Detailed Project Overview - **Ukraine Crisis** (Kids in Conflict NFT Collection)

Wayne Snow (artist info here - Bio here)

As the Ukraine War rumbles on, with devastating consequences, our feeds fill up with mindless celeb gossip and it’s easy to forget that many people globally are caught up in dire situations orchestrated by mindless people struggling for power. For Wayne Snow these difficult situations have never left his mind. The Ukraine war has been especially difficult due to his friend, creative partner and designbloom touted Konstantin Kofta, being caught in the middle of the invasion.

Konstantin fled Kyiv leaving his home to find shelter outside the city. Snow’s contact with Konstantin is sporadic but thankfully him and his team are alive. Snow had previously commissioned Konstantin’s Kyiv based design studio, Kofta, to produce a limited run of designer backpacks made using their unique and beautiful leather moulding technique. However, only one sample piece was produced before the war. After their recent phone call, in which Konstantin voiced his concern for children who could not protect themselves against the unforgiving onslaught, Snow enlisted the help of his team and web 3 experts iiNDYVERSE to devise a way to support the children’s evacuation.

Considering the one of a kind backpack to be a symbol of the plight of so many Ukrainians that had to pick up and leave their lives behind, with nothing but a backpack to salvage what they could, Snow decided to donate the 1-of-1 backpack alongside creating an open edition collection of NFTs. Commissioning a group of leading visual artists (Mara, The Dons and Ev3reth) who added their creativity and digital interpretation to the symbolic nature of backpack.

Each carefully crafted piece of artwork will be sold as a digital piece, raising money to support the evacuation on children from the warzone. Supported by Paras, iiNDYVERSE, NEAR Protocol and Unchain Fund, who have raised over $9,000,000 for various causes during the war and use a unique method to track funds to ensure donations reach the mothers, fathers and volunteers that need it the most.

Wayne Snow will also be releasing a song that would be made available to all NFT owners.

The website will be live on Wednesday the 8th of June at 4pm ET / 7pm UTC

The digital collect will be available to buy on Thursday the 9th of June at 4pm ET / 7pm UTC

Website: https://kidsinconflict.iindy.co/