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On November 12, Marathon of the Indomitable charity race will start in Hostomel. The purpose of the race is to raise funds for the creation of the “Center for Psychological Assistance and Rehabilitation for Military Personnel” in Kharkiv region. Paratrooper Maksym Pasichnyk will run the half-marathon. He took part in the operation to liberate the Antonov airport and spent 10 days walking more than 100 kilometers to leave the enemy rear together with his comrades. The half-marathon will pass through Bucha and Irpin, and will end at the recently restored bridge in Stoyanka. Anyone who wants to participate will be able to follow the race online. The organizers plan to collect UAH 300,000 during the half-marathon, with these funds they will start the creation of a Center for the rehabilitation of military personnel.

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• volunteers
• Kyiv

Since February 25, Helping to Leave project team managed to help about 133,000 people, who received informational, financial, psychological assistance, or were transported to a safe area. In particular, more than 43,000 people were able to leave the war zone. The operators fully organized the entire evacuation process: from route development to constant online support.

Helping to Leave is a 24-hour hotline to help Ukrainians affected by the russian military invasion and genocide. The goal of the project is to help people get the necessary humanitarian aid, evacuate from the war zone to safe territories. In addition, they hold evacuation both from the Ukrainian territories temporarily occupied by russia and from the territories of the russian federation, where Ukrainians were forcibly deported.

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The Maltese Aid Service has opened a new special project to help people, in particular, in the regions bordering the frontlines and those on the frontline. These are Odesa, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions. As part of the “Winter Relief” program, people receive help with repairing houses damaged by shelling and preparing buildings for the cold season. In particular, about 130 houses have already been restored. It is also planned to deliver 300 power generators to communities in various regions so that residents can charge their phones and stay in touch with relatives. In addition, 2,000 families should receive “winter kits”, which will include a power bank, an LED flashlight, a sleeping bag and a set of products that do not require cooking.

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• reconstruction
• volunteers

For several months in a row, beauty volunteers have been traveling through the de-occupied towns and villages of Kyiv region: manicurists, hairdressers, make-up artists and massage therapists work with local residents for free. In particular, they visited Bucha, Dymer, Katyuzhanka and many other places. The idea of ​​beauty volunteering for de-occupied villages belongs to make-up artist Olha Belytska. In the spring, she and her colleagues did beauty treatments for the patients of Okhmatdyt in Kyiv and saw that some women, having barely recovered from shell and cluster bomb attacks, complained that they were staying there with their hair uncombed and with no makeup. So, together with like-minded people, Olha comes to the de-occupied settlements of Kyiv region every week to help people who survived the horrors of occupation to feel beautiful again.

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• occupation
• volunteers
• Kyiv

“Time of Stories” project tells the stories of Ukrainians, each of whom is fighting on their own front. Among them are celebrities who took up arms, as well as brave volunteers who reach the most inaccessible places and deliver help. The next meeting of the project will take place in Lviv on December 15 and will be called “Warriors of Light — 2″. The organizers will tell more about the event on November 9 at 1:00 PM at Media Center Ukraine.

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• military
• volunteers
• Lviv

Volunteers of Dia-Dzen patients’ organization deliver diabetes medicines to the occupied territories. Yuliya Kuklina, Co-Founder of Dia-Dzen says that these trips often take several weeks. In particular, the organization managed to deliver a box of insulin to the temporarily occupied Berdyansk in Zaporizhia. There, the volunteer of the team had to simply distribute the medicine on the street, because there was no normal mobile communication in the city. Volunteers of the organization also go to the de-occupied territories, in particular, to Kharkiv region, because insulin-dependent people will need the drug and can live without it for only a few weeks.

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Leading Ukrainian charity foundations — “Come Back Alive”, Charity Foundation of Serhiy Prytula, and Bon Charity Foundation — will sell war trophies by online auctions in Prozorro.Sale state electronic trading system. A regular radio station from the Charity Foundation “Come Back Alive”, which was removed from the destroyed IFV of the enemy in Mykolaiv region, a fragment of the russian TOR air defense system from the Bon Foundation, which was shot down by the Ukrainian military in the south, and a military chemical intelligence device from the Prytula’s Foundation, brought by volunteers from near Vyshgorod, from where russians planned to capture Kyiv “in 2–3 days” were put up for charity auctions the first. In general, such auctions will be held in the Prozorro.Sale system during November. Everyone will be able to compete for lots, and money from the sale of trophies will go to the accounts of foundations to buy aid to the Ukrainian military. Generally, Prozorro.Sale launched charity auctions back in March 2022. UAH 6.8 million was raised to help the army and for humanitarian needs.

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Mykolaiv has already installed 4 concrete shelters for city residents. There they will be able to hide during air-raid warnings. Shelters are reinforced, properly certified and can protect against debris or a blast wave. Each of them is designed for 15 seats for short-term stays.

In addition, Vitaly Gidevan and Elena Noina, the known Kyiv artists, painted the walls of shelters to make them look more attractive.

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• Mykolaiv

Andriy Danylko (the artist also goes by the nickname Verka Serduchka) decided to sell the Silver Shadow Rolls-Royce of the year 1974 by the Sotheby’s auction. It was the car that Freddie Mercury drove until the last days of his life. Danylko will donate all the proceeds to construction of a rehabilitation center in Ukraine. The auction will be held on November 5 in London. Earlier, the artist had bought this legendary car to present it to the Queen Museum or make it a part of a large exhibition in Ukraine, but now he decided to invest in the country’s future.

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• Kyiv

The host of the morning radio show helps pensioners in the Kyiv region. In particular, in localities affected by russian occupation. For this purpose, the girl founded the Charitable Foundation “Yulia’s Grannies”. One of the main activities of the Foundation is guardianship of the elderly and single people. Now the fund has five employees who regularly go to nursing homes in the Kyiv region, bring aid and just communicate with grannies and grandpas.

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• Kyiv