Support Ukraine's Most Vulnerable

Minister of Social Policy Maryna Lazebna “Rebuilding Ukraine and providing the remaining communities across our country with the security that we are and will rebuild the services so they are entitled to. Having the continued support from external partners like First-Hands Ukraine and other globally is crucial in this endeavour and a strong message that we will not give-up”

Mayor of Bucha, Anatolii Fedoruk “The First-Hands Ukraine initiative has our gratitude for taking into account the requirements of the de-occupied territories where numerous internally displaced children and elderly people reside in the Bucha community. Given that we focus primarily on directing our resources to the frontlines, it is essential that aid persists so that we can restore access to fundamental amenities for our susceptible and juvenile communities".

Mayor of Talne, Vasyl Sidko,: "There are 4442 registered IDPs in the Talniv community. Of these, 1037 live in rural areas with complicated logistics for providing timely emergency assistance. Thanks to the First Hands initiative, we will be able to provide people who have already suffered from the war and lost their homes with constant access to timely medical care and humanitarian aid."

Mayor of Pokrovsk, Svitlana Spazheva: "In times of war, we have to provide daily access to education for our children, bring humanitarian aid for IDPs and the elderly who cannot manage their everyday needs for food and medicine on their own. We need to be able to help teams restore electricity and medical teams reach patients or deliver the wounded in time. We will be able to meet these needs with the help of the First Hands initiative and the vehicles we need."

Mayor of Lyubashchiv, Gennadiy Pavlov: "In times of war, the issue of transportation for the community is extremely important, because situations are unpredictable every day: delivery of humanitarian aid, transportation of children with special needs to educational and medical institutions, or the departure of rapid response specialists to provide the community with electricity, or, unfortunately, to rescue from shelling and deliver the wounded. We do not have enough vehicles for all of this. The First-Hands initiative is our opportunity to help people during the war.”

Mayor of Palanska, Ruslan Yaremchuk: "Our community is working on creating a rehabilitation center for Ukrainians who need help overcoming post-traumatic problems. This is the minimum we can do for people affected by the war. Unfortunately, it is often impossible to transport them on their own. With the help of the First-Hands initiative, our community will provide transportation for patients to the center and for specialists to the communities where they live to provide timely medical care”

Deputy Head of Savranska, Yevhen Naselenko: "More than 3,000 IDPs from the most dangerous regions have come to our community because of the fighting. Most of these people do not have their own transportation and no way to get to healthcare or other social institutions. With the help of the First-Hands initiative, we will be able to provide the community with decent living conditions."