This week, the Pryirpinia Community Foundation donated antibiotics worth UAH 67.8 thousand to the Vyshneve City Hospital and a maternity hospital in Bucha district for a similar amount as part of the Social Medicine Program, totaling UAH 5.8 million. This was reported on the Facebook page of the Public Council at the Bucha District State Administration.
At the beginning of this week, the Charitable Foundation “Pryirpinia Community Foundation”, with the assistance of the Public Council at the Bucha District State Administration, handed over a batch of Indian-made antibiotics Moxetero to the Vyshnya City Hospital utility company for a total of UAH 67,798. The volunteers also donated 200 packs of Moxetero to a maternity hospital in Buchanan district for the same amount.
According to the head of the foundation, Tatyana Lagovskaya, the humanitarian aid was handed over to the hospital in Vyshneve as part of the Social Medicine program implemented by the organization since the end of February this year. The Indian-made medicines worth over UAH 4 million – antibiotics Flucap 74, Linezolid-hetero, Moxetero – were provided by the benefactors The final recipients of the program are residents of Buchanan district who cannot afford medicines costing from UAH 400 to 800 per pack of 10 pills, as well as IDPs, military personnel fighting at the front line, and wounded soldiers being treated in hospitals and clinics.
During the first week of the program, hundreds of packages of medicines worth more than UAH 280,000 were delivered as humanitarian aid to Vorzel, Mykhailivsko-Rubezhivske and Gostomel general practice clinics and hospitals in Vinnytsia where wounded soldiers, including those from Buchansk district, are being treated. The needs of the outpatient clinics in the district are coordinated in effective cooperation with the Deputy Head of the Bucha District State Administration, Mr. Danil Mavlyanov.
In addition to antibiotics, Lagovska said the program includes medical supplies (sterile and disposable surgical gowns, surgical instruments, bandages), which are currently to be delivered by the foundation’s volunteers from abroad. Among the recipients of such medical supplies is even the Kyiv Military Hospital of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. “Thanks to the fruitful and effective cooperation with the governor of Kyiv region in 2022 Oleksiy Kuleba, and now the acting head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration (KORA) Dmytro Nazarenko, our drivers go to Germany, Poland, and Slovakia as volunteers. And they bring back in their cars what our fellow countrymen from Bucha, Irpin, Vyshneve, and other towns and villages of the Bucha district have collected in these countries,” says the director of the charity foundation.
According to Oleksandr Tygov, Head of the Public Council at the Bucha District State Administration, the antibiotics will be distributed free of charge to the IDPs in Vyshneve. According to Mr. Tygov, other organizations that are members of the Public Council are also providing humanitarian aid to medical institutions. For example, last week the Local Communities Movement handed over medical supplies to St. Peter’s outpatient clinic.
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The presentation of the Olena Zelenska Foundation, wife of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, took place at a charity evening in New York at the venue presented by the Metropolitan Opera.
As reported on the website of the head of the Ukrainian state on Friday, the Foundation’s primary goal is to restore Ukraine’s human capital “so that every Ukrainian feels physically and mentally healthy, protected, and able to exercise their right to education, work, and build a future in Ukraine.”
“Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, we have managed to do a lot. We have organised 20 convoys of life, which made it possible to evacuate more than 550 children with cancer to hospitals in Europe, the USA and Canada. We hosted the First Ladies and Gentlemen Summit to raise money and purchase more than 80 ambulances. We evacuated children from orphanages for their temporary stay abroad. We provided humanitarian aid to family-type orphanages. But every day brings more and more requests and needs. More funding is needed. That is why I am creating the Foundation. The Foundation will make it possible to significantly scale assistance to people and provide proper treatment and decent education to everyone who needs it,” Olena Zelenska said.
The Foundation has three key directions: medicine, education and humanitarian aid. Within these areas, it will provide targeted assistance, invest in reconstructing preschool and school education institutions, polyclinics and outpatient clinics, and provide grants for training and scientific developments. For anyone interested in learning more about the Foundation, please visit zelenskafoundation.org for more information.
“The war goes on, but so does life. It paves its way to recovery even during the war. The task of the Foundation is to help life win. And for this, we need hospitals, schools, and education,” Olena Zelenska said.
The First Lady noted that global political and business leaders gathered this week for the 77th UN General Assembly in New York. They also became the guests of the charity evening on the occasion of the Foundation presentation. In particular, the event was attended by: former US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs of the United Kingdom James Cleverly, General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York Peter Gelb, American TV host and actor Jimmy Fallon, actor Matt Damon, actress Brooke Shields, as well as a wide circle of diplomats and businessmen. All guests of the charity evening on the occasion of the Foundation presentation could contribute to the reconstruction projects in Ukraine.
The President of Ukraine joined the charity evening remotely from Kyiv. “We are fighting for freedom and protecting our people. We are doing everything possible to engage our friends – friends of freedom – worldwide who are willing to contribute to our struggle,” Volodymyr Zelensky said.
The Mindy Charitable Foundation, together with the Kantar Ukraine research center, intends to conduct a study of mental health of the population in war conditions.
The foundation told Interfax-Ukraine that the study will be carried out with the financial support of the charitable foundation and the volunteer cryptocoin UAFcoin, created by the Ukrainian crypto social network Sl8 (sl8.online) to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The first stage of the study started early August 2022. The respondents of the online survey will be citizens of Ukraine.
“The consequences of war include, in particular, long-term metal damage that in the future may negatively affect society, destroy families and communities, disrupt the development of the social and economic structure of nations. The study will help identify problem areas and improve mental health of the population, which plays a critical role on the way to victory in the war,” the foundation said.
The study will be conducted in Ukrainian cities with a population of more than 50,000 people. The age of the respondents is from 18 to 55 years. Study participants will be randomly selected from a representative sample. A team of Ukrainian psychologists and leading research institutes worked on the study program.
The purpose of this survey is to collect information that will provide answers to the level of formation of a culture of psychological assistance and the needs for its formation and development, to determine the state of mental and social health of Ukrainians. This study will help in the work of volunteer and government organizations that provide support to Ukrainians during the war.
Mindy Charitable Foundation is a charitable foundation that implements a nationwide social and humanitarian program for the reintegration of war victims into active life. The Foundation specializes in psychological aid, physical rehabilitation on the basis of the partner international network of REGUS business centers, support in prosthetics, vocational guidance and training in various industries, employment by quotas and social adaptation.
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Charitable Foundation (CF) “MHP-Gromade” launched a program to help small businesses in 11 regions of the country, as a result of the competitive selection of business plans, entrepreneurs will be able to receive 50-100 thousand UAH for the implementation of their start-ups.
Representatives of the MHP-Gromade charitable foundation, which is part of the MHP agricultural holding, announced the launch of the corresponding competition during a press conference at the Interfax-Ukraine agency on Monday.
It is specified that this project is being implemented annually, however, in the context of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the fund plans to focus on grants for internally displaced persons, military personnel and their relatives, as well as people who have lost their homes due to the Russian invasion.
“For the first time, MHP launched this competition in 2016. During this time, 250 business ideas worth over UAH 11 million were supported. In 2021, this project was implemented by MHP-Gromade in partnership with the United Nations Development Program in the country and with the support of the Government of Sweden “, – said the director of the BF Tatyana Volochay.
According to her, in 2022 the competition is held in 11 regions of the country – Vinnitsa, Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Lviv, Cherkasy, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Khmelnytsky, Chernihiv, Sumy and Volyn regions.
Representatives of the fund will rob the most viable startups twice a month and issue grants to their authors for the implementation of the project.
The implementation of this project will contribute to the development of the Ukrainian economy, replenish the state budget and help the Ukrainian army, form a business asset in small towns and villages, and motivate the growth of entrepreneurship.
MHP is the largest chicken producer in Ukraine. It is also engaged in the production of cereals, sunflower oil, meat processing products. On the European market, MHP supplies chilled half-carcasses of chickens, which are processed, including at its enterprises in the Netherlands and Slovakia. In February 2019, the agricultural holding completed the acquisition of the Slovenian company Perutnina Ptuj.
MHP generated $393 million in net profit in 2021 against a net loss of $133 million in 2020, while its revenue grew by 25% to $2.37 billion.
The founder, majority shareholder and head of the board of MHP is Ukrainian businessman Yuriy Kosyuk.
The Rinat Akhmetov Foundation is the most famous Ukrainian charitable organization, according to a survey conducted by Info Sapiens.
“So, 94.3% of the polled Ukrainians named it without prompting. In second place is the International Committee of the Red Cross (70% named it), in third place is the Pinchuk Foundation (45.3%),” Info Sapiens said in a report on the results of the study released on Friday.
Only those organizations that scored more than 1% of spontaneous knowledge about Ukraine in November-December 2021 were included in the list. It is assumed that if the study were conducted now, the Come Back Alive Foundation and other funds that help the Armed Forces of Ukraine would have made the list, but before the war they scored less than 1% in spontaneous knowledge.
In addition, the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation is the leader in philanthropy in Ukraine. Almost half of Ukrainians consider the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation the largest charitable organization in Ukraine. 76% of Ukrainians positively assess its activities.
