in Lithuania, but unstable income from performances and Veronika’s illness have brought them to the brink of survival.
Svetlana*, fearing arrest, left the country at the end of 2021 and was forced to spend three long years apart from her little daughter. This time apart caused serious harm to the child’s mental state, and to give her childhood back, Svetlana is asking for help to pay for her daughter’s sessions with a psychologist.
Olga served three years for online comments: she went through prison, pressure, and humiliation. Now in exile with her husband, she is asking for help to restore her health and return to the craft that gives her purpose and strength to live.
A political refugee needs financial support for treatment, food, and rent until full recovery from an unexpected injury.
A Belarusian woman with two children has found herself in a critical situation at home and needs help for urgent extraction.
A resident of Homiel, Aleksander Lemieshko, was arrested three times in 2020 – in total, he spent over 30 days under administrative arrest. Today he lives in Poland and is undergoing treatment by a psychiatrist. He needs help to cope with the consequences of political persecution.
Anton, together with his wife and two children, was forced to urgently leave Belarus before the prison term for participating in protests came into force. They need support to rebuild their lives and start anew in Lithuania.
Elena’s family was under KGB persecution for over a year before BYSOL evacuated them to Poland. With two underage children and an elderly mother, they need help to rent housing and buy essential items
I fundamentally disagree with the criminal war against Ukraine and the involvement of the Belarusian side in it.