Disaster Response Ukraine Project #55462

Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund

Project Report | Jul 10, 2024
An update on your donation to the Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund

By Kyra Zimmerman | Program Specialist, Disaster Response

Photo courtesy of 'Voices of Children'

Thank you for your generous contribution to the Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund. Two and a half years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, your donations continue to make a difference in our partners’ ability to face even the most tragic circumstances head-on.

Just this week, Russian missile strikes bombarded seven of Kyiv’s 10 districts, damaging many buildings - including the country’s largest children’s hospital, Okhmatdyt. This hospital serves thousands of pediatric cancer patients annually in Kyiv with the support and leadership of GlobalGiving partner Tabletochki Foundation.

Levgeniia, a director at Tabletochki, shared more details with GlobalGiving about this recent tragedy:

“The new building housing the oncohematology and radiology departments was significantly damaged by the shockwave. The full extent of the damage is still being assessed, but it is clear that it is colossal…The children have been transferred to other hospitals, but these facilities are not fully equipped to handle such a high number of critically ill patients.”

In these dark times, your support makes a difference. Alongside a community of supporters from all over the world, YOUR commitment to backing the GlobalGiving Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund meant that our team could send 21 new grants this month to high-impact and community-led nonprofit organizations at the forefront of this crisis, including those responding to the latest missile attack.

Here is a short description of some of the critical work you’ve supported:

Zaporuka Foundation is keeping children’s medical treatment alive amidst a war. This Kyiv-based team works with local organizations and authorities to provide medical support, specifically focusing on helping children and their families navigate conditions like cancer and epilepsy. Since the attack on Kyiv's Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital, Zaporuka's team has been working in the community to continue supplying critical medical care to injured children. They also coordinate with peer groups to restore hospital facilities so they can continue saving lives in Ukraine.

Tabletochki Foundation is also rising to meet the needs of children with cancer through ongoing care, medications, and mental health support to Ukrainian children and their families. Despite the recent airstrikes on Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital, Tabletochki’s team perseveres. They will continue to support pediatric cancer patients across Ukraine—including those relocated from the hospital in the days following this terrible attack.

Voice of Children is a Kyiv-based partner working to ensure that “no child is left alone with the experience of war.” The team operates a network of 15 centers throughout Ukraine that provide mental health and psychological support, counseling, and case management for complex family and child trauma cases. Voice of Children leverages its strong network and reputation to deliver targeted humanitarian aid tailored to community needs—including food, clothes, and other essential items.

LifeLine Ukraine’s vital suicide prevention hotline was also relaunched thanks to the support of donors like you. This lifeline provides 24/7 mental health crisis support to Ukrainians affected by the war and is unique for its ability to continuously operate during electricity blackouts caused by strikes. Their team supports the mental health of vulnerable groups in Ukraine, including the LGBTQIA+ community, and collaborates closely with the Ministry of Health to provide these essential services.

Brokers without Borders is helping Ukrainians sort through the destruction left by Russia’s relentless airstrikes the past two years. Their Ukrainian-led team focuses on emergency repairs of buildings, removal of dangerous landmines, disease control, and medical sector resourcing—including providing urgently needed medicines to hospitals. With GlobalGiving’s support, they are working to complete multiple highly needed infrastructure repair projects that will benefit communities across Ukraine.

Ukrán Remény Egyesület (URE) is creating networks of care for Ukrainians forcibly displaced to Hungary due to the war through education and community integration support. URE offers courses at its center to help Ukrainian children in Hungary overcome language barriers hindering their education. As a small organization meeting a crucial need for a population often left behind, even modest support fuels its programming for several months. Your gift provided crucial funding for URE’s administrative costs, such as rent for its Center, allowing the organization to focus on its team's long-term sustainability and expanding its vital services.

Carpathian Foundation Slovakia also supports the needs of Ukrainian refugees displaced to surrounding countries. Their team supports civil society organizations (CSOs) in Eastern Slovakia, including organizations focused on education, child protection, and aid for refugees in the region. The Carpathian Foundation of Slovakia also provides a continuum of care in partnership with local CSOs in Ukrainian cities, and through its strong ties with the Carpathian Society of Ukraine. Importantly, CFS also uniquely ensures continued services to the marginalized Roma community displaced by the war, who are often overlooked in humanitarian aid and local service provision.

Here is what Svitlana at UA Brokers without Borders wants you to know about the impact of your donation:

“Thank you so much for trusting us this much and helping us further our work in Ukraine. This grant goes a long way toward strengthening our organizational capacity in the next two years."

Your support of the GlobalGiving Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund powers locally-led responses, meaning our partners can respond to their communities' immediate and long-term needs.

You can find a full list of nonprofits recently funded by the Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund at the end of this report. Further updates will follow as we continue supporting our partners in the months ahead.

Together, our actions can create waves of impact—even in the most challenging of circumstances. We cannot say it enough: Thank you for your continued support.

With gratitude,

Kyra + the GlobalGiving Team

Partners Receiving Grants:

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Feb 25, 2024
An update on your donation to the Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund

By Kyra Zimmerman | Senior Associate, Disaster Response

Photo: NGO Smart Osvita

Thank you for your generous contribution to the Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund. Two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, your donations continue to make a difference, helping to ensure our partners can address the immediate and long-term needs of Ukrainians, host communities, and others impacted by the war.

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, the world has witnessed the war displace communities and leave thousands of innocent people dead, injured, and traumatized. For many Ukrainians, violence and displacement started in 2014, when Russia invaded the Crimean Peninsula and subsequently annexed it. Many of our partners have been responding to war for a decade now. Their persistence and care remain a priority. Though Ukraine continues to be attacked, funding for emergency and recovery efforts have slowed down, further jeopardizing communities. That’s why GlobalGiving is committed to supporting partners strategically and into the years ahead.

Since we last updated you, donations from the Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund have supported more than nine grants to high-impact and community-led nonprofit organizations at the forefront of this crisis.

Among the activities that you have supported, we would like to highlight how your generosity is providing critical psychological help to communities, including frontline responders. On average, one in five Ukrainians currently needs some form of mental health support. This includes children who experience stress from air raids, displaced families struggling to integrate into their new communities, as well as people traumatized from losing loved ones or who are separated from them. Nonprofit organizations are working to address communities’ needs daily. However, nonprofit staff, doctors, social workers, and teachers also are experiencing high levels of stress, uncertainty, and burnout. Thanks to your donation, we are able to support our partners to both bolster their mental health and service provision for the communities they serve, and support care for themselves.

Here is a short description of some of the critical work you’ve supported:

Nezabutni Charitable Foundation is a Ukrainian organization that supports people with dementia and their family members. Nezabutni, which means “unforgettable” in Ukrainian, is establishing “Memory Cafe” events—meetings for people with dementia and their relatives. These cafes include workshops, a chance to communicate with peers, combat loneliness, and allow Nezabutni to offer support to caretakers who are at risk for compassion fatigue from caring for loved ones with dementia amidst violence and war.

NGO Smart Osvita ensures that education is not left behind in the response to support displaced Ukrainians, including refugees in other countries and internally displaced families. Smart Osvita is helping Ukrainian children reduce their missed learning time by offering free online education courses for Ukrainian language, history, literature, and English language. These courses have been designed by the Smart Osvita team and experts to especially fill gaps in what Ukrainian refugee children would learn if regularly enrolled in Ukrainian schools in an effort to help Ukrainians stay connected to their homeland.

Irida Women’s Shelter (IWS) is a participatory and inclusive center in Greece for women from around the world, including Ukrainian refugees. IWS continues providing protection, psychosocial, and education services—including job-readiness classes—as well as legal counseling for Ukrainian women and children seeking refuge from the war in Greece.

Slovak Red Cross, Bratislava City is implementing a new financial assistance program for uninsured adults with chronic diseases who have been displaced to Slovakia as a result of the war on Ukraine. Specifically, the nonprofit offers flexible funding to Ukrainians to purchase essential medical treatment and medicine to stay well. On a daily basis, the Slovak Red Cross also helps Ukrainian refugees with ad hoc psychological aid when requested, urgent health care, food, hygienic equipment, and supermarket vouchers. Starting in January 2024, the organization opened a community center that offers daycare services for Ukrainian children.

National Network for Local Philanthropy Development is a Ukrainian partner supporting dozens of community foundations in Ukraine. Over the coming year, the National Network will provide financial assistance to strengthen its members’ capacity, expand its membership, and provide learning opportunities for community foundations. These are important investments in nurturing a culture of philanthropy toward sustainable development of communities in Ukraine, including those affected by the war.

Here is what Halyna at NGO Smart Osvita wanted you to know about the impact of your donation:

“Thank you for supporting our work! ... We did not want to have to say to children, ‘Sorry, but we do not have a second semester of study.’ Now we can continue teaching Ukrainian students those subjects that they do not study in the countries they temporarily reside in due to war."

Your support of the GlobalGiving Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund powers community-led responses, and it means nonprofit organizations like Smart Osvita get the critical resources they need to help their community persevere despite years of war. You can find a list of nonprofits who have recently received a grant from the Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund at the end of this report. We’ll send you more updates as we continue to support our partners into the years ahead.

With gratitude,

Kyra + the GlobalGiving Team

Partners Receiving Grants:

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Dec 28, 2023
An update on your donation to the Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund

By Yuliya Brodska | Ukraine Partnership and Grants Consultant

Photo: Children Of Heroes Of Ukraine Foundation

Thank you for your generous donation to the Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund. Donations to this GlobalGiving Fund continue to make a significant difference for communities impacted by the war on Ukraine as we approach the second winter since the war began.

I recently visited Lviv in western Ukraine, where many internally displaced people live. I was able to witness firsthand the impact of your donations as I connected with our partners.

As the full-scale war continues to be waged on millions of people, GlobalGiving’s partners are facing both ongoing and new needs. Many families remain separated, critical infrastructure is at risk or damaged without repair, and the toll of the war on people’s minds and bodies is rising. Your ongoing generosity is helping people with disabilities, children, the elderly, those trapped by the fighting, marginalized communities such as LGBTQIA+, Roma people, and others in need of support.

Since last September, donations from the Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund have supported nine grants to high-impact and community-led nonprofit organizations at the forefront of the crisis in Ukraine and across refugee-hosting communities where millions have fled since February 2022.

Here is what one grant recipient wanted you to know about the impact of your donation:

“This generous contribution is a ray of hope for the children who have lost their parents due to the ongoing war in Ukraine. Your support is truly a gift that will make a significant difference in the lives of these vulnerable children, especially as winter approaches.” —Kateryna Pozinenko, Children Of Heroes Of Ukraine Foundation

Here is a short description of some of the critical work you’ve supported:

Kharkiv rehabilitation centre 'Pravo vibora' has the goal to improve the quality of life and integration of children and youth with disabilities into society through rehabilitation. The organization focuses on people with visual impairments in particular. Their work in Ukraine and in Germany is ensuring people are not left behind in the response to the war.

Children Of Heroes Of Ukraine Foundation works with Ukrainian children and their families who have lost one or both parents to the war, delivering the urgent and long-term support they need in the most difficult moments. For example, the organization has been providing laptops and other learning tools so children can continue their learning amidst severe disruptions to education and the loss of family members.

International Charitable Organization Roma Women Chiricli is providing support to Roma communities with a focus on women, children, the elderly, and people with disabilities. Roma populations have historically faced challenges in accessing services, and Chiricli is filling these gaps by ensuring Roma have access to education, humanitarian, legal, and psychological aid, advocacy, and social entrepreneurship opportunities throughout Ukraine—including during the current cold season.

Your support of the GlobalGiving Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund powers community-led responses, and it means people affected by the war in Ukraine receive vital help now and in the years to come. Stay tuned for another update in early 2024, with a focus on longer-term support for partners. You can find the latest list of nonprofits receiving a grant from the Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund at the end of this report.

With gratitude,

Yuliya + the GlobalGiving Team

Nonprofit Partners Receiving Grants:

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