They escaped the bombs, but found a different kind of war: silence. Displaced to villages too small for aid trucks and too far from the news, Ukraine's forgotten families wait for help that never comes. Our Mobile Station drives the last mile - so no one is left invisible.
When Russia invaded, displaced families flooded Dnipro. Free housing ran out, rents tripled. Thousands relocated to small communities - Pavlohrad, Pereshchepyne, Sofiivka - where rent is cheaper but aid does not reach. Big NGOs concentrate in cities; government payments take months. Until aid arrives, these families have nothing but second-hand clothes. Frontline towns like Chasiv Yar and Bakhmut are abandoned almost entirely. Small villages get forgotten in this war.
In June 2022, Pomogaem launched its Mobile Humanitarian Station - a team and vehicles that drive where aid does not reach. In the first month, we made 10 trips: 7 "cold runs" to small communities, 3 "hot runs" to frontline towns like Chasiv Yar and Bakhmut. We delivered $39,000 of aid to over 1,000 families in 30 days. Each family gets a tailored package - food, hygiene kits, and a non-food kit (bedding, blankets, dishes) - plus diapers as needed. Partners: Save the Children and others.
This is a sustainable model: by partnering with international NGOs (like Save the Children) and Ukrainian foundations for the goods, and providing the logistics and last-mile delivery, every donor dollar stretches 5-10x further than direct aid. As the war continues, more families displace into rural communities; the Mobile Station scales with the need. The methodology - last-mile aid for forgotten villages - is exportable to any future humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and beyond.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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