Book An Airbnb in Ukraine And Become Part Of The Movement To Help Ukrainians In Need

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In a number of reports from the earlier part of March, people from all over the world logged onto the Airbnb website to book rooms in Ukraine with no purpose of going. That’s because they were all part of a very creative social media campaign that was meant to help fund Ukrainian families in some of the most targeted areas in the country via Airbnb, and not to actually travel there.

From March 2 to March 3, which was basically 48 hours in total, the website earned a whopping $1.9 million for this purpose alone. And since that day, people have continued to book Airbnb’s for this incredible purpose, raising $15 million so far with 434,000 rooms “reserved.”

Company spokesperson, Haven Thorn, said, “We are so humbled by the inspiring generosity of our community during this moment of crisis.” Even the company’s CEO has shared about the movement in a few times on Twitter, as see below.

Aside from the ongoing fundraising happening on the Airbnb website, the business’s non-profit wing, Airbnb.org, has gotten over $5.2 million in small-dollar direct donations from over more than 59,000 individual donors hailing from at least 92 countries.

Moreover, Airbnb also announced that it would set up temporary housing for at least 100,000 Ukrainian refugees all throughout North America and Europe.

Meanwhile, Airbnb hosts have even answered to this generosity with their own donations, while more than 21,000 people even signed up to open their Airbnb-listed properties to Ukrainians, such as 14,000 listing all over Europe and another 4,000 in the United States.


Even other organizations like the Utah Jazz Foundation has chosen to partner with Airbnb.org to provide over 32,000 nights of temporary housing to other refugees that were forced to flee Ukraine. Some share that the number of Ukrainian refugees has already reached exactly 200% of the capacity of the Vivint Arena home stadium of the Utaz Jazz.

Co-founder and chariman of Airbnb.org, Joe Gebbia, said “I cannot begin to express my thanks to the Utah Jazz Foundation for their support of Airbnb.org’s work.”


Moreover, to make things even more comfortable for fleeing Ukrainians, as well as put a much less likely strain on the Airbnb clients, there has been a total of $16,625,000 in contributions to an aid fund that is being used to pay for lodgings, food, and other necessities of the refugees. It’s being funded by Airbnb employees and its co-founders. In fact, one even came out on the Ellen DeGeneres show and announced how they would add an additional $10 million to match the donation.

They explained how they were inspired by the reaction from the Airbnb community and wanted to make sure they were doing their part.

If you are an Airbnb host and you would like to help in the Ukrainian efforts, you can register on the Airbnb.org’s Help Ukraine page.

 

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