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The articles below share stories from passionate Business as Mission entrepreneurs, their businesses and about the aid in Ukraine.

99 year old Tatyana grows potatoes

99 year old Tatyana grows potatoes

With bags of potatoes and bags with seeds besides them on the street, four ladies are waiting till a car comes to pick them up. ‘This helps us a lot. We have a lot of children to feed’, says one of the ladies named Viktoria. ‘There is no work in the village, but...

When the shooting was finally over, the flood came

When the shooting was finally over, the flood came

About twenty men and women are digging up beetroot. That is too early, because most of the roots are not yet fully grown. But they have to. Farmer Halyna needs money to pay for a new delivery of fertilizer. So the workers choose the largest ones to sell at the market...

Ukrainian farmer restarts

Ukrainian farmer restarts

Tatjana Sus gives a tour of her company. She shows machines that sterilize vegetables, mix salads, produce tomato puree and pickle raw coleslaw. There is not much activity at the moment. The largest room is filled with humanitarian aid. She collects it and distributes...

Hippotainer – BAM business in a box

Hippotainer – BAM business in a box

The 'Hippotainer' is a sea container where crops grow above each other in an extremely efficient manner, also known as vertical farming. It is an innovative pilot project that, after planning, drawing, realization and testing, is now rolled out further in Ukraine with...

This work stays important and has to continue

This work stays important and has to continue

Cokky de Visser retired in 2022. Since then, she spends her time for Ukraine. “When the war started, the Reformed diaconate of Kootwijk and Kootwijkerbroek wanted to start a work group. This suited me because I have no obligations during the day and want to be of...

“Our potato yield will be excellent.”

“Our potato yield will be excellent.”

Farmer Ivan Ivanovich peers into the distance, where black smoke curls up. "Do you see that? That's an impact. Something is on fire.” Nevertheless, the farmer continues undisturbed with the tour of his lands, which he gives driving his car. “These are my strawberries....

In the midst of war, gardening gives us hope

In the midst of war, gardening gives us hope

When the sun rises over the front village of Veselyanka, Svetlana first prepares breakfast for her two daughters. After that, she puts the girls, aged 7 and 13, to work at the kitchen table: the local school has been closed for over a year, so their education happens...