Help medics save lives in Ukraine! Every contribution makes a difference.
I'm running a data science Workshop for Ukraine to help raise money for Ukraine's defense! You can see more info about the session (Sept. 11, 2025) on the official workshop page.
In the unlikely event that you don't want to attend my 2-hour workshop on using generative AI and the R programming language 🤣, you can still help! A donation of 20 euros or 20 US dollars will allow a student to attend for free. Or just donate any amount — every little bit helps! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ANY CONTRIBUTION!!
Your first step is to donate directly to Leleka, an American-Ukrainian charitable partnership purchasing urgently needed medical equipment. (This way workshop volunteers don't have to handle any money.)
Donate to Leleka FoundationAfter donating, take a screenshot of your receipt. Use one of the links below to either sponsor a student's admission or register for the workshop yourself:
Prefer email? No problem. Just send your donation screenshot to smachlis+workshop@gmail.com and I'll handle the form for you.
My workshop is part of an all-volunteer project started by Ukrainian PhD student Dariia Mykhailyshyna to help her country's defense efforts. To date, Workshops for Ukraine has achieved:
If you're interested in data science but not my particular workshop, you can check out the many others available on the project's main website or in my searchable table with chatbot. Find an interesting workshop that already happened? You can still donate to get access to recordings and materials from past workshops.
I wrote about this initiative for InfoWorld: Learn a Skill and Support a Cause.
If you prefer, you can donate to send money directly to the Ukrainian Army instead of (or in addition to) Leleka. Here are two other Workshops for Ukraine donation options: