August 10, 2022
817 evacuations this week
39,743 evacuations to date
Other Casualties
Before Russia attacked Ukraine, Kseniia ran her own florist business. When the war started, she put aside her art, her business and aspirations, instead mobilizing to become a critical volunteer lead in the efforts to deliver food and supplies to Ukrainians under fire. Her shop became the headquarters of her volunteer teams, and served as the site for the first summit of Ukraine TrustChain teams we assembled in June.
Kseniia’s volunteer work didn’t leave much space for anything else in her life and did not allow her to cover the full rental expense for the space. During Kseniia’s recent trip abroad to secure additional support for her reconstruction projects in Kyiv region, Kseniia’s landlord abruptly ended her lease. In less than two weeks Kseniia was forced to vacate the premises, clearing out the space she poured her soul into. It was yet another sacrifice Kseniia made to continue her selfless work.
Kseniia, pre-war Kyiv
Ukraine Team Milestones
We continue to see an uptick in evacuations. Through Karina we supported the evacuations of 167 people that were moved to Poltava and Uman’.
Aid distribution by Karina’s team
Pavel Shulha’s team evacuated 643 people mostly from Mykolayiv and Zaporizhzhya. As his teams were busy with evacuations and humanitarian distribution, Pavel and his wife went on a daring mission to evacuate three orphans who were living only a few miles away from the active frontline in Slov’yansk.
Andriy’s team reached new levels of efficiency. They took two trips to the bombarded villages around Nikopol and to the Donetsk region. In total they delivered 19.8 tons of aid and distributed 1,055 large family food packages. Coming back from these trips they evacuated 7 people.
In the meantime Andriy’s team continued to distribute aid in Dnipro and his shelters continued to host 186 people, 92 of them on a permanent basis.
Andriy’s Team, aid distribution in the Dnipropetrovsk Region
Inna Kampen’s team distributed 29 tons of humanitarian aid to 12,880 people. In addition to her regular distribution centers in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipro and other cities, Inna’s volunteers were able to push aid into the most dangerous zones of active fighting in Kharkiv region, around the towns of Chuhuev and Pechenehi.
Inna Kampen’s volunteers also held a children’s event and art exhibit for Ukraine in Dnipro.
Dina Tkachenko’s foundation has managed to distribute packages to 1,998 families. In addition to food, her volunteers are collecting blankets, pillows, clothes as well as other items desperately needed by the refugees in the cities, where Dina’s teams operate.
Pavlo Vystratenko continues to deliver aid to the most vulnerable at nursing homes and shelters for people without housing. They have delivered more than 1,500 loaves of bread and aid packages put together by United Nations-affiliated humanitarian organizations.
Mobile clinic Angeliya traveled to Zhytomyr and Vynnytsya to provide free medical help to refugees living there. The team of the clinic this week included four American and three Ukrainian doctors who worked together to provide help to 172 people. Ukraine TrustChain sponsors transportation costs for this initiative.
17 tons of supplies of supplies were delivered to Mykolayiv and Novyi Buh region by Andriy Pilipchuk supported by Oleksandr Davydiuk.
Another team we support through Oleksandr Davydiuk expanded their deliveries of drinking water in Mykolayiv. Despite transportation difficulties and rising fuel costs, the team of Vladislav Kucheryavenko was able to increase water deliveries to 31.5 tons.
Water delivery to Mykolayiv
Our teams continued to find ways to provide aid in the occupied territories. Despite continuously deteriorating situation, our teams were able to distribute more than 320 packages to families in Kherson and Nova Kahovka.
As things heat up in the Kharkiv region, Timur's team delivered an average of 150 packages a day this week. They started off the week unloading the Rotary truck together with Dina's team and then included some of the food that was just delivered in their regular routes. Hundreds of bags went to the nearby villages of Tishki and Triskuni, but not every delivery was successful as many had to be postponed due to Russian attacks.
On a sad note, the house of one of the volunteers that they work within Tishki was hit by the Russians. The volunteer is mostly fine, but one of his dogs was killed and the other was barely saved by surgery in Kharkiv.
Natalia Mitsuta has connected with Chabbad synagogue in Kyiv, assisting them in humanitarian aid distribution and supplying them with dairy products to be distributed to Ukrainians through the synagogues volunteer initiatives.
Tetiana Pasenko working with Natalia Mitsuta organization brought aid into Ukrainian controlled territories of Kherson region that need help as supplies to that area are affected by the ongoing fighting. Earlier in the week, after a regular weekly aid distribution in Kryviy Rih, Tetiana crossed a major milestone of helping more than 9,000 families through the start of this war.
Last week, Ukraine TrustChain was able to fund additional humanitarian aid deliveries. Over the weekend, we funded the delivery for the Rotary Club of Kharkiv. 20 tons of aid were unloaded by Timur and Dina’s teams working together at Rotary’s warehouse. Five tons of aid were immediately distributed to Ukraine TrustChain teams.
US Team Milestones
Our website now provides functionality that allows donors to make a donation in someone's honor. We have also added a module that allows you to look up your employer to apply for corporate matching.
Members of Ukraine TrustChain held an art booth to raise funds for Ukraine volunteers at the Evanston, IL, night market. Thank you to Oxana Fursenko for donating such beautiful artwork that UTC gave as gifts for donations as well as to Natasha Burylina who did face painting for kids at the event in support of volunteers in Ukraine. Read about this event here.
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