October 19, 2022
46,668 people evacuated from danger to date
477 people evacuated this week
The week began and ended with massive attacks that hit residential areas and civilian infrastructure in all of the cities where our volunteer teams operate. Despite being rattled by the explosions, our teams either ignored the attacks or jumped right into action with even more fervor, helping clean debris in Dnipro, pushing additional aid to Kharkiv and the liberated areas, and evacuating more people from Mykolayiv and Zaporizhzhia. Nevertheless, the continued deterioration of the power grid within Ukraine is a major and growing concern for everybody within Ukraine. We need to find ways to do more to ensure that people continue to receive aid, have places to warm up, and have a warm place to sleep. Although our reserves continue to decrease, we do not want to slow down the flow of funding to our teams during this critical period.
We are focusing on continued fundraising ahead of the year-end giving season and on conversations with larger foundations that may be more open to providing a grant to Ukraine TrustChain given the proven record we have been able to establish since the start of the war. We also ask for your help to spread the word about the life-saving work of our teams. An additional one-time donation or signing up for recurring donations will help to ensure that more people get support in Ukraine.
Ukraine Team Milestones
Timur’s Team
Timur and his team are relentless when it comes to ensuring that they deliver as much aid as possible. The team delivered 1,000 packages of aid to the Izium area as well as 300 packages to feed the Kupiansk refugees in Kharkiv this week. Candles were part of this distribution, as people continue to live without power, and though hard to believe, candles have become a growing need among our deliveries. These deliveries were in addition to the regular deliveries of over 500 packages around Saltivka and over 100 packages specifically for children.
Karina’s Team
Karina’s work was disrupted by continued terrorist attacks in Dnipro. In the immediate aftermath of the massive terrorist attack last Monday, Karina supported transportation costs for many volunteer groups who began work on cleaning up the debris. Karina’s team cleaned up apartments for 31 families. Her team distributed food to 80 people staying in two Dnipro hospitals. Her shelter continues to house 80 people. In the same period, evacuations from Kramatorsk and Bahmut continued. Last week Karina’s team evacuated 61 people.
Dina’s Team
Dina’s nonprofit organization distributed 1,330 packages of food this week, in addition to 67 blankets that they delivered to senior citizens to their homes in Kharkiv where they do not have heating as winter approaches. Her team also brought 33 blankets to Kupiansk to deliver to families with children. In Krasnokuts'k, they distributed nearly 2 tons of warm clothing to displaced people. Her team also found a cost-effective partner that produced 100 blankets to deliver to displaced people in Poltava. Dina’s team continues to send aid to the hot zones, where people are living without food or electricity.
Inna’s Team
Inna Kampen’s group provided help to 10,690 people distributing 42.2 tons of humanitarian aid. More than 10 tons went to Kharkiv and Kharkiv regions. Similarly, her group continues to provide sustainable assistance to the people of Nikopol who have experienced daily artillery attacks for many weeks. Last week, her group helped 260 families in Nikopol. 1.6 tons of aid were delivered to Zaporizhzhia specifically into the neighborhoods that were hit by last week’s vicious bombardments.
Kryvyi Rih
Kharkiv Region
Tetiana’s Team
This week Tetiana's team distributed aid to 100 families in Smila. They stretched the dollar even further by getting fresh, in-season produce from local farmers. Tetiana and her team also returned to the summer camp housing internal refugees and delivered the necessities they asked for: heaters, shower cabin, food, medicine, hot plates, and other goods. The extra expenses for the camp were covered by the generous supporters who donated to the Facebook fundraiser Ukraine TrustChain ran.
Pavel’s Team
Pavel and Olena are returning from their trip to Europe. In the meantime, their evacuation teams continued to run evacuations from Mykolayiv, Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv via Vinnitsa. Pavel’s team evacuated 416 people; this includes the evacuation of 161 kids. In the same period, 5,950 families received large food packages from their group.
Volunteer Alena Prezhibolska in Odesa
Congratulations to Alena Prezhibolska, our trusted volunteer based in Odesa, who registered an NGO Diva Volunteer Initiative.
Kseniia’s Team
Kseniia’s team reported completing construction on three more more UTC-funded homes in the villages around Kyiv. They have also continued their steady progress on the reconstruction of the school in Novyi Bykiv village in the Chernihiv region funded by the “STIFTUNG” foundation.
In previous newsletters we have mentioned that Kseniia supports a volunteer team in Kharkiv headed by Darya, who heads out on daring missions weekly. This week Darya delivered aid to the villages of Kovsharivka, Kurylivka, and other places Easy of Kupiansk. These villages are the areas of active fighting. With bridges mostly destroyed and due to ongoing shelling, the volunteers had to carry supplies across the river to deliver aid.
In the meantime another team supported by Livyj Berih continued to operate in the Kherson region in the occupied zones. The situation is volatile there, as pro-Russian forces attempt to identify and detain volunteers distributing humanitarian relief.
Andriy’s Team
Andriy’s shelters continued to house 124 people. Also, the rehabilitation center Ioaniv Tsentr - run by Andiry’s team — has opened a hostel that will allow parents of the kids undergoing treatment at the facility to stay nearby. Andriy’s team traveled to Mogyliv delivering food and supplies to 85 families there.
Oleksandr Davydiuk’s Teams
Oleksandr Davydiuk continued supporting multiple nimble teams throughout Ukraine:
Mobile clinic “Angeliya” has traveled to the deoccupied Izium. Their doctors helped 82 people there.
The city Mykolayiv seems to be moving in the direction of adopting the solution to the drinking water crisis that is similar to the one being implemented by the volunteer teams we sponsor. It was reported that the city is planning to establish 130 locations for the transported water distribution. In the meantime, volunteer teams led by Vladyslav Kucheriavenko delivered 35 tons of water last week.
Oleksandr continued providing targeted support to three organizations in Lutsk and Lviv, focusing on promoting development activities for children with disabilities and children from refugee families.
Although unfortunately we cannot share details yet for security reasons, Oleksandr continued to support two teams providing humanitarian aid in the occupied cities of Kherson region.
US Team Milestones
A big thank you to the Ukrainian-American Crisis Response Committee of Michigan for supporting Ukraine TrustChain with their fundraiser in Belle Isle on Sunday, the 16th. The funds raised will go to help rebuild schools in Ukraine. Please read in the Detroit News about this successful event and incredible effort in support of Ukraine.
Though the decision of the Nobel committee to award the Nobel Peace Prize to a Russian and Belarus NGOs along with a Ukrainian one - has stirred significant controversy, we are proud that the Center of Civil Liberties is the Ukrainian recipient of this prestigious prize. Ukraine TrustChain have partnered with the Center for Civil Liberties exploring new ways to tell the stories of Ukrainian refugees and help spread the information about the atrocities committed by Russia in Ukraine. We are honored to congratulate our friends at the Center of Civil Liberties with this incredible achievement.
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