The following is to directly help the city of Sumy:
Save Sumy - donations to Sumy, Ukraine due to Russian invasion
www.fond.sumy.ua
Found this on the r/Ukraine thread and thought it would be useful sharing it here as well. These are a list of links that people can donate to ranging from helping the war efforts, blood donations to promoting independent investigative journalism. All credit for compiling this list goes to r/Ukraine and Kyiv Independent who you can support on their Patreon here.
Charities that help the war effort
- Save Life: This NGO crowdfunds non-lethal military equipment, such as thermal vision scopes & supplies it to the Donbas front lines. It also provides training for Ukrainian soldiers, as well as researching troops' needs and social reintegration of veterans.
- Donbas SOS: This organization helps those who live in the Donbas war zone, those who relocated to other parts of Ukraine, and freed prisoners of war. It offers legal support, accommodation assistance, and psychological aid among other things.
- Crimea SOS: This organization has been helping internally displaced people from Crimea since Russia occupied the peninsula in 2014. It documents Russian authorities' repressions against Crimeans and advocates for the end of the occupation.
- 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, equipment, and arrange overseas treatment, among other things.
- ChildrenWeWillMakeIt: This movement grew out of a campaign that raised $2 million to get the world's most expensive medicine for a Ukrainian boy with spinal muscular atrophy. It now fundraises for the treatment of other Ukrainian children with SMA.
- Ruka ob Ruku: This is a running club for children with disabilities. The initiative gives children an opportunity to train and take part in races together with their parents and volunteers.
- Happy Old: This charity provides older people across Ukraine with groceries and medicine, holds educational, entertainment, and sports events, as well as helps 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.
- Women Perspectives: This organization has been helping women who have faced domestic violence, discrimination in the labor market, and other issues. The NGO works with local and state authorities to promote pro-equality gender policies in Ukraine.
- Marsh Zhinok (Women's March): Every year, on March 8, this initiative holds a rally promoting gender equality and the protection of women from gender-based violence. Currently, the organization is petitioning for Ukraine to adopt the Istanbul Convention.
- Blood Agents: It is 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 money 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: 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: Is a movement for protecting animals from exploitation & abuse. The organization managed to achieve a ban on animal circuses & persuaded many designers participating in Ukrainian Fashion Week to abandon natural fur.
- Ukraine Without Waste: It is a Ukrainian non-profit promoting the practice of sorting household waste. They educate companies on how to go green at their offices, and hold lectures for the wider public.
- Laska: It's a chain of two charity stores in Kyiv that promote conscious shopping. They accept donated clothes, resell 15% of them, and send the rest to orphanages, homes for the elderly and centers for people with disabilities.
- Help the homeless: This initiative supports homeless people & the elderly in need, by providing them with free meals, medicine, hygiene products, clothes & shoes. Launched by a group of volunteers in 2016, the organization has been relying on crowdfunding.
- Suka Zhizn: This organization grew big from a 2017 Instagram account launched to tell stories of homeless people. Now volunteers provide various support to the homeless: employment, sorting out documents, searching for relatives & legal counseling.
- Slidstvo: Is an independent agency launched in 2012 that produces award-winning documentaries exposing corruption. They have investigated mismanagement of prisons, fraud, money laundering at PrivatBank & the assassination of journalist Sheremet.
- UKRPravda News: Founded in 2000 by Gongadze, a prominent journalist who was killed the same year, this publication is among the most influential in Ukraine. The reporters break political scoops and unmask officials who abuse their power.
- Zaborona Media: This is an independent media outlet founded by journalists. They investigate topics such as violations of Ukrainian workers' rights in the Middle East, arms trafficking, and corruption in the construction sector.
- Parkhomivka Museum: The museum, located in a small village in eastern Kharkiv Oblast, is an 18th-century villa that offers a permanent collection of exhibits by artists as iconic as Picasso, Malevich & Manet. You can support it by coming & buying a ticket.
- Save Kyiv Modernism: Is a movement that unites architects, designers and activists who advocate for the protection of the remarkable Soviet modernist structures across Ukraine.
- FrankivskToCareAbout: Is a movement for the preservation of architectural heritage in the western city of Ivano-Frankivsk. Founded in 2016, the initiative renovates old wooden doors of the city's ancient buildings.
- Svoyi: Svoyi gives free oxygen concentrators to people who contracted COVID & can't be hospitalized due to personal circumstances or when hospitals are overflowing. It also helps those discharged too early in favour of patients in more serious conditions.
- Monsters, Inc.: This organization is based in Odesa and provides emergency medical aid to people living in the region. They also help COVID hospitals, procuring medicines and equipment.
Thanks to Ridcully for compiling the following list of other Relief Effort Sources
1) Help Ukraine Win made a nice collection of resources and information on how you can help Ukrainians in these difficult times (some of them are already posted here)
2) Help to relieve the humanitarian needs of Sumy, a besieged city in the northeast of Ukraine where I currently live.
Donate in US dollars
Company name
ГРОМАДСЬКИЙ ФОНД СУМИ (SUMY PUBLIC FUND)
IBAN Code
UA843375460000026004055014382
Name of the bank
JSC CB "PRIVATBANK", 1D HRUSHEVSKOHO STR., KYIV, 01001, UKRAINE
SWIFT code of the bank / Bank SWIFT Code
PBANUA2X
Donate in Euros
Company name
ГРОМАДСЬКИЙ ФОНД СУМИ (SUMY PUBLIC FUND)
IBAN Code
UA073375460000026005055015540
Name of the bank
JSC CB "PRIVATBANK", 1D HRUSHEVSKOHO STR., KYIV, 01001, UKRAINE
SWIFT code of the bank / Bank SWIFT Code
PBANUA2X
Donate in British pounds
Company name
ГРОМАДСЬКИЙ ФОНД СУМИ (SUMY PUBLIC FUND)
IBAN Code
UA113375460000026007050014759
Name of the bank
JSC CB "PRIVATBANK", 1D HRUSHEVSKOHO STR., KYIV, 01001, UKRAINE
SWIFT code of the bank / Bank SWIFT Code
PBANUA2X
2)Nova Ukraine humanitarian aid
3) Razom Ukraine
United Help Ukraine fundraiser - Medical aid and humanitarian relief for front lines
Money is important but becomes less useful in the zones of active conflict. The supply chains are destroyed. The army and people need lots of medical and other crucial necessities that can't be bought inside Ukraine. Below are the ways you can help with this situation:
4) HELP UKRAINIANS (Switzerland only) with medical materials – donators can bring the material to the Ukrainian Embassy in Bern, from Monday to Friday from 16:00 to 19:00
5) Help Ukraine –humanitarian and medical aid – money (globally) and material donations (Poland and Germany). The site lists all the instructions you need to help deliver the necessary supplies
6) Nova Poshta Global (a leading delivery company in Ukraine) has organized humanitarian aid delivery from global warehouses (USA, POLAND, UK, GERMANY, FRANCE, TURKEY) The list of warehouse addresses is below:
USA
27 Merry Lane NP100007070
New Jersey (NJ)
East Hanover
07936
+1973 463 00 88
+Mon - Fri 09:00-17:00
POLAND
18 Karola Miarki NP200007070
Aqua Calida
Jelenia Gora
Dolnośląskie
58-500
Polska
+48 531 888 192
+Pon – Pia 09:00-16:00
UK
Brother Parcel Post
Unit10, PhoenixPark, Parkwood NP300007070
Maidstone
ME15 9XN
Kent
+447926258649
+Mon - Fri 09:00-15:00
GERMANY
Rauschwalder Str 41 NP400007070
Aqua Calida Sp. z o.o.
Görlitz
02826
Deutschland
+49 151 58413734
+Mon - Fre 10:00-14:00
FRANCE
16,Rue Jacques-Yves Cousteau NP500007070
Villenave-d'Ornon
33140
GIRONDE
+33 6 23 11 47 27
+33 6 46 85 34 68
+Mon-Fri 09:00-18:00 �
TURKEY�
1. SPOST
Maltepe mah. Mevlevihane yolu cad 324 sok 4AE/2425 no:49 NP700007070
Istanbul
34010
Zeytinburnu
+90 0545 511 11 03
Mon - Sun 9:00 - 19:00
2.
ELİ ULUSLARARASI TAŞM VE TURZ LTD ŞTİ
Halkalı merkez mah Tuna cad Hekim sok No:16 A-B NP800007070
Istanbul
34303
Küçükçekmece
+90 0534 317 15 85
Mon - Fri 10:00 - 17:00
3.
İSTANBUL DAĞITIM LOJİSTİK
Habipler Mah 2718 sok No:20 NP900007070
Istanbul
34270
Sultangazi
+90 0532 256 95 09
Mon - Fri 10:00 - 17:00
4.
DSV Lojistik
Balçık Merkez Mahallesi Şile Caddesi No: 20 Arpacıoğlu Tesisleri A Blok NP110007070
Gebze
41400
Kocaeli
+90 0549 790 18 59
Mon - Fri 10:00 - 17:00
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