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Ukraine still needs our help as they fight against Russian advances. Below is a list of charities and actions that need your support.

Every minute and every dollar helps. 

Charities

  • Save Life: This NGO crowdfunds non-lethal military equipment, such as thermal vision scopes and supplies it to the Donbas front lines. It also provides training for Ukrainian soldiers, as well as researching troops’ needs and the social reintegration of veterans.
  • Hospitallers: This is a medical battalion that unites volunteer paramedics and doctors to save the lives of soldiers on the frontline. They crowdfund their vehicle repairs, fuel, and medical equipment.
  • Tabletochki: This foundation has been supporting children with cancer for 10 years. They procure medicines and equipment, and arrange overseas treatment, among other things.
  • Happy Old: This charity provides older people across Ukraine with groceries and medicine. They hold educational, entertainment, and sports events, as well as help with employment. They even created a modeling agency for the elderly.
  • Let’s Help: This charity cares for older people living alone and helps state retirement homes. They also advocate for better treatment of older people by the state, including providing people aged 60+ with easy access to education.
  • Starenki: It’s a charitable initiative devoted to issues of old age in Ukraine. They help lonely seniors by providing them with groceries and hygiene products.
  • Blood Agents: An NGO that promotes regular, conscious, and gratuitous blood donations. They have encouraged people to donate blood over 5,000 times over the past six years.
  • Donor UA: It is an automated system for recruiting and managing blood donors, designed to promote the donor movement in Ukraine. You can help by signing up and donating blood or by supporting the project with a monetary donation.
  • Sirius: Is the largest shelter for stray animals in Ukraine established in 2000. Its capacity is over 3,000 animals. The institution crowdfunds for animal feed, veterinary drugs, construction and repair of enclosures, and other needs.
  • Happy Paw: This is a charity dedicated to solving the problems of homeless animals in Ukraine. The charity helps owners find lost animals, sterilizes domestic animals of people in need & holds lectures on humane treatment of homeless animals for schoolchildren.
  • UAnimals: This is a movement for protecting animals from exploitation and abuse. The organization managed to help institute a ban on animal circuses.

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