To Ukraine With Love is saving lives in Ukraine and helping move refugees from the war-torn sections of the country. I was introduced to this organization by my dear friend Vasil Osipenko who is from Kiev. Started by his niece Svitlana Miller, To Ukraine with Love along with the Ukrainian Consul General has already helped feed babies and provide drones and solar power to the civil defense groups across Ukraine.
URGENT NEED
A hospital in Kharkiv Ukraine which was bombed again on April 16 is in need of a portable x-ray machine and additional equipment to remove shrapnel so that people do not need to have their limbs amputated. This need is critical and immediate.
Since the war began, the hospital has seen 10,000 wounded and the trauma unit is overwhelmed. Doctors are working non-stop but because they do not have the right equipment or the staff to handle the vast number of cases, they have to amputate to save lives.
ToUkraineWithLove.org is working to purchase the needed equipment from Germany. They have raised almost $20,000 for the needed equipment but need to raise a total of $85,000.
ON-GOING EFFORTS
The Transportation Project focuses on regions recently freed from Russian occupation. Funds go to:
- Transport women, children, and elderly from newly freed territories to Western Ukraine and Eastern Europe
- Deliver medical equipment from the Central Europe to medical clinics in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, and Kharkiv
- Deliver donations from LDS members collected in Central Europe to L’viv, Kyiv, Dnipro, and others
Funds donated to the Transportation Project will be used to purchase passenger vans (9 seats), semi passenger/cargo vans (6 seats), handicap vans (6 seats + 2 handicap spaces), and cargo vans in Poland and Germany.
Please donate to this important work. Once you donate, Log Your Donation and I will send you a Sunflower Print as a thank you.
The vans will be operated and run in Ukraine by the non-profit organization formed and headed by the Kyiv Stake Presidency (Oleg Kravchenko). They will:
- Deliver medical/humanitarian supplies to the recently freed up territories in Central and Eastern Ukraine.
- Transport women, children, elderly, and handicapped to the Ukrainian border and Eastern Europe.
- Continue providing funds for fuel and van maintenance.
Every penny of your donation helps get supplies into the hands of everyday Ukrainians and free refugees leaving war zones.
ToUkraineWithLove.org is the public name or “doing business as” name for the 501(c)3 nonprorofit organization Stand With Ukraine, based in Idaho (EIN 88-0982973, ID file number 4627561). Your donation is fully tax-deductible.
Please donate to this important work. Once you donate, Log Your Donation and I will send you a Sunflower Print as a thank you.
Recent News
https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/ukrainian-man-leaves-utah-to-go-help-his-people
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https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2022/03/04/emotions-were-too-strong/
https://www.abc4.com/news/local-news/sleepless-nights-for-orem-family-with-loved-ones-in-ukraine/
More about To Ukraine With Love
ToUkraineWithLove.org’s story began when friends, family, and neighbors in Idaho responded with vigor to Ukrainian-born Svitlana Tolmachova Miller’s call for help. Within ~90 hours of making people aware of opportunities to provide humanitarian aid, $70,000 of goods were on the ground in Poland and on their way into Ukraine.
Desperate to do something, anything, to help the people of Ukraine, Idaho Falls resident Svitlana Tolmachova Miller had researched that a military plane would soon be making a standard flight from Salt Lake City to Germany and that humanitarian aid items could be placed on that plane. Miller reached out to her friends Max and Masha, who own grocery stores in Ukraine. They confirmed that they would be able to deliver goods into Kyiv and other threatened communities if the goods could be transported from Germany to their warehouse in Poland, just next to the border of Ukraine.
With a plan in place, Miller contacted her extensive network of friends on the ground in Ukraine and asked what their communities needed most. Among those items: bandages and blood clotting agents, instant ice packs, knee guards, pain relievers like ibuprofen and Tylenol, and unarmed eye-in-the-sky drones (used to identify the movement of Russian troops, as well as to identify wounded people in buildings after attacks and explosions).
Within a matter of days, Miller had received $65,000 in donations and goods through her Venmo account, PayPal, and neighbors dropping by with supplies and envelopes of money. Family and friends quickly gathered to organize and pack the donated supplies. Miller’s husband Daren personally accompanied the goods on the plane, then purchased more items in Germany with additional $5,000 cash donations made while he was en route.
What relief when Miller and her growing team of Ukraine supporters received photos and videos showing that their goods were in the hands of everyday Ukrainians and their brothers and fathers in the trenches!
At this stage, it was clear that a system was in place to quickly get relief to the people who needed it most. Miller contacted attorney Mike Payne, who rapidly organized a nonprofit. One Ukrainian student studying in the U.S. set up the website and another created professional-quality videos.
People eager to help started coming out of the woodwork. Five young entrepreneurs who had each spent two years living in Ukraine reached out to Miller and offered to spread the word, solicit more donations and set up a fundraising benefit dinner. Miller was invited to participate in a gathering at the World Trade Center Utah. Dmytro Kushneruk, Consul General of Ukraine in San Francisco, turned his enthusiasm for Miller’s project into a solid endorsement. Victor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine from 2005 to 2010, wrote a compelling letter of support. U.S. Senator Mitt Romney and Congressmen John Curtis joined in encouraging donations to benefit ToUkraineWithLove.org.
And now, you have the opportunity to join the ranks of supporters. The primary need now is for cash donations being used to purchase goods in Europe and to provide gas for Ukrainians risking their lives to transport the goods to people in many of Ukraine’s most devastated communities.
“I’m convinced Ukraine will win this war,” Miller says. “But at what cost? Our mission here on this side of the world is to provide Ukrainians with resources to match their courage. We must help them outlast the attacks of their oppressors. What’s vital now is for individuals, small businesses and large corporations to overcome their complacency and to convert their distress into action. I have spoken firsthand with people in Ukraine who have used our eye-in-the-sky drones to get their people out of harm’s way. Grandmothers who tell us our food packages are the first they’ve received in three weeks. Young mothers who were so stressed that they couldn’t produce sustenance for their children now have baby formula. If anyone questions whether relief efforts are making a difference, I’m here to say they are.”
Please donate to this important work. Once you donate, Log Your Donation and I will send you a Sunflower Print as a thank you.