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A field kitchen in the shape of a tipi (Native American tent) was put up in Sokilnyky, Lviv Oblast. There, the refugees are treated to vegan dinners. The menu may include, for example, roasted soybeans and wood-fired borscht. No electricity or gas is used for cooking. Within a day, volunteers make several hundred portions of food.

The field kitchen was put up with the help of the American organization “Altruist Relief Kitchen” from Alaska. Tipis may be installed in other cities of Ukraine in the near future.

• food
• volunteers
• Lviv

Since the beginning of the all-out war, volunteers of “Save Ukraine” charitable foundation have returned more than forty children who were deported to the russian federation and occupied Crimea. They even had to organize rescue operations to save the children. The volunteers are also evacuating children from the war zone.

For reference: according to Children of War, a state platform for searching children, as of March 20, more than 16,000 Ukrainian children were deported by the occupiers.

• children
• russian crimes
• volunteers
• Kyiv

ARTREHUB is a volunteer-based initiative that provides psychological rehabilitation to veterans. Art rehabilitation therapy sessions are held once a week at the military rehabilitation center near Kyiv. The ARTREHUB’s team has been working with veterans since 2017.

• military
• psychological support
• volunteers
• Kyiv

Volunteers of “Dobrobat” will clear the rubble of buildings destroyed as a result of the war in Irpin, Kyiv region. The work will start in the morning of March 18. Those who want to join the volunteer effort are currently being recruited.

For reference: “Dobrobat” is a volunteer building division that helps victims by promptly rebuilding housing and social infrastructure facilities in the de-occupied territories.

• occupation
• reconstruction
• russian crimes
• volunteers
• Kyiv

Five volunteers from Odesa, including welders, mechanics and electricians, assembled a military buggy. They developed the vehicle themselves, and even took some spare parts from a soviet car. They managed to assemble the buggy by themselves within one month. In the near future, defenders who shoot down enemy drones will be able to use it. And very soon volunteers will make another vehicle.

In addition, volunteers are making portable bathing facilities for the military, which will be also equipped with washing machines. There will even be a place to set up a barbershop in these facilities so that the military can shave and get a haircut.

Also, Odesa volunteers began making a mobile Invincibility Center out of a large bus.

• military
• volunteers
• Odesa

On Thursday and Sunday (March 16, 19), volunteers of the “Brave to Rebuild” project will repair used bicycles delivered from Amsterdam. Repaired bicycles will be handed over to people in de-occupied settlements of Kharkiv region.

Usually, volunteers repair such bicycles in one of the capital’s bicycle shops. A bicycle shop owner tells the volunteers how to fix bicycles and also joins in the work.

• volunteers
• Kyiv

Vasyl is originally from Romania but has lived in the UK for the past seven years. Now the man is actively volunteering in Ukraine. In particular, he helps to dismantle the rubble of buildings destroyed by the war, build walls and repair roofs. Recently, he also joined the digging of a ditch to lay a pipe and deliver water to the house. He also repairs bicycles, which are then distributed to citizens in the affected regions of the country.

• reconstruction
• volunteers
• Kyiv

Since the beginning of the full-scale war, the Ukrainian-Israeli medical volunteer movement FRIDA Ukraine has been going on charitable rescue missions and helping civilians. Currently, doctors are actively working in Kharkiv, Kherson and Donetsk oblasts. Journalists are invited to join the team of medical volunteers during future trips to the de-occupied territories.

For reference: Volunteer doctors (of various specialties) make trips and help local residents who complain about their health. They provide consultations, perform surgeries, evacuate people and distribute medicine.

• casualties
• doctors
• volunteers

Teachers in Zaporizhia hold sports and entertainment activities for refugee children every week. Entertainment activities and performances are held in a theater. Parents and children who moved away from the occupied territories of Zaporizhia and Kherson regions come here every Sunday.

Due to the lack of high-quality equipment and the fact that the premises are unsuitable for sports games, creative teachers invent games for children with objects made of available materials: paper, balloons, etc.

• casualties
• children
• volunteers
• Zaporizhzhia

Tetiana Brovarets is a folklorist, candidate of philological sciences and an employee of the Institute for Art Studies, Folklore and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

On February 23, 2022, the woman went on a business trip from Kherson to the capital, where she found herself when russia’s full-scale invasion began. Later, she decided to join “Dobrobat” volunteer movement. For nine months, Tetiana has been volunteering to help clear the rubble of buildings destroyed by the war and even install window slopes. Her mother also joined the volunteer work. 

• reconstruction
• volunteers
• women
• Kyiv