August 31, 2022
761 evacuations this week
42,066 evacuations to date
Thanks to your generous support of Ukraine TrustChain’s fundraiser for school supplies for first graders, Dina’s nonprofit organization Vilny Liudy – Vilna Krayina was able to purchase enough items to send 229 displaced first graders to school. Below, you can see the distribution of school supplies for some of these children and the eagerness on their faces.
Ukraine Team Milestones
Dina’s team provided food packages to 1,710 families this week. Dina’s team also worked closely with Andriy Pinchuk’s team to sort through and package medical supply shipments to multiple medical institutions in Dnipro regions, for which our have started getting official thank you letters that we will share with our community in the upcoming week, as the thank you is really to our donors whose funds helped pay for the transportation of these supplies into Ukraine.
As of last week, 220 people were living in Andriy’s shelters. His team continued aid distribution in Dnipro at the pace of approximately 800 people per week. His nonprofit continues to provide medical, emotional, and physical support to children with disabilities and illnesses, doubly impacted by war and trauma
There were more evacuation missions. At the start of the week Andriy’s team also managed to evacuate 9 people from the bombardment zones around Marhanets. 11 more people were evacuated further west to Poland and Austria.
Thanks to our collaboration with Be a Hero we were able to deliver to our three Dnipro teams and distribute 5 tons of soap and detergent.
Last week we completed distribution of small payments specifically to full-time volunteers in Ukraine that have no other sources of income. We continue to feel that it is crucial to support the volunteers themselves, whose energy and dedication enables all the projects our donors have supported. This is the second time we’ve allocated funds to this cause - the first one was reported around May 24. Although the effectiveness and the scale of help our teams provide has only increased there are fewer people involved in the process now as many of the volunteers have had to switch to part-time help.
Pavel’s team evacuated 594 people last week including 230 kids.The evacuations continued from Zaporizhzhya, Kharkiv and Mykolayiv where fierce fighting and bombardments continue for weeks forcing more and more people to move further away from the bombing.
This week we were blessed with an opportunity to meet with Pavel to wish him a happy birthday from our Ukraine TrustChain team. As usual, rather than taking some time for himself, Pavel gathered his team to give them a chance to rest but also to plan upcoming operations.
Karina’s team evacuated 153 people from the Donetsk region and Nikopol’. Her shelter continued to house 89 people.
Karina’s team also helped people still living in bomb shelters in the occupied territories in the East, in the areas where the fighting continues. Lately, Karina has also been supporting an orphanage that had been evacuated from Mariupol earlier.
Oleksandr provides direct support to multiple teams operating on the ground. Last week Oleksandr was taking a volunteer vacation, going to Dnipro and joining the work of Inna Kampen’s organization. This week includes the updates we missed last week.
Yuriy Shuliak traveled to the front line in the Kharkiv region to the city of Chuhuev and Pechenihy. These cities from time to time act as transit point from the occupied territories, with a trickle of refugees making it through the front line from time to time. Lately though the fighting has been intense and people remaining in these towns need humanitarian assistance. Last week Yuriy traveled to Nikopol, evacuating 5 people.
Pavlo Vystratenko brought 4 tons of aid to Bakhmut region, a city that the enemy is methodically trying to raze to the ground but unable to approach due to fierce organized resistance. During the two past weeks Pavlo’s team brought more than 11 tons of aid, either as bulk deliveries or packages. In many cases the volunteers also deliver drinking water as the water mains and basic infrastructure have been destroyed by incessant shelling. In addition to this work, Pavlo continues to bring bread to underfunded nursing homes and rehabilitation centers within Dnipro.
Driving to deliver aid in Bakhmut region
Our teams provide help in the occupied territories in Kherson and Nova Kakhovka. This week our group in Nova Kakhovka helped 350 people.
Other programs that Oleksandr supports function like clockwork. Angeliya Mobile Clinic provided services to 159 patients traveling to Chernihiv and Irpin’. Vladyslav’s team brought in 30 tons of drinking water into Mykolayiv — a process that has become more dangerous with the intensifying bombardment.
Our hearts go out to Inna Kampen who lost her father last week. Her team continued to push major amounts of aid, they distributed 24.5 tons of aid to 10,660 people through her distribution centers.
Natasha assembled shipments into the hot zones in Eastern Ukraine around Pokrovsk. Separately she has been collaborating with other realtor volunteers to gather blankets and warmer clothes for the cold months ahead. She distributed help to 50 refugee families at her Kyiv base.
Earlier in the week, Kseniia traveled to Kharkiv where a small volunteer team is pushing aid to the front line. Kseniia commented on how different the Kharkiv atmosphere is from the one in Kyiv. Bombings of Kharkiv happen throughout the day. It is a true frontline city where one simply cannot succumb to the illusion of peace that sometimes sets in in Kyiv and other cities where signs of destruction and death are not as apparent.
Kseniia couldn’t get as close to the frontlines due to military restrictions and headed back to her base before the two-day curfew set in in Kharkiv region around the Independence Day celebration.
In Kyiv, Kseniia and her team supervised reconstruction efforts while reorganizing and preparing the move to the new headquarters.
It has been a challenging week for Timur’s team in Kharkiv who are likewise heavily impacted by the situation there. Still, his team managed to deliver 180 packages of aid around Saltivka, and purchased more supplies as they were running low.
Nikopol’, August 2022
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