April 8: Relief Updates

The recipients of donated funds are our colleagues and alumni of our exchange programs and other work in Ukraine. These individuals are community leaders who have established charitable organizations or NGOs in Ukraine. With electricity intermittent and internet increasingly limited, our partners are providing updates as often as is both feasible and safe.

St. Thomas Aquinas Institute (Kharkiv Region) $3,000

• Volunteers are continuing to buy and send medications to the city of Chuhuiv in the Kharkiv region. This time, they made two shipments and plan on extending their activities to other regions with many displaced individuals, such as Kaniv (Cherkassy region) and Kaharlyk (Kyiv region).

Ukr Farm LLC (Kyiv and Boryspil) $3,000

• The funds sent were used to purchase medication and critical emergency supplies, such as tourniquets and hemostatic bandages for border guard units at the military hospital located in the Kyiv region. 

NGO Girls (Bucha and Kyiv region) $1,000

• Funds will be used to provide targeted financial aid to women and children in Bucha, Irpin, Hostomel, and Vorzel who are left without means after the siege and looting by the Russian military. 

Total amount transferred to Ukraine to date is $87,650