March 21

To everyone that has supported our cause through donation or expanding our network reach, thank you!

Please read about our teams' most recent accomplishments.

By the Numbers

Despite increasingly harrowing conditions and less reliable supplies, the teams in Ukraine have continued their awe-inspiring pace of humanitarian aid and evacuations. 

• Total number of people evacuated from bombardment zones: 

  • 4,450 weekly

  • 9,950 to date

• Meal delivery capacity of Ukraine teams: 

  • 6,500 daily, including people receiving multi-day meal packages and people fed during evacuations.

  • This week a projected 40,000 people will receive meals funded by Ukraine TrustChain assuming conditions allow continued pace.

Exact figures of medicine, hygienic supplies, first aid, clothing items, protective gear and other basic necessities are even harder to track by the teams on the ground given the intensifying action in key Eastern fronts.

The real-time needs are fairly chaotic, and the team leaders make impossible calls in the field to maximize the impact of the dollars available. Because we have been able to provide stable cash flows to our team, team leaders in Ukraine have started to optimize cost efficiencies and execution through smart relationships with suppliers and specializations among large teams.

Team Leader Spotlight

• Pavel’s team continued its extraordinary evacuation efforts this week by locating orphanages and bringing to safety the most vulnerable. This included evacuating roughly 100 children from an orphanage for children under 5 from the Nikolaev area, and a boarding school for children with special needs from the Kharkiv suburbs; both of these operations had to be performed under active enemy shelling.

• The teams in Ukraine continue to support medical professionals in every way they can so that doctors and nurses can continue to provide urgent medical care to patients.

• One of our team leaders is a florist and even found the space to provide fresh flowers to nurses, doctors, and new mothers who have been sheltering with their newborn infants in basements.

• Teams continue to find economical ways of redirecting resources and supplies as the humanitarian situation deteriorates in Chernihiv, Mariupol, and Zaporizhzhya.

• The Dnipro team partnered with a dairy production facility. They can now supply cheese, kefir, yogurt and other dairy products to civilians in Kharkiv.

Highlights from Natalia's Team

Natalia is our TrustChain flagship team leader in Ukraine and now leads 70+ volunteers in the procurement and delivery of humanitarian aid.  She came to us during the first days of the invasion. We are in awe of her achievements. We want to take this time to highlight some of her unique operations from this week.

Preparing and feeding more than 3,000 people daily, Natalia staffs and manages kitchens and food delivery services. This week her team’s deliveries included sausages in dough to hundreds of civilians stranded at the Kyiv train station awaiting transportation out of shelling zones. 

Before the war, Natalia was a realtor. Real estate agents have been at the forefront of grassroots resistance since they typically have personal transportation and an existing communication network and infrastructure. Even while providing vital humanitarian aid to thousands daily, she took the time to promote equitable housing practices in Western Ukraine which is flooded with refugees. Please see her powerful message to realtors and landowners of Ukraine.

Help us support her efforts to secure ethical and safe housing for displaced Ukrainians by liking, commenting, sharing, or reposting her message.

U.S. Operations Team

• We are clarified in our role and mission – we must continue to support Ukrainian volunteers financially and emotionally. We continue to implement efficiencies which will enhance our ability to accept your generous donation, communicate the real-time impact of dollars spent, and offer long-term financial commitments to our teams. If our teams in Ukraine are secure in their funding, they’ll continue to expand and make an even greater impact.

• We have registered as a not-for-profit organization with the Illinois Secretary of State and prepared our filing for 501(c)3 tax-exempt status with the IRS. We have also obtained fiscal sponsorship with a 501(c)3 organization to accept large donations. Consider sponsoring a team’s weekly needs for less than $15,000. Contact us at donate@ukrainetrustchain.org for more information on how to make a large commitment.

• We are in the process of organizing a webinar for donors to learn more about our teams in Ukraine. Please look for more information on this soon and encourage your contacts to sign up to our mailing list.

• Please support us through donations, but more importantly through outreach and by encouraging your network to support and donate to our organization.