By Kyra Zimmerman | Senior Associate, Disaster Response
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:
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:
By Yuliya Brodska | Ukraine Partnership and Grants Consultant
By Yuliya Brodska | Ukraine Partnership and Grants Consultant
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When a disaster strikes, recovery efforts led by people who live and work in affected communities are often overlooked and underfunded. GlobalGiving is changing this reality. Since 2004, we've been shifting decision-making power to crises-affected communities through trust-based grantmaking and support.
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They were there long before the news cameras arrived, and they’ll be there long after the cameras leave. They know how to make their communities more resilient to future disasters, and they’re already hard at work. GlobalGiving puts donations and grants directly into their hands. Because the status quo—which gives the vast majority of funding to a few large organizations—doesn’t make sense.
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