23 December 2018
ANOTHER GREAT UKRAINE CHARITY YEAR IN REVIEW
As another year comes to a close, we hope that you are able to enjoy its remaining days with friends and family and having some time for rest and enjoyment. Before we, too, take a short holiday break, we would like to briefly reflect on the charity's key accomplishments in 2018, which could not have been possible without your continuous and generous support:
- We continued our cooperation with long-time partners, Orphans Future (Ternopil), Care in Action (Lviv), the Ukrainian Philanthropic Network (Ivano-Frankivsk) and Detdom.info (Kyiv) to provide over GBP 10,000 in funding for family-style orphanages and other programmes for orphaned children;
- For the second year in a row, we supported GoCamp East, providing over GBP 7,000 in funding together with the EBRD for Ukrainian children living close to the conflict to learn English and other foreign languages in a safe environment;
- We also worked with the EBRD to provide GBP 7,000 for the Mykola Pekh scholarship for students with disabilities or other hardships at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv;
- Additional recipients of Ukraine Charity funding included the Kraplynka Centre in Kyiv, which provides developmental activities for children of internally displaced families, and the Dzherelo Children's Rehabilitation Centre in Lviv.
We are very proud of these achievements and so thankful to have such amazing supporters and fundraisers enabling us to pursue our mission.
- We continued our cooperation with long-time partners, Orphans Future (Ternopil), Care in Action (Lviv), the Ukrainian Philanthropic Network (Ivano-Frankivsk) and Detdom.info (Kyiv) to provide over GBP 10,000 in funding for family-style orphanages and other programmes for orphaned children;
- For the second year in a row, we supported GoCamp East, providing over GBP 7,000 in funding together with the EBRD for Ukrainian children living close to the conflict to learn English and other foreign languages in a safe environment;
- We also worked with the EBRD to provide GBP 7,000 for the Mykola Pekh scholarship for students with disabilities or other hardships at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv;
- Additional recipients of Ukraine Charity funding included the Kraplynka Centre in Kyiv, which provides developmental activities for children of internally displaced families, and the Dzherelo Children's Rehabilitation Centre in Lviv.
We are very proud of these achievements and so thankful to have such amazing supporters and fundraisers enabling us to pursue our mission.
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We hope to do much more in 2019, so we're starting right away! Join us Sunday, Jan. 13th at 2pm at the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in London for Christmas Carols by Candlelight.
Until then, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Always yours, The Ukraine Charity team ideas@ukrainecharity.org |
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12 September 2016
Ukraine Charity contribution to support vulnerable children tops GBP 325,000
Children from Barvinok summer camp on a field trip in Zbarazh
UK-based charity has helped hundreds of orphans and other disadvantaged children in Ukraine thanks to volunteer work, donations
The UK-based Ukraine Charity, which is now in its 10th year, has collected over 325,000 pounds sterling and invested the money into helping vulnerable children in Ukraine.
The charity, staffed entirely by volunteers, focuses on orphaned children, including those affected by the conflict in the East, and on providing life-saving equipment to children’s hospitals across the country.
Two of the latest projects from summer of 2016 included providing a summer holiday to 78 children affected by the conflict; 60 of them in western Ukraine and 18 in the UK, at the Tarasivka camp in Weston-upon-Trent.
Of the 60 children who spent two weeks in the Ternopil region, 10 were orphans and former street children from the “Republic Pilgrim” children’s centre near Mariupol, and 50 lost parents – both civilians and military personnel - in the conflict. The children who spent two weeks in the UK had parents killed or wounded in action.
Among the medical equipment purchases made with Ukraine Charity’s donations are new cardiography monitors for a children’s clinic in Ternopil, replacement cables for a surgery kit at the Romodanov Institute of Neurosurgery in Kyiv, and an autorefractor for children’s vision testing in Odessa
Igor Makar, Trustee, said: “Ukraine Charity is a powerful example of how Ukraine’s new volunteer movement – which stretches far beyond the country’s borders - is touching and changing lives of those most in need, of kids who lost most important people in their lives, and families with children afflicted by illnesses or disabilities.”
Halyna Tatara, also a Trustee, added: “We are always on the lookout for volunteers to help. We don’t have any paid staff so all the money collected goes directly to the projects. We are calling on all those who can invest a little of their personal time into the Charity to get in touch – whether or not they are connected to the Ukrainian community. Our fundraisers run marathons and climb mountains - or simply hold charity bake sales at work or ask friends to donate instead of buying wedding or birthday presents through our donation page on the JustGiving.com platform.”
Among the latest fundraising initiatives were a London concert on 30 August 2016 by the popular Ukrainian a capella band, Pikkardiyska Tertsiya, from which profits were donated towards next year’s summer camp at Tarasivka, and a charity auction at the traditional Ivana Kupala celebration in July which raised almost GBP 4,000.
While the charity’s main focus is on disadvantaged children, in 2014 it ran a special appeal for a Crisis Relief Fund. The appeal raised close to GBP 50,000 and funded urgent medical attention and relief for those injured in the civic protests on Maidan, as well as sterilizer equipment for Hospital N17 in Kyiv.
Ukraine Charity was founded in 2007 by Ukrainian professionals working in London and is supported by volunteers and donors worldwide.
The UK-based Ukraine Charity, which is now in its 10th year, has collected over 325,000 pounds sterling and invested the money into helping vulnerable children in Ukraine.
The charity, staffed entirely by volunteers, focuses on orphaned children, including those affected by the conflict in the East, and on providing life-saving equipment to children’s hospitals across the country.
Two of the latest projects from summer of 2016 included providing a summer holiday to 78 children affected by the conflict; 60 of them in western Ukraine and 18 in the UK, at the Tarasivka camp in Weston-upon-Trent.
Of the 60 children who spent two weeks in the Ternopil region, 10 were orphans and former street children from the “Republic Pilgrim” children’s centre near Mariupol, and 50 lost parents – both civilians and military personnel - in the conflict. The children who spent two weeks in the UK had parents killed or wounded in action.
Among the medical equipment purchases made with Ukraine Charity’s donations are new cardiography monitors for a children’s clinic in Ternopil, replacement cables for a surgery kit at the Romodanov Institute of Neurosurgery in Kyiv, and an autorefractor for children’s vision testing in Odessa
Igor Makar, Trustee, said: “Ukraine Charity is a powerful example of how Ukraine’s new volunteer movement – which stretches far beyond the country’s borders - is touching and changing lives of those most in need, of kids who lost most important people in their lives, and families with children afflicted by illnesses or disabilities.”
Halyna Tatara, also a Trustee, added: “We are always on the lookout for volunteers to help. We don’t have any paid staff so all the money collected goes directly to the projects. We are calling on all those who can invest a little of their personal time into the Charity to get in touch – whether or not they are connected to the Ukrainian community. Our fundraisers run marathons and climb mountains - or simply hold charity bake sales at work or ask friends to donate instead of buying wedding or birthday presents through our donation page on the JustGiving.com platform.”
Among the latest fundraising initiatives were a London concert on 30 August 2016 by the popular Ukrainian a capella band, Pikkardiyska Tertsiya, from which profits were donated towards next year’s summer camp at Tarasivka, and a charity auction at the traditional Ivana Kupala celebration in July which raised almost GBP 4,000.
While the charity’s main focus is on disadvantaged children, in 2014 it ran a special appeal for a Crisis Relief Fund. The appeal raised close to GBP 50,000 and funded urgent medical attention and relief for those injured in the civic protests on Maidan, as well as sterilizer equipment for Hospital N17 in Kyiv.
Ukraine Charity was founded in 2007 by Ukrainian professionals working in London and is supported by volunteers and donors worldwide.
