Ukrainian families need your support

Written on 04 March 2022.

Dear friends, colleagues and everyone who knows us and our entire GCU Team, as well as me, as a co-founder of the Green Cross in Ukraine and just as a person who has always helped and lent his shoulder to everyone who needed help and not only in Ukraine.

Now we, our people, need humanitarian help.

We appeal to everyone with a request for help, who can support in this very difficult time for us in Ukraine.

Today, March 4, 2022, hostilities continue in Ukraine as a result of Russia's invasion on the territory of independent Ukraine.

The most affected regions are Kyiv, Chernihiv, Zhytomyr, Kherson, Sumy and Kharkiv regions.

We want to inform you that the central office, the entire GCU team, regional coordinators in the regions where our organization has been operating for 23 years, continue their humanitarian work in difficult conditions.

We now in Kyiv see all the horror and fear in the eyes of children and the elderly people. Families hide in bomb shelters and basements from airstrikes, rocket attacks and shelling.

We are recruiting additional staff and volunteers to carry out activities in the new challenging humanitarian environment.

Currently, our efforts are focused on providing humanitarian assistance to affected families and volunteer helpers.

Thanks to the coordination and operational financial support from Green Cross Switzerland, timely humanitarian assistance was provided to the city of Slavutych, which faced difficulties in providing residents with food, especially bread, essential goods.

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Thanks to the support from GCCH, we can quickly resolve issues with the help of those who in dire need of it now.

We are sincerely grateful for this solidarity and financial support.

Thanks to sensitive and kind people from Chernivtsi, we received additional crutches (50 pieces) for the military hospital, which they donated to us, and we are now waiting for their delivery to Kyiv in order to transfer them to the hospital in the city of Dnipro. Yesterday we shipped the first batch of crutches we purchased with GCCH funds. Thank you.

Hospitals keep appealing to us for help, as well as people who cook food intended for our civilians and volunteer helpers, who still live and work in our cities and villages. Currently there are problems with food supply. Particularly the most needed are flour, milk, fuel, medicines, crutches for the wounded persons and food for the civilians and volunteers who are living in the cities.

For our part, we are trying to do our best and will continue to do so, but without your support it is very difficult.

We really need financial support.

We will be grateful for any help.

PLEASE HELP THOSE WHO ARE SUFFERING IN THIS VERY DIFFICULT SITUATION.

Sincerely,

Yuriy Sapiga, Chairman of the Board and the GCU Team