Ukrainian people need help.

362^nd day of the war in Ukraine

There are three days left until the date when it will be a year since the russian aggressor has been trying to turn the life of every Ukrainian into a nightmare, and our country into ashes. For A WHOLE YEAR they keep our country and our people in fear and tension. We adapted to the constant blackouts, found a way to connect Wi-Fi without electricity, learned how to move around a dark, unlit city. Every time when the electricity is on, the first thing we do is charging all the gadgets and flashlights. Despite these attempts to break our Ukrainian spirit, we remain strong, we hold on and fight, continue to work and help those who need it.

Every Ukrainian is forced to listen to the loud sound of a siren every day during an air raid, and before that we heard this sound only in horror films. But even after a year of active hostilities, we are NOT used to it, we are not used to these whistling sounds of flying missiles and loud explosions. We are not accustomed to waking up in the middle of the night and running to the bomb shelter, the basement or the corridor, using the “two-wall rule”.

Despite everything, our team continues to work, we continue to help people every day. Therefore, people's requests for help are only growing every day, there is a need for electric generators, powerbanks for IDPs, for warm clothes and thermal underwear, since without electricity in most of the houses there is no heating.

With your support on the basis of IDP HUB, our beneficiaries can receive the following services:

Humanitarian Services:

• Distribution of food kits

• Distribution of hygiene kits

• Distribution of household kits

• Distribution of medical kits

• Distribution of baby kits

• Distribution of clothes and shoes

• Access to the Internet and the possibility of using a laptop

• Free professional photo sessions

• Hot tea, coffee, snacks in the HUB

Psychological Services:

• Individual psychological consultations

• Group psychological consultations

• Psychological information sessions

• Conducting trainings

• Conducting children's master classes

• Conducting art therapy activities for children

• Work of a children's room with a teacher

Social Services:

• Escort to non-governmental organizations for obtaining additional services

• Escort to government institutions for obtaining public services

• Address delivery of humanitarian aid

• Emotional support

• Collection of urgent beneficiaries needs

• Case management and beneficiary’s support

• Escort to medical and preventive institutions

• Possibility of employment of IDPs in the Projects of organization and involvement in volunteer activities

• Free HIV and STD testing

• Provision of informational materials

Other Consultations, Services and re-addressing:

• Legal consultations

• Consultations of a medical worker

• Consultations on obtaining financial assistance

• Consultations on the conclusion of the declaration with the family doctor

• Consultations on employment

• Consultations on the restoration of documents

• Consultations on free temporary housing

• Escort to the border of those who wish to leave for another country

Every day, Staff of the HUB provides humanitarian, psychological, social, legal and medical assistance to more than 100 vulnerable families, and together, we already supported more than 17,000 families of IDPs and locals.

On behalf of all our big team, we would like to thank GlobalGivingand everyone whosignificantlyand timely supports us, for the feedback and warm worlds during these year. We will never stop our work and will always try to achieve even greater results,in our goal to satisfy more and more needs of Ukrainians who need our help.

2023 has been declared the year of our Victory. So be it!

Glory to Ukraine!

Keeping work even without electricy.

Links:

• Link on the Organization Facebook page

Many events have taken place in Ukraine over the past month. One of the most important is the liberation of the Kherson city from the occupation of the rusian aggressor and its return under the control of Ukraine. Kherson city and the Kherson region were occupied almost from the first days of the war (about 9 months), people could not even leave their houses and go to a safer place due to shelling of public cars and buses with women and children inside who tried to evacuate to safer cities of Ukraine. After the occupation, the rusian troops left behind many bombed-out buildings, schools, hospitals and buildings of the city's critical infrastructure. Half of the region was left without electricity, but rusian terrorists did not stop shelling the city.

Today, many local people of the Kherson region are forced to evacuate to safer regions of Ukraine, one of which is Odesa. Therefore, the number of people who need our help is growing every day. Thanks to your help and support of the project "Ukrainian people need help" by the support of GlobalGiving, the staff and volunteers of our organization during the 9 months of the war were able to help more than 10,000 families of internally displaced persons and 5,000 families of the local population, providing psycho-social support and humanitarian aid.

In mid-November, the rusian aggressor purposefully began firing missiles across Ukraine at critical infrastructure buildings. The purpose of such attacks is to break the spirit of the Ukrainian people and leave us without electricity, water, heat and Internet. But we are indomitable, we try not only to adapt to life in such conditions, but also to help each other.

The number of requests for warm clothes, thermal clothing, warm blankets, power banks, and small heaters is increasing. The winter of this year for Ukrainians will be the hardest in recent history. Therefore, thanks to your support, we will be able to warm-up many Ukrainian families.

Our large team is very grateful to you for your trust and support! We would like to share with you two stories of internally displaced families who were able to receive timely help.

One of the cases in our work is related to a forced migrant from the city Bakhmut, Donetsk region - a lonely pensioner. A 67-year-old man contacted our social worker with a request to receive information about any financial assistance. Mr. Andrii (name changed), told us his difficult story of how he was left homeless after a rocket hit his house. Due to the lack of a roof over his head, he was forced to evacuate urgently - without enough money, without clothes, without documents and under constant fire. When he turned to us, he was in a very difficult emotional state - confused, exhausted, apathetic. First of all, we offered him the help of our psychologist and booked him for an individual consultation and transferred him to a case manager for follow-up. Thanks to our project by  GlobalGiving, our social workers created an individual work plan with him - a psychologist, lawyer, socialization, housing and restoration of documents. The lawyer also helped to resolve the issue of payments in connection with the destruction of real estate. We were able to provide him with clothes and shoes, dishes, a blanket and personal hygiene. Case manager also helped him to register for financial help.

We are always glad to see our uncle Andrii, who comes to us regularly just to talk and express his gratitude for help and humane attitude. Always glad to see you, Mr. Andriy!

Story 2 

For more than a week, our staff member watched the new neighbors on the floor. At first glance, an ordinary family - mother, father and 3 children, but something again and again drew attention to them. Probably a professional sense helped - it turned out that the house is rented by a family of IDPs from Donetsk. "It is very warm here in October," a woman once said. This is how our colleague accidentally found out that they were forced to move because of fear for their children. Husband Sergey, wife Inna and three children. They arrived 2 months ago and did not receive anything and knew nothing about the work of public organizations. It was by chance that they found out about our organization and our project by GlobalGiving – “Ukrainian people need help”. The first time they came to our oorganization to receive a food, hygiene and household kits. At that time we had humanitarian aid in the form of clothes and shoes. Serhii and Inna got dressed, put on shoes and found clothes for their children too. They said that now they are unemployed, and Serhiy was working as a construction worker in Donetsk, we managed to find him a part-time job (plastering the facade of the house). And Inna arranged to clean the courtyard area. We also directed them to receive financial assistance provided by international donors and they applied. Serhiy and Inna are very grateful for the attention shown to them and the help provided and regularly come to events for children, with Inna to a psychologist. Unfortunately, Serhiy cannot come often, because there is a lot of work!

Links:

• Video about the work of the project