The
Inertia Network Foundation
About the Foundation
Started in 2022, the Inertia Network Foundation is an independently-registered non-profit entity.
The foundation provides emergency relief and long-term capacity building for emerging humanitarian, environmental and geopolitical crises. Our model combines direct aid with incubating local charity projects in host countries where aid is needed most.
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Crowd-raised for charitable initiatives
Since our founding in the wake of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, we have launched campaigns that have raised over $119,000 to support education, emergency relief, and reconstruction initiatives in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Ukraine.
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Supporting Ukrainians
Our team mobilized in February 2022 to fill the humanitarian need in Ukraine, organizing the importation and distribution of 117.5 tons of food aid, not to mention 15 ambulances, 63 drones, and 38 pallets of medical supplies, totaling over $2.5M. Isaac is still there, 6 months and counting.
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Sending Hazara girls to school
Following both the May 2021 car bomb attacks against a girls’ school in Dasht-e-Barchi in the Afghan capital and the Taliban’s ban on girls’ education past grade 6, we have been working with private schools and home schools in Bamyan to help Hazara girls receive the education they deserve.
Current Projects
Bird of Light Ukraine— Ukraine
BOLU is dedicated to addressing the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine by delivering emergency aid to families that have fled or remain under attack. We work with courageous organizations and drivers taking great risks to deliver food stables, lifesaving medical supplies, and specialty hardware essential for frontline medical care and humanitarian efforts. Thanks to the courage of our Ukrainian partners and the generosity of friends around the world, we are making a meaningful contribution to those facing the horrors of this war.
Secret Girls’ Schools Support Project— Afghanistan
We are working with educators and organizers in Bamyan, Ghazni, Kabul, and Kandahar, Afghanistan to help fund and support underground schools for girls.
Our Founding Story
A series of catastrophic events that directly affected members of our team between 2021 and 2022 led to the formation of the foundation.
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IS-K (Islamic State Khorasan) terrorists in Afghanistan detonate three car and backpack bombs outside a girls’ school in the ethnic-Hazara Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood in Kabul. 85 people are murdered in the attack.
Inertia partner Matt Reichel was working on a story for VICE less than 200 meters from the blast when it occurred.
We immediately began fundraising to help students and their families, as well as education for Hazara girls.
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The Taliban takeover Afghanistan as the government collapses, instantly reversing over 20 years of progress made for many Afghans, especially women, ethnic and religious minorities, and social progressives.
The Afghan economy begins to collapse, as aid evaporates, resulting in a humanitarian crisis. Inertia founders, along with several other travel companies and journalists rally together to support Afghan tourism workers, guides, and fixers.
We collectively raise over $91000 to support over 150 individuals.
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Russian troops invade Ukraine, resulting in millions of Ukrainians being displaced from their homes, thousands of innocent civilians killed, and an economic and humanitarian disaster.
Inertia partner Isaac Yeung was on-ground in Ukraine prior to and during the invasion, being forced to relocate with millions of displaced people from Kiyv to the western part of the country, where we started working on organizing emergency humanitarian support.
