Our Team And CONTRIBUTOR Network
Nelleke de Vries is currently in prelaunch and is being built around a small core team,
lived experience, protected story contributors and
a trusted professional network.
This page introduces the people, roles and stories connected to the project.
Some are active contributors, some are part of the protected mission archive,
and some are represented through family story, memory, documentation or lived experience.
Not everyone shown here is staff, and not everyone provides services.
Some names and stories are included because they helped shape
the mission and the human meaning behind Nelleke de Vries.
We handle these profiles with care and limit personal details where privacy,
safety, age, family circumstances or war related exposure require protection.
Nelleke de Vries does not present this team as a military unit,
official aid organization, medical team, law enforcement body,
licensed investigation agency,
licensed security company or emergency response service.
We are building a commercial service provider focused on practical support,
privacy, safety, documentation,
communication structure and calm systems for people under pressure.
Dragon Auntie..
Support, Structure and
Contributor Network Voice.
Dragon Auntie
is a support and structure contributor
connected to the wider mission network.
Her background includes project management, international coordination, education, analysis and practical support for people operating under pressure.
She has supported frontline connected volunteers and families by helping make difficult information clearer, safer and more usable. Her work is connected to structure, communication, documentation and the human pressure around people who try to keep functioning in extreme circumstances.
Within Nelleke de Vries,
Dragon Auntie is not presented as a therapist, doctor, licensed mental health professional,
military actor or official authority.
Her role is practical and supportive.
She helps bring order to complexity,
supports safe communication and contributes
to the wider understanding of how unusual
people often build unusual systems
when normal systems fail.
Her voice helps protect the mission
from becoming a flat story.
She understands that pressure, autism,
online communities, volunteer networks and crisis work can overlap
in ways that outsiders often miss completely,
because apparently life declined
to organize itself into neat categories.
Heleen Schoorl..
Home Front Voice and Lived
Experience Contributor.
Home Front Voice and
Lived Experience Contributor
Heleen Schoorl is part of the
Home front story behind Nelleke de Vries.
As Edward Nevada’s fiancée, she was not physically on the ground in Ukraine, but she carried another kind of pressure: waiting, listening, worrying, staying connected and living with the emotional impact of a long civilian mission shaped by war.
The home front is often invisible, which is convenient for people who prefer simple stories and terrible at understanding reality.
Heleen’s role within Nelleke de Vries is connected to lived experience, family pressure, recovery, loyalty, sensory sensitivity, autism aware support and the need for calm systems when life becomes too much.
Her perspective helps the company remember that crisis does not stop at the frontline. It reaches homes, relationships, routines, communication, health and the people who need predictability most.
Heleen does not provide medical treatment, therapy, diagnosis or clinical support. Her role is personal, human and experience based.
She reminds us that a mission does not always end when someone comes home. Sometimes, that is when the hardest part begins.
Nelleke de Vries..
Company Identity
and Operating Structure.
Nelleke de Vries
is the company identity being built
from the mission record,
lived experience and practical lessons
that followed Edward Nevada’s
Ukraine civilian mission.
This is not a personal profile of Edward Nevada.
Nelleke de Vries is the name of the
commercial service provider in formation.
The company identity stands for structure,
privacy, documentation, practical safety,
calm communication and legally
limited support for people under pressure.
Within the website and public communication,
Nelleke de Vries represents the
perating structure that turns
mission experience into services.
It helps organize the archive, protect privacy,
shape public wording, clarify boundaries
and keep the work readable,
lawful and safe.
Nelleke de Vries
does not claim government authority,
medical status, law enforcement authority,
charity status, military authority,
icensed investigation status,
licensed security status
or cannabis operator status.
It is being built as a practical,
privacy conscious and safety
focused service provider
with clear legal limits.
Edward Nevada..
Founder, Mission Lead and
Civilian Documentation Lead.
Edward Nevada
is the founder
and mission lead behind
Nelleke de Vries.
According to Edward Nevada’s mission record,
his civilian mission connected to the war in
Ukraine began on 22 November 2022 at 12:00
and was successfully closed on
20 April 2026 at 21:59.
During that full mission period of 41 months,
Edward spent approximately 32 months
working almost continuously inside and near the active frontline pressure zone,
often within 22 to 0 kilometres
of frontline pressure.
His work was civilian in nature.
It focused on practical support,
communication, documentation,
digital safety, civilian logistics,
family pressure, daily support
systems and the protection
of mission records.
Edward does not present this work as
combat service, military command,
intelligence work,
weapons support or tactical planning.
Within Nelleke de Vries,
Edward focuses on mission structure,
practical risk reduction, digital privacy,
documentation, crisis aware planning,
frontline support insight,
home front impact and
safer systems for people living under pressure.
His experience shows how ordinary systems
can become essential under stress.
Food, phones, power, documents, washing,
routes, trust and communication
can become the difference between
chaos and basic function.
Nelleke de Vries was built from that reality.
No fake hero story. No operational details.
No theatrical war branding.
Just the documented reality of a
civilian mission and the practical lessons
that came from it.
Marine Youral..
Field Story Contributor
Marine Youral
is connected to the story network
around the Ukraine mission.
His profile is handled carefully because field experience connected to war, safety or specialist work can easily be misunderstood when placed on a public website.
Within Nelleke de Vries,
Marine Youral is presented as a
field story contributor, not as a public instructor,
not as a weapons expert, not as a
tactical adviser and not as a provider
of operational services.
His connection to the project is part of the
wider human archive around pressure, survival,
discipline, work and memory.
Any detailed background,
specialist role or sensitive experience should
only be published with clear permission
and after privacy and safety review.
The purpose of this profile is not to create spectacle.
It is to recognize a human contribution
while keeping operational and
personal details protected.
The Yakushenka Family..
Protected Family
Story Contributors
The Yakushenka family
s part of the protected story network
connected to the mission archive.
Their profile represents family
life under pressure, civilian endurance,
volunteer reality and the private cost of war.
They are not presented as staff,
service providers or public officials.
Their story is included because families
are part of the reality behind crisis work.
War does not only affect those who
stand closest to danger.
It also reaches kitchens, children, routines,
homes, health, documents, communication
and the quiet parts of life that usually
never make it into official stories.
Nelleke de Vries
handles family profiles with privacy first.
Personal details, locations,
children’s information
and sensitive circumstances
should remain limited. Any publication
involving family members, especially minors,
should be based on clear
permission and careful review.
Their story is not used as decoration.
It is part of the
human truth behind the mission.
Alina Holovan..
Family Story Contributor.
Alina Holovan
is connected to the protected family
story archive behind Nelleke de Vries.
Her role is not presented as staff
or service provider. Her profile belongs
to the human side of the mission: family,
care, survival, pressure and the strength required
to keep life moving while war reshapes
everything around it.
As a mother, her story is connected to protection,
daily responsibility and the quiet work
of keeping a family together when normal life
s disrupted.
Nelleke de Vries treats this profile with care.
Details about family life, location,
children and private circumstances should
be limited and published only with permission.
Her story matters because crisis is
never only public. It is private,
daily and carried by families
long after the cameras move elsewhere.
Andrewka Holovan..
Family Story Contributor.
Andrewka Holovan
is connected to the protected
family story archive of Nelleke de Vries.
His profile represents the working parent,
the caregiver, the person carrying responsibility
while life around the family is shaped
by pressure, displacement,
uncertainty and survival.
He is not presented as staff, service provider,
public official or operational actor.
His place in the project is human and personal.
It reflects the family side of war, where care,
work, routine and protection
become daily acts of endurance.
Nelleke de Vries limits private details by design.
Family profiles should protect dignity,
safety and consent first.
Andrewka’s profile belongs to
the archive because family responsibility
is part of the mission story,
not a side note.
Rima Holovan..
Protected Child Story Contributor.
Rima Holovan
is part of the protected child
and family story archive
connected to Nelleke de Vries.
She is not staff. She is not a service provider.
She is not presented
as responsible for public work.
Her profile should be handled with
extra care because children affected
by war deserve
protection before visibility.
Rima’s story represents the reality of children
growing up around pressure, displacement,
uncertainty and adult problems
they should never have had to carry.
For that reason, Nelleke de Vries limits
personal details about children.
Information about age, location,
family circumstances, school, routine,
medical details or private history
should be minimized and published
only with appropriate family permission.
Her story matters, but her safety matters more.
That is the rule.
Baby Yakushenka..
Protected Child Story Contributor.
Baby Yakushenka
is part of the protected family story archive
connected to the Ukraine mission.
This profile is not a staff profile and not a public role.
It represents how war reaches even the youngest lives
long before they can understand
the words adults use to describe it.
Nelleke de Vries treats child related profiles
with special care. Identifying details, locations,
family circumstances and private information
should be kept limited and should only
appear with appropriate family permission
and privacy review.
A child’s story should never be used
as marketing material.
Where a child is included in the archive,
the purpose is dignity, memory and protection,
not exposure.
Veronica..
Protected Young
Story Contributor
from the Donetsk Region.
Veronica
is part of the protected story archive
connected to Edward Nevada’s Ukraine mission.
Edward came to know her through
epeated encounters during the mission,
where her quiet strength, work ethic and presence
became part of the human record of the area.
Her profile should be handled as the story
of a young person affected by war,
displacement and survival,
not as a normal team member
or public worker.
Veronica represents children and families
from the Donetsk region who have lived
through years of uncertainty, movement,
loss and rebuilding.
Her story is one of endurance,
dignity and becoming.
At the same time, Nelleke de Vries
must protect her privacy. Exact personal details,
current location, family circumstances
and unnecessary identifying
information should be limited.
If her image, name or story is published,
it should be done only with
appropriate permission and careful review.
Veronica’s story deserves respect,
not exposure.
That difference matters.
Gompie..
AI Assisted Structure and Writing Support
Gompie is an AI assisted
internal writing and structure role
used by Nelleke de Vries under human review.
Gompie is not a person, not a soldier,
not a war reporter, not a legal adviser,
not a medical adviser, not an emergency service
and not an independent decision maker.
The role of Gompie is to help structure text,
organize difficult material, support clearer wording,
reduce chaos, protect tone and help turn overloaded information into readable public communication.
Gompie may support drafting, summarizing,
translation, structure, privacy aware wording,
website text and documentation logic.
All sensitive use must remain under human review.
Gompie does not replace human judgment,
legal advice, medical advice, privacy review,
consent, professional assessment or
emergency decision making.
No AI generated material should be presented
as verified evidence, real people, official records
or final professional
judgment without proper review.
Gompie
Helps create structure.
