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🇺🇦 The rebuilding of the country begins with the recovery of people’s lives
Ukraine
Joined September 2022
#OlenaZelenskaFoundation has been officially launched! The Foundation's primary goal is to restore Ukraine's human capital so that every Ukrainian feels physically and mentally healthy, protected, and able to exercise their right to education, work, and build a future in🇺🇦
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We are pleased to announce that Microsoft is now a partner of the Foundation created to rebuild 🇺🇦. The meeting of @ZelenskaUA with President Mr. Brad Smith on the sidelines of the Web Summit was extremely warm and fruitful.
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At the Presentation in London, we launched fundraising for the reconstruction of the largest hospital in the deoccupied Kharkiv region. Our mission is to bring to the people who endured the occupation an understanding that Ukraine and the whole world support them.
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We delivered 200 generators (2.5 - 3 kW) and 2,300 electric heaters to the Kherson region. These are directed to the bomb shelters and points of invincibility as well as to the people in the territorial communities. Any help - if we want it to be effective - must be systematic.
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Today, the First Lady met with representatives of the @EIB which provided monetary assistance in the amount of €800,000. These funds were transferred to the Olena Zelenska Foundation. [1/4]
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We join the Cabinet on Wheels project by Vidchui NGO and purchase 500 hearing aids worth UAH 6,160,000 for residents of the de-occupied territories of Kyiv and Chernihiv regions.
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@BHL a French philosopher and director, made two films about Ukrainian bravery. He has directed his royalties from these films to be given to the Olena Zelenska Foundation. This amount will go toward the reconstruction of the Izium Central City Hospital. [1/4]
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We want to thank @LeoDiCaprio for his recent contribution to the Foundation in supporting the people of Ukraine. His contribution is helping to support the young people whose lives have been torn apart by war. [1/4]
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We are very grateful for @OpenSociety willingness to cooperate. Signed the Memorandum of partnership. The charitable contribution of $1 million will help to expand the Foundation's projects to support children growing up in large foster families
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The Russian troops want to deprive our children of their childhood. But we won’t let this happen. We are thankful to our numerous partners who join us in helping children. [1/3].
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Yesterday we visited family-style orphanages in Kyiv region. We handed over items that would help the families to prepare for cold weather - heaters, firewood, and warm blankets. Theу also received food, sanitary products. We purchased furniture and mattresses for some families.
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The @EU_Commission allocates €100 million for the reconstruction of Ukrainian schools 🇺🇦. [1/4]
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Liechtenstein pledged CHF 250 000 to projects supporting people in Ukraine through Olena Zelenska Foundation. [1/3]
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Recently, the Foundation got a donation that broke our hearts. This was made by the Ukrainian children currently in Germany and intended for their peers undergoing treatment at Ohmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv, which @ZelenskaUA visited yesterday. [1/5]
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Estonia has joined the project to build housing for those families who lost their homes due to the war. The Government of Estonia and the Foundation agreed to build two more houses for large foster families
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Children are our future. And no one should take away their holidays and miracle feelings. We are glad that we, together with the Pikalov Fond, as part of the "Iron St. Mykolay'' project, could give at least a part of warmth and support to children. [1/2]
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The First Lady Olena Zelenska @ZelenskaUA and the Foundation’s team had a meeting with the Open Society Foundations @OpenSociety. In particular, with the head of the organization, @AlexanderSoros, who has come to Kyiv for the second time in the last month, and his team
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Today, Ukraine is grieving. That is another day of loss and hurt inflicted by Russian aggression. The Ministry of Internal Affairs leadership and civilians, including children, died. The Foundation is mourning with all families who lost their nearest and dearest. [1/8]
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🇰🇷🇺🇦 New international partners are always welcome, because the restoration of Ukraine begins with the most urgent needs of the people. We hope for cooperation with the Community Chest of Korea and implementation of joint projects
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When organizations summarize the year, they report on numbers alone. For the Foundation, the primary result is not the tons of humanitarian aid or the number of international partnerships. It is all about people. [1/8]
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Humanitarian aid was sent to Kherson region. This week five communities of the deoccupied territories will receive generators, sleeping bags, heaters, and electric blankets.
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🇺🇦 Values of the Foundation. Formalized. Verified and important. This is the foundation on which we build our operation. 🇺🇦 Цінності Фундації. Формалізовані. Виверені та важливі. Той фундамент, на якому ми будуємо нашу роботу.
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🤝 The Olena Zelenska Foundation is grateful to Ukraine’s diplomatic representatives for help to raise funds from foreign patrons for humanitarian aid, education and healthcare in Ukraine
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The Yaroslavtsev foster parents rescued 11 children from the occupied part of Zaporizhia, 10 of whom are adopted
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We will continue fundraising to purchase resuscitation ambulances within the operation of the Foundation. Our doctors and patients need them. Equipped with oxygen cylinders, cardiac monitors, defibrillators, ECG machines and ventilators, such ambulances save hundreds of lives.
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To help residents of Velyka Oleksandrivka, Novooleksandrivska, Kochubeivka, Novovorontsovka and Vysokopillya communities in Kherson region prepare for the cold weather, we provided them with 2,200 sleeping bags, 400 heaters and 800 heated blankets.
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We are preparing for winter together with the nation: purchasing bedding sets, electric underblankets, and heaters. We will provide them to forcibly displaced people and orphanages in Kyiv region soon.
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Today we presented the Foundation and held around 20 working meetings with potential partners at the 5th 🇩🇪-🇺🇦 Business Forum: Rebuild Ukraine. We take every opportunity to remind the world: we need your help and support to restore lives of people in 🇺🇦.
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Pillows, blankets, mattresses, and bedding sets were provided to arrange 150 sleeping places for internally displaced persons in Sumy region. We also gathered humanitarian aid for the Odesa region family-style orphanage to be delivered this week.
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Our task is to provide people in the de-occupied Kharkiv region with what they need - heating and lighting. To date, we have handed over sleeping bags, potbelly stoves, heaters, electric blankets, batteries. With the support of @tika_english1, we also transported 100 generators.
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In February, the team of the Olena Zelenska Foundation went on a work trip to Australia. Despite the fact that Ukraine and Australia are separated by hundreds of kilometers, we felt and saw how close we are: we share common values. [1/6]
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We visited almost 100 children living in 10 family-type orphanages in the Odesa region. We delivered laptops and other gadgets, home appliances, hygiene products, bed linen, dishes and water tanks, as well as heaters, warm blankets, and sleeping bags to keep them warm in winter.
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Despite the war, Tamara Umanska, a teacher with 30 years of experience, continues to teach. Power outages, bombings, and air sirens couldn’t stop her and her students. There are many resilient teachers like her in Ukraine. [1/8]
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Charitable contribution of $500,000 to our Foundation. @ZelenskaUA agreed on this during a conversation with the Temerty family. The raised funds will be used for humanitarian aid to the residents of the de-occupied territories of the Kharkiv region.
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We were honoured to meet with @RESCUE_UK and the largest charitable foundations in the UK: @ButtleUK, @savechildrenuk, @WorldVisionUK. We have discussed the biggest problems in 🇺🇦 and are moving on to agree on projects for the well-being and education of children in 🇺🇦.
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Today, the Olena Zelenska Foundation presents its first quarter report. This is the point to mark gratitude to our partners, transparency in our actions, and dedication to our mission. [1/3].
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Before the full-scale war, Ukraine set a course on replacing "Soviet-type" orphanages and state boarding schools with foster families or family-type orphanages (FTOs). We have to ensure the right of every orphan to be brought up in a family. [1/4].
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For the Foundation, supporting children – particularly children from family-type orphanages – with all they need for their education and healthy and safe lives is a priority. @ZelenskaUA . #OlenaZelenska #OlenaZelenskaFoundation #Zelenska
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Humanitarian aid was provided to another four family-style orphanages in Kyiv region. Heaters, mattresses, bed linens, warm blankets, food products, and hygiene items were handed over.
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Thank you, Leo, for joining the Foundation! Only together can we change lives. [4/4].
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Through the @UKRinKorea the Foundation received 500 laptops. For us, this support means 500 children with the tools for education. [1/4]
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Another shelter equipped and arranged by @Zelenska_FND 🏫. Thanks to international funds, we financed the renovation of the basement at Nizhyn gymnasium (Chernihiv region), transforming it into a comfortable, barrier-free shelter. Watch more from the students of the gymnasium.
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With international partners` support, we help people in Ukraine prepare for this brutal winter. This week, we already delivered a batch of humanitarian aid consisting of sleeping bags, generators, stoves, batteries, and so forth to the deoccupied Kharkiv region.
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We were glad to meet like-minded people and grateful to the artists who donated their works of art for the reconstruction. Only by joint efforts will we be able to help everyone who needs help.
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The Kharkiv region doctors are worthy of making movies about their dedication. Someday, these stories will be told through the cinemas’ screens. Today, the global film industry is united to impact the conditions the doctors are forced to work in due to the Russian “peace”. [1/7]
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Together with @gbceducation, Ukraine House Foundation, @HP and @Microsoft we will provide 38,856 laptops for 🇺🇦 teachers. We will distribute 💻 in such a way that they are provided primarily to the regions with the biggest share of distance learning.
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We are grateful to the Temerty Family Foundation. Thanks to this, we were able to provide household appliances and purchased generators for critical infrastructure facilities for hundreds to hundreds of families who lost their homes in Kharkiv region.
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Collecting donations to purchase C-type ambulances was launched in advance of the second Kyiv Summit of First Ladies and Gentlemen on @ZelenskaUA initiative. More than $6.4 million was raised in a month. 82 resuscitation ambulances were procured with a portion of these funds.
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It's not just about money. It’s about laptops, blankets, generators, washing machines, and accumulators, which will make the lives of dozens of little Ukrainians a bit more comfortable in these difficult times. [3/3].
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The war takes the most vital things and turns life into survival. It is especially felt in the territories neighboring the hot spots, where people do not always have access to drinking water. [1/5]
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We thank @SwissUA for the opportunity to help foster families in the Sumy region. With our joint efforts, we improved the living conditions of 8 families raising 53 children
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Today, children from the family-type orphanages we support visited fairy-tale performances, the residence of St. Mykolay, received gifts from the project partners – @EpiCentrK and UA Food Bank – and, most importantly, had a carefree time on the eve of the winter holidays. [2/2]
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[1/7] Renovation. New major repairs and modern medical equipment. A new park for patients is in development for spring 2022. Such was the Central City Hospital in Izium, the largest hospital in the Kharkiv region, serving 140,000 people.
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The sixth session of vacation organized by the Olena Zelenska Foundation for large foster families is currently taking place in the Carpathians. From June to August 1357 children and their parents from 218 foster families enjoyed their time at the camp
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💙💛 With the support of the Olena Zelenska Foundation and Gen.Ukrainian, a new shift of the rehabilitation camp started in April. Children who have suffered psychological trauma participate in rehabilitation. They survived the occupation or witnessed the killings
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First Lady @ZelenskaUA met with Partners of the @Zelenska_FND at #URC2024. The UAE actively supports the Foundation's projects. During a meeting with Reem AI Hashemi, thanked for help in building 10 houses for large foster families as part of our “Room of Childhood” project.
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"When we got pocket-money as our Christmas gift, we decided to donate them as a contribution to your aid initiatives for those who need it! We sent the amount to your Foundation's account", – was written by a child's handwriting in a letter, which we got right after the donation.
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The Foundation supports all family-type orphanages in Ukraine where kids grow up in a genuine family atmosphere and coordinates its efforts with the government so that no kids know of orphanhood. [2/4].
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💙💛 The first to go to the Carpathians will be 240 children with their parents-caregivers from 39 foster families of the Kharkiv Region. The first shift will start on June 2 #Zelenska #OlenaZelenskaFoundation
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🌳 Сhildren from more that 150 foster families will rest and recover in the Artek-Bukovel camp during six shifts #Zelenska #OlenaZelenskaFoundation
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"Slava Ukraïni!" is the second film about Ukrainian courage by @BHL communicating a call to the world to fight against any fatigue or wave of defeatism. The film is a reminder that Ukraine is fighting for common freedom. [4/4].
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🇨🇦🇺🇦 1 million USD to support Ukraine and Ukrainians. This is the second charitable contribution from the Temerty Foundation (Canada) to support the projects of the Foundation established by @ZelenskaUA. We thank our Canadian friends for their trust
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The First Lady of Ukraine @ZelenskaUA and the Foundation's team met with a delegation of members of the National Assembly of France, members of the Ukraine-France interparliamentary friendship group. Told about the projects of the Foundation
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Foundation will build a new home for the wonderful Vatashchuk family from Kharkiv region to support their dream of establishing a large foster family and saving more Ukrainian children from an orphan’s fate. Grateful to the UAE President @MohamedBinZayed, @mariammalmheiri and 🇦🇪
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🏡 The Olena Zelenska Foundation provided 27 foster families from the Chernihiv region with the assistance needed for decent living
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Cold temperatures are coming. In regions where most of the buildings are destroyed with no electricity supplies, for the people it will be a significant concern how to survive the winter. We need to offer them support.
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The Foundation started this February with humanitarian aid for 247 kids from family-type orphanages. The 34 families from the Kyiv region got everything they needed to provide a fuller childhood. [1/3]
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The Russian army is constantly shelling the Sumy region. But we are doing our best to provide children with a happy childhood and create conditions for their upbringing. The Olena Zelenska Foundation continues to care for those in need 💙💛
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We help children to have the fullest childhood without barriers to education, medicine, and welfare. [3/4].
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💔 We keep in touch with the people we help. The Foundation's team visited the Chuhuiv hospital. We have heard horrifying stories about doctors who continue to provide care during shelling and bombing
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Foundation is allocating first $500,000 USD for the arrangement of bomb shelters. This will allow thousands of children to study and socialize safely. The Foundation's partner in this project is the Charitable Organization of Kyiv School of Economics
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Teachers from the Luhansk, Chernihiv, Kyiv and Kherson regions have already received laptops. Transfer of the gadgets to other regions will follow.
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"I cannot remain indifferent at a time when 🇺🇦 needs immediate help. In France, we need to help in whatever way we can," Michel Hazanavicius, the Oscar winner, donated 125 thousand euros raised at the charity auction for which actors and artists provided artifacts.
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Kherson is now in the center of both disaster and rescue of people. We must all join efforts to prevent the consequences of the destruction of the Kahovka HPP by the aggressor.
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The Foundation supports foster families who have lost everything except each other
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💻 We thank @Microsoft and @HP for more that 5,000 laptops for teachers in the Zaporizhzhia region. Now it will be more effective to teach children in war. Teachers of more than 300 schools in the region will be able to improve the educational process
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The Foundation team met with Margaritis Schinas, Vice President of @EU_Commission for Promoting European Way of Life. With First Lady Olena Zelenska @ZelenskaUA discussed the areas of work, particularly restoring access to education for Ukrainian children
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🇺🇸🇺🇦 Salt Lake City in the USA has become another city where the Foundation has found true partners. Here, in the capital of Utah, @ZelenskaUA met with representatives of local business and philanthropists
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It is all about people with incredible bravery, courage, and unity. Our whole nation showed the world what it means to be Ukrainian. This is how it was in 2022 and will remain till the very victory and afterward. [8/8].
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Supporting children in Ukraine is a priority for the Foundation. In particular, we keep working to provide kids in family-type children’s orphanages with everything they need for their every-day security and continued education.
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Yesterday, at the opening of the @WebSummit, the founder of the Foundation, @olenazelenska, called on the most powerful tech companies in the world to help Ukrainians through the Foundation.
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[7/7] We must convey to the people who survived the occupation and hell of this war the understanding that not only the Ukrainian people are with them but also that the entire world supports them in the darkest time.
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@ZelenskaUA thanked for the aid given to Ukraine. The Foundation actively negotiates and builds personal contact with every partner who wants to give aid. As a sign of trust in the Foundation, partners give immediate support where it’s needed. [3/3].
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🫶 Foster families have the opportunity to spend time together in the Ukrainian Carpathians #OlenaZelenska #Zelenska #OlenaZelenskaFoundation
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“I am grateful for your help in saving lives,” @ZelenskaUA thanked “France 🇫🇷, which has been with us since the first day of the invasion.”.
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The @Zelenska_FND team delivered 2,000 laptops and tablets to the Odesa region. The Foundation’s partners from Serbia helped to provide in total 5,000 devices for children. In particular, we are grateful to the First Lady of Serbia, the government and a telecoms company 🇷🇸📷🇺🇦
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Family is the best option for life and raising a child #Zelenska #OlenaZelenska #OlenaZelenskaFoundation
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Estonia is one of those who supported the Foundation's Room for Childhood project. In the Zhytomyr region, the Foundation, in collaboration with @EstDevEstonia, is building a new home for a large foster family. Estonia is scaling our project 🤝
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Residents of Kherson, Mykolaiv, Dnipro, and Zaporizhzhia regions will have an additional source of drinking water in case of emergencies. Our Foundation has provided the units of the National Police 20 PAUL water purification systems thanks to to the German corporation WILO SE
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First Lady Olena Zelenska along with the team of the Foundation held an online meeting with Hanna Novikova, a computer science teacher for the 5th grade and an instructor of the STEM course at a school in Kryvyi Rih. Hanna has received a laptop from the Foundation and partners
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@ZelenskyyUa and @ZelenskaUA helped the children, celebrated events together and pleased them with gifts. As the aggression of the invaders swelled, the kids were evacuated to Germany. [4/5].
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💪 Foundation’s Team felt incredible admiration, seeing how much the doctors from Chuhuiv Hospital achieved after the liberation of Kharkiv region. They single-handedly rebuilt the basement into hospital wards, an operating room, and a delivery room
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We were incredibly happy to see how one of the hundreds of powerful generators we handed over feeds the local Chuhuiv hospital. It is almost a power plant. It can provide a medical facility for 250,000 patients with autonomous energy supply
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We sincerely thank the @SwissUA which donated UAH 1.2 million to the Foundation to help family-type orphanages. [2/3].
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In just a week, Ukraine enters its second consecutive winter of war. The Foundation has been continuously providing heating devices to Ukrainians: solid fuel boilers, electric heaters, generators. In November, the we donated 600 GALP infrared heaters from Portugal to four regions
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Nearly 800 laptops were given to children from the Mykolaiv region, including from previously occupied Snihurivka and Ochakiv, which is constantly under fire. We also delivered almost 1600 laptops to children from Dnipropetrovsk region
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Thanks to the generosity of our foreign partners from @EIB, we are able to support Ukrainian families
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