NAFO receiving a Giving Back Powerhouse Award at The Estonian Startup Awards 2022
You can get involved helping Ukraine www.help99.co and www.adoptadrone.org
Ragnar Sass as NAFO dog :)
Hosts - Kai Isand and Tim Vaino
Presented by Triin Preem startup segment manager of Swedbank
Now, passion dedication, humility and impact, the winner of this category gives back without asking their contribution undoubtably has made our whole Community stronger in 2022. The next category is Giving Back Powerhouse. And the top three finalists are: NAFO, United delivery Mission and Taavi Kotka. To hand over the wards. I'm inviting to the stage Triin Preem, Swedbank.
Good evening. I'm really honored to be here and to present this award of Giving Back Powerhouse because I think it's really important especially this year. So let's all try to take a second and really understand how privileged we are. That we can be here tonight and celebrate the success of our community. I think it's it's an amazing opportunity for us and let's not take it as a granted and let's not take our freedom is a granted, and if there is a possibility to support others, then be brave and do it as you can. And let's do it together as we can, like the fellas from NAFO are doing.
I am the least deserving person to get up on this stage because in NAFO is a very, very broad movement involving people across all companies, met different people here tonight and I have to mention lift99, which has really been the headquarters of NAFO Estonia. So, NAFO is a global movement committed to supporting Ukraine and fundraising for Ukraine getting vital supplies to Ukraine Lift99. In the co-working space, where many of us met and started our journeys, co-founded by Ragnar Sass, it opened up in kyiv a few years ago before the full-scale war and when the full-scale war Began, they didn't abandon the entrepreneurs there. They kept on, they organize, their NAFO brigade and just start sending supplies. So, when you walked in here tonight, you saw lots of NAFO vehicles outside, that's part of the next Convoy that's going to go soon. 128 vehicles have been sent by LIFT99 and its network of volunteers. And actually, I know like all of you whether you're part of NAFO or not have done so much to support Ukraine and like, it really does not go unnoticed online around the world every day. I go online and I see people in Ukraine and elsewhere saying like, wow, I never knew anything about Estonia before this terrible war began, but look how much they're doing to support Ukraine. They do you know they're not abandoning Ukraine and
You know, I see people in Ukraine saying the first place I'm going to go after Victory is Estonia or the Baltic states because that's where my true friends are. So we're really building longterm friendships that are going to continue after Victory. Now, all of us, all of you can get involved. I've got a plug www.help99.co which is lift99's, main website for fundraising. And, you know, you can drive the vehicle down to Ukraine. You can paint camouflage on vehicles at the weekends or, you know, you can just help support online. That there's so many different ways to get involved. There's there's adoptadrone.org, if you want to help fundraise for drones to go in the supplies as well. So there's 128 Vehicles, all packed with supplies, really vital supplies.
So yeah. So this is an award that has been won by many thousands of people across many companies and going to tell them that were people around the world that like they've been recognized in Estonia. Thank you for everything they're doing, so yeah, Slavic Ukraine!
