June 7
Volunteers working with Ukraine TrustChain have evacuated 35,592 people to date (713 people this week). They continue to provide aid to and feed thousands every single week.
Ukraine Teams Milestones
Pavel’s team evacuated 422 people. As of the time of writing this newsletter Pavel’s team had just completed a successful visit to Donbas. His team is also making trips with aid into Sievierodonetsk where people are living without food, electricity, water, or gas.
Pavel's team brought a generator and wired a lightbulb to run from it in this basement shelter where people who refuse to evacuate are hiding.
Dina's nonprofit “Vilny Ludi - Vylna Kraina” – “Free People - Free Country” has distributed 2200 packages of aid to people in multiple centers, including Merefa, Kremenchuk, Kanev, and Poltava. She continued to mail aid packages to people all around Ukraine and continued to provide aid for Kharkiv. Here is the breakdown of distribution of aid this week:
Free meals at humanitarian kitchen - 300 daily
Merefa: 150 food packages
Kremenchuk: 116 food packages
Poltava: 200 food packages
Kanev: 200 food packages
84 packages of medicine
110 packages of aid sent to families with children around Ukraine
27 packages of aid to people with disabilities right to their homes in Dnipro
General food distribution: 900 packages in Kharkiv
Kseniia was in Krakow and Przemysl in Poland securing humanitarian aid, and is on her way back to Kyiv with Ukraine TrustChain’s Daniil. He will be joining her to deliver aid to liberated areas of Chernihiv and in Kyiv to deliver food and medicine. Her team will also be continuing renovations to damaged houses.
Karina’s team evacuated 72 people, distributed aid to displaced people in and around Dnirpo, and continued to run the evacuation center where another 44 families arrived this week.
Last week, Igor Vietrynskyi completed a complex multi-stage project bringing a major shipment of medical equipment to the surgery department of the Bogomolets National Medical University hospital.
Andriy Pinchuk’s team managed to evacuate 219 people from Slovyansk, Kramatorsk and Bakhmut. The evacuations suffered a temporary setback due to fuel shortage after June 1st, but this week evacuations will resume. The shelter continued to operate as usual.
US Teams Milestones
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Ukraine TrustChain is now part of the Ukraine NGO Coordination Network. This will make it easier to coordinate operations and cooperate with two dozen NGOs working on the ground in Ukraine.
Ukraine TrustChain’s founder Daniil is in Kyiv meeting with volunteer teams and helping with aid distribution efforts. Follow his journey home and his meetings for the first time with our trusted volunteers on our social media.
Ukrainian Paralympic Swimming Champion: Darya Kopaeva
Darya Kopaeva, a decorated Ukrainian paralympic swimmer, is also a volunteer helping people with disabilities in Dnipro. She reached out to Ukraine TrustChain on May 11th asking for help sourcing food, medicine, and hygienic products. Our organization has a detailed process for aid requests in Ukraine, and one of our US team members connected with Darya; several days later, Dina, our team lead in Dnipro, reached out to Darya who shared her needs. Dina and another volunteer helped put together packages of food and hygienic products, and they began distribution.
Before the war, Darya started an organization called “Mama Zmogla” (Mama Can) which helps parents with disabilities or to parents of children with disabilities. During the war, she expanded her efforts to include any people with disabilities who need help. She cares for 27 people by preparing and distributing aid packages to all of them.
Darya writes about her life:
My father is half Ukrainian and half Russian; my mother is Russian. Here, in Ukraine, I was born, here I grew up, here I worked, and here my son was born. And even when I moved to Mexico, I didn’t change my allegiance to Ukraine, though I was an accomplished athlete and two coaches from Mexico fought over me… But I decided to return and stay in Ukraine. This is my home. But now there is war here. And I’m afraid. I’m afraid probably because I’m a mother. After all, I’m responsible for his life.
And I decided this: we cannot evacuate. We are home. Despite how hard it might be, we must stay. Who else but we – Ukrainians – should lift up our home?
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