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At moments like these, we are all Ukrainians. And that means everyone – and especially us at Eurobuild, who have been following and cheering on the positive economic changes in the country, having once even organised a conference in Kyiv for the country’s rapidly evolving investment market. Please help our friends in need by making a donation to one of the organisations below!

We are publishing the list at the initiative of the author Szczepan Twardoch. Before making any payment, please check the correctness and validity of the data.

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Ukrainian charities: a guide for international supporters

The Ukrainian population is primarily countering Russian aggression via donations to charities, some of which support the Ukrainian Army directly, and some of which provide help in other areas of civil society. If you, as a non-Ukrainian, wish to help defend the borders of Europe, your help is always appreciated!

The charities listed below are divided into three categories: those that support field medics and combat medicine, those that support the army with supplies, including weapons, and all-purpose charities/charities for helping the army is one specific area. If you are against supporting any army on principle, please consider donating to the last organisation on the list.

NOTE: Unfortunately, the non-military charities are mostly targeted at people living in Ukraine rather than the diaspora and therefore usually have no international payment details. I will be asking them for international payment details and updating this entry accordingly. The two current exceptions are the last two charities on the list below: EverybodyCan and OpenEyes. So if you want to support only non-military charities – please go to that part of the list.

Update: Adding proxy charities as a category – large-scale UN relief programmes that work with Ukrainian charities.

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Field medics/Combat medicine charities

The Hospitaliers

Website: https://www.facebook.com/hospitallers/

Purpose: volunteer field medics battalion, training, supplies

Open financial records: no, but regular photo updates. Probably the most popular charity for direct help to combat medics; well-known and trustworthy.

Payment details in English: yes

The Volunteer Hundred

Website: https://www.facebook.com/VolonterSotnja/?ref=page_internal

Purpose: rehab of soldiers in hospitals, help to those returning to war

Open financial records: no, but regular individual reports by members on their own pages. Long-standing group, trustworthy.

Payment details in English: none, please write to their Facebook account for current details

Iryna Guk and Oleksiy Sikharulidze

Website: https://www.facebook.com/iryna.guk, https://www.facebook.com/alexey.sikharulidze

Purpose: private individuals providing medical materials; well-known and trustworthy.

Open financial records: no, but regular reports.

Payment details in English: yes – as these are private individuals, services such as TransferWise can be used for private transactions to the following accounts:
Oleksiy Sikharulidze, 5457082237766501 (NOTE: presently blocked due to too many contributions! Which is a good indication that it is working well! XD)

Oleksiy Sikharulidze, 4731185611071785

Army material support

Savelife.in.ua.

Website: https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate/

Purpose: provide the army with necessary materiel, large-scale

Open financial records: yes

Payment details in English: yes

Army SOS

Website: https://armysos.com.ua/en/help-the-army

Purpose: Materiel support, primarily tech (radios, drones, datapads, etc.)

Open financial records: yes, in Ukrainian

Payment details in English: yes

Diana Makarova’s FOND

Website: https://www.facebook.com/fondDM/posts/1615417812050324

Purpose: small-scale army materiel support, covering what is needed right now but is difficult for larger charities to handle. Based in central Ukraine.

Open financial reports: not to the best of my knowledge, but regular updates to activities on Facebook. Have been active since 2014; trustworthy

Payment details in English: yes

Roman Donik’s Volunteer Group

Website: http://groupdonik.com/kak-pomoch.html

Purpose: small-scale materiel support, another long-standing small volunteer group. Based in eastern Ukraine.

Open financial records: not to the best of my knowledge, but regular updates to activities on their websites. Have been active since very early in the war; trustworthy

Payment details in English: yes, partially. One SWIFT account is dollars, the other is in euro.

Charities not linked/partially linked to the war effort

Humanitarian mission “Proliska”

Website: https://www.facebook.com/proliskamission, https://proliska.org/help-mission/

Purpose: evacuation and support of civilians from the war zone, especially people in public institutions, e.g. orphanages, hospitals, housing for internally-displaced refugees

Open financial records: no, but regular reports on Facebook page/website; well-known and trustworthy

Payment details in English: not presently, write for international transfer details

Ukrainian Women’s Guard

Website: https://uavarta.org/vnesok/

Purpose: Preparing women for extreme situations, especially in war situations, training, rehabilitation of veterans, legal aid

Open financial records: not to the best of my knowledge, regular reports on Facebook/webpage. Well-known, trustworthy.

Payment details in English: No, ask for international transfer details

Svoi

Website: https://www.facebook.com/cf.svoyi/?ref=page_internal

Purpose: Covid and other medical aid, esp. buying oxygen and palliative care.

Open financial records: Not to the best of my knowledge, but regular reports on their website and on the page of the organiser, Lesya Litvinova (https://www.facebook.com/LitvinovaLesya). Well-known and trustworthy.

Payment details in English: No, ask Lesya Litvinova for international transfer details

The Kyiv Independent

Website: https://kyivindependent.com/about/

Purpose: Not a charity, but a revival of the Kyiv Post after new owners decided to turn the previous best Ukrainian English-language newsletter into something entirely different. The entire newsroom left and started their own paper, sponsored by readers. The Kyiv Independent is an outstanding source of Urkainian news with high standards of journalism, and supporting them is an excellent way to support the Ukrainian people.

Payment details in English: yes, via Patreon and GoFundMe.

Everybody Can

Website: www.everybodycan.com.ua, https://www.facebook.com/everybody.can.ua

Purpose: medical and social help for disabled children, internally-displaced elderly persons

Open financial records: not that I can presently see, but regular reports on website/Facebook. Well-known, long-standing, trustworthy.

Payment details in English: yes, in the description on the Facebook sidebar (scroll to find)

OpenEyes

Website: https://openeyes.org.ua/en/projects

Purpose: many different projects, including education, health, and so on. OpenEyes also collects financing for military projects, but supporters can choose a particular project and donate exclusively to that project. Many successfully-funded projects.

Open financial records: None that I can see at present – possibly?
Payment details in English: on the website of each project page separately.

Proxy charities

The Ukraine Humanitarian Fund

Website: https://www.unocha.org/ukraine/donor-contributions

Purpose: UN financing instrument – humanitarian assistance to civilians, providing funds for local charities, including Proliska.

Open financial records: yes

Payment details in English: yes, at bottom of page – look for the link for individual donors.

UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency)

Website: https://donate.unhcr.org/int/en/winter-2021-v2

Purpose: Indirect relief for refugees, but funding some Ukrainian charities.

Open financial records: yes

Payment details in English: yes.