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Issa Sadi from the Republic of Guinea in West Africa has been living in Ukraine for over 30 years. The man studied in Kyiv. He was a Vice-Consul of the Honorary Consulate of Guinea in Ukraine. Currently, he is the President of “African Council in Ukraine” NGO.

In the first days of russia’s full-scale invasion, the man helped the Africans to evacuate. He also provided the Ukrainian military with warm clothing. Later, he joined the volunteers of “Dobrobat” (Volunteer Building Division). He has already helped to clear debris in Kyiv region on multiple occasions, and also repaired a roof destroyed during the war. The man also plans to involve his family and acquaintances in volunteer work.

• occupation
• reconstruction
• volunteers
• Kyiv

The goal of the volunteer project “Brave to Rebuild” is to help residents of the de-occupied territories of Ukraine to restore housing and social institutions damaged as a result of the russian federation’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine. Since the beginning of May 2022, over 2,000 volunteers from Ukraine, Europe, the U.S., Canada and Australia have been involved in the project. Among other things, volunteers helped to clear debris, repair roofs and windows in 228 detached houses and 153 apartments in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Kherson regions. 

Upcoming events:

February 21-22, 2023 (Kyiv) — setting up “Volunteer Indomitability” hub in the premises of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. This indomitability center will help volunteers and young activists, as well as provide electricity to enable work during power and communication outages. In fact, it will be a public co-working space, arranged by the activists themselves.

February 25-26 (Irpin, Bucha and surrounding villages). Clearing debris, small repairs in detached houses.

• reconstruction
• russian crimes
• volunteers
• Kharkiv
• Kherson
• Kyiv

The project “You, me…war: 100 love stories” was launched by four Ukrainian women in the first months of russia’s full-scale invasion in order to prove that even in the most difficult times there is a place for sincere feelings and hope for the future. The goal of the project is to collect a hundred unusual wartime love stories of different people (from paramedics to volunteers, from policemen to refugees, from rescuers to doctors, from journalists to soldiers).

Important notice: journalists have an opportunity to find out how the idea of such a project came to be, see how it is implemented and, if possible, talk to the heroes of the project — couples with captivating wartime love stories.

• culture
• doctors
• military
• volunteers

Two more mobile shelters will be installed in Kherson as part of the SafePlace4UA project in March. In six months, volunteers have already successfully installed six mobile shelters: 4 in Kherson and 2 in Mykolaiv. They are also looking for opportunities to install such mobile shelters in other cities that the occupiers constantly shell — these are Zaporizhia, Kryvyi Rih, and Nikopol.

• volunteers
• Odesa

On Monday, February 20, a Ukrainian team of beauty industry professionals will visit Horenka in Kyiv Oblast. The beauty volunteers will give free haircuts and coloring, eyebrow correction, massages, or hygienic manicures to the residents.

For reference: the idea of beauty volunteering belongs to Olha Belytska, a makeup artist. Together with like-minded people, Olha comes to the de-occupied settlements of Kyiv Oblast every week (recently, they also worked in the Kharkiv region) to help people who have survived occupation horrors feel beautiful again.

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• occupation
• volunteers
• Kyiv

Three volunteers and athletes from Kharkiv will run a 200-kilometer race from Northern Saltivka (Kharkiv area) to Kramatorsk in Donetsk Oblast on February 27. The race will be broadcast live, and all viewers can donate money to charities and volunteer organizations. Its details will be posted on the event’s website.

• volunteers
• Kharkiv

Olena is a female chaplain who visits Ukrainian defenders in the hottest spots at the frontline. She prays with the military and supplies them with humanitarian aid. And bedsides, Olena had brought to life the chaplain’s initiative to create a mobile dental clinic (where both military and civilians are treated).

• religion
• volunteers
• women

Fuminori Tsuchiko, a 75-year-old Japanese volunteer, spent nine months of the war in the Kharkiv subway, where he helped locals. Now he lives in Kharkiv. Together with his assistants, he will distribute food to all those in need in the coming days. The funds for this food were raised thanks to donations from concerned Japanese.

• volunteers
• Kharkiv

“Ukrainian Women Veteran Movement” NGO is a community of women with military experience in Ukraine. The NGO takes care of about a thousand female veterans and new recruits: from advocating for the rights of female defenders to providing ammunition, basic hygiene products, cars, medical supplies, and drones. The mission of the organization is a professional army, where equal rights are guaranteed to both women and men.

On the first day of the full-scale invasion, a rapid response headquarters was set up on the basis of the movement to cover the needs of the military and civilians. The headquarters has its own workshop, where women’s military uniforms and camouflage cloaks are made. They also have a workshop for weaving camouflage nets, a drone workshop, etc.

• military
• volunteers
• women
• Kyiv

The Ukrainian-Israeli medical volunteer movement FRIDA Ukraine has been helping civilians since the beginning of russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In particular, they provide medical consultations, perform surgeries, evacuate people and distribute medicines. Volunteer doctors (of various specialties) travel to regions (for example, to Kharkiv, Kherson, or Donetsk oblasts), where they help local residents who complain about their health. There are also foreign doctors among the volunteers.

Journalists are invited to join the team of medical volunteers during their future trips to the de-occupied territories.

For reference: FRIDA Ukraine is a non-governmental, non-profit Ukrainian-Israeli charitable mission of volunteer doctors who, since the beginning of the invasion, have been providing emergency and outpatient medical care to the civilian population in the war-affected regions. 

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• volunteers