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AESL Pärnu Funding update

AESL is proud to announce that Estonians in Australia have raised their initial target of $15,000, and well before the due date at end of July.

We would like to thank all those who have donated, and your names will be published soon.

Comparing by population, we are way ahead of all other countries, including Sweden, Canada, Germany, England, etc.

We are actually past this target, (although our target was 10,000 euros, which may be closer to $16,000).

But we will not stop

The targets were set to raise the base amount of 60,000 euros for the memorial statue, to be raised from the worldwide diaspora. Now that we can see us achieving this amount across the world, we in Australia want to continue fundraising efforts to ensure the monument is created and unveiled in September. Any extra funds collected will be used to get a suitable plinth for the memorial statue, to landscape the area around this memorial, and to provide suitable lighting to this memorial.

So we have reset the target for Australia to $20,000, as we believe that this is a once-in-a-lifetime project, which will see a memorial in Eesti to our parents and all others who had to escape the soviet purges.

“ MINNA EI TAHA, KUID JÄÄDA EI SAA ”

“DO NOT WANT TO GO, BUT CAN NOT STAY”

Many community members have graciously shared their family/1944 stories as part of this campaign. A list of these published stories are shown on the monument landing page and can also be found in the AESL news section.

All donors will be acknowledged on the AESL website in due course. We are also in discussions with UEKN as to how they will acknowledge donors for this testament to our parents and grandparents.


This was published with permission via Estonian Archives in Australia in support of the Mass Flight Memorial. The AESL are seeking donations until 31 July 2024 to make this memorial a reality. Please consider making your donation today. If you have a story to share about your family’s mass flight experience, please write to us at news@eesti.org.au