Jay Vaysman, President of the Foundation. Born in Kharkov, where he graduated from the Physics and Mathematics Lyceum #161 at the Kharkov University of Radio Electronics, and also studied at the Faculty of Energy, Electronics and Electro mechanics at the Kharkov Polytechnic University.
Jay is the father of five children. He is distinguished by a restless spirit and great energy – both professionally and in the social sphere. Jay became a US citizen almost 30 years ago, but before the time when he decided to direct all his efforts and energy to work in the field of social entrepreneurship,
He gained extensive and quite diverse professional experience. In particular, at Temple University in Philadelphia, Jay studied to be a programmer, he began working as a programmer in 1994 and as a programmer he successfully worked at a fairly high level for more than 10 years. In addition, starting in 1998, he simultaneously began to try himself as a producer in joint Ukrainian-American projects in the field of show business, and also collaborated (until 2002) with entertainment printed publications in the United States, as well as with the Komsomolskaya Truth in Ukraine” (in a number of social and advertising projects of this publication in the USA)…
However, after 2002, Jay increasingly felt an inner need to reorient his aspirations to work in the field of providing humanitarian assistance to people who found themselves in difficult life situations provoked by natural disasters and armed conflicts.
And Jay’s strongest impetus for this was the many years of tension in the Horn of Africa, which led to a huge amount of human suffering resulting from the escalation of the Somali crisis by Islamic fundamentalists in the fall of 2011 , as well as the heroic, and at the same time tragic events of recent years in Ukraine. Namely, the Revolution of Dignity in November 2013 – February 2014 and the subsequent armed attack by Russia on Ukraine in 2014, which led to Russia’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine and hostilities in the territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and especially a full-scale military invasion of Russia which unleashed a war of aggression against Ukraine on February 24, 2022 – which led to the fact that
On December 7, 2022, the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations adopted a Resolution that recognizes Russia’s actions against Ukraine as genocide of the Ukrainian people.
As a result, after many years of volunteer work and without publicly advertising this activity, Jay, in January 2023, created the International Charitable Organization “Worldwide Lifeline “, which on April 6 was qualified for Federal status 501 (c) (3) and the work in which he now devotes all his time.
