Laika Cheesecakes and Espresso will partner with freight company Meest, which delivers shipments from the United States to Ukraine. on Ukrainians’ basic necessities, including medical supplies, items for newborn babies and portable cell phone chargers. Krizma added it’s likely some funds will be spent in the U.S. “These accounts, they have their own logistics and they know exactly what is needed at the moment, so we will most probably send the proceeds there, as they send it to the places where it’s needed the most,” said Krizma. Krizma said the bakery has two beneficiaries it has verified and deemed reliable Save Life in UA and a national fundraising account. Perez said owners plan to donate the money “sometime this week,” but Krizma said a lot is changing daily, leading to discussions about how to use the money to help Ukrainians in the best way possible. “Anna obviously takes it much harder because she literally has family members and friends she grew up with in Ukraine,” Krizma said. For Anna, she’s having to deal with all these things.”Īt the same time she is managing the busy bakery, Afanasieva is trying to keep in contact with family members in Odessa, located on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast. “It got super, insanely busy and then we can’t find cream cheese. “We’re having container issues, so that’s directly affecting us right now,” Krizma said. Credit: Nick Wagner / San Antonio ReportĪs a result of all the new customers, the bakery is dealing with obstacles affecting production. Workers said they sold out of cheesecake less than five hours after opening, selling 1,400 single-serve cheesecake jars and 288 slices of cheesecake to benefit the Ukrainian military and humanitarian groups. Dozens of people stand in line for Laika, a Ukrainian-owned cheesecake and espresso business, on Feb. We never expected it, and the next day we came here and the line was around the building already before we opened,” said co-owner Viktor Krizma. “We posted it on our social media and it went viral instantly. The flow of customers has been steady since then, and the total has risen through donations, said bakery assistant Ricardo Perez Jr. Of the total raised, Afanasieva said in an Instagram post that about $25,000 of the grand total were just donations, excluding sales.
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