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"For a time, a city of half a million people on the plains in southern Ukraine
wavered on the edge of uninhabitable.
Electricity blinked on and off. Orange, salty water sputtered from kitchen
faucets. Out in the darkened, deserted streets, jagged ruins of bombed
buildings appeared as omens of a grim future.
Then came an improbable twist. The city, Mykolaiv, was adopted by the Danish
government a month into the war. Denmark has since directed 60 percent of all
its Ukraine reconstruction aid to this one city, using it as a test bed for
assistance policies that could be applied across the country.
The Danish project is a traditional country-to-country aid program that
contrasts with a Trump administration plan that would focus on for-profit
ventures in rebuilding Ukraine. Denmark’s work is aimed at mending both the
physical landscape and the social fabric. And the city is now bouncing back.
“I don’t know why Denmark chose us, but it’s the best luck we ever had,” said
Dmytro Tarasenko, an adviser to the regional governor.
Rebuilding war-damaged Ukraine is likely to become the largest reconstruction
effort in Europe since the Marshall Plan after World War II. It will require
hundreds of billions of dollars in aid and investment."
Via Joerg Fliege.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
