Your donations in action: review of activities from March to August 2022

Since the start of the Russian military campaign to invade Ukraine on February 24, 2022, marking the new phase of the war in Ukraine, a surge of generosity in financial and material donations and a mobilization of more than 150 volunteers has enabled us to deliver medical and humanitarian aid to hospitals and populations in Ukraine, organize psychological aid, distribute basic necessities to orphans and young people traumatized by the war and support the wounded welcomed in France.

This aid was made possible thanks to the significant support of companies, community foundations, hospitals, cultural institutions, associations and individuals in France.

Financial donations and grants of €3 million made by more than 10,000 donors. Nearly €2.4 million was used for:
The purchase of IFAK first aid kits and wound care devices (€1,598,414) including:
11,800 IFAK kits (9 components: tourniquets, occlusive dressings, Israeli dressings, haemostatic gauze strips, survival blanket, woven adhesive tape, tactical scissors, dermographic felt, medical gloves)
2,479 ITClamp intuitive wound closure devices for controlling haemorrhage in hard-to-reach areas
5,000 pressure bandages
2,120 abdominal bandages
1,080 Blast bandages for amputations and burns
2,012 Israeli dressings
12,973 tamponade dressings
15,490 survival blankets
21,810 pairs of medical gloves
171 medical backpacks
The purchase of orthopaedic equipment and negative pressure wound treatment for hospitals in the Odesa region – €33,190
Purchase of 19 ambulances – €414,978
Ongoing purchases:
2 ultrasound scanners, 2 neonatology systems, 2 phototherapy devices and Ligasure devices for two gynecological departments of Zaporozhye hospitals – €100,000
V.A.C devices for negative pressure wound treatment – ​​€72,142.92
Medical consumables – €74,505
Ambulances for the cities of Kharkiv and Mykolaiv – €100,000
External fixation devices for osteosynthesis – €15,000
In-kind donations made by 51 donors (medical companies, 19 clinics, hospitals, medical centers) and 40 ambulance drivers, and distributed to more than 150 medical institutions in Ukraine.
32 trucks of humanitarian aid sent to Ukraine:
23 trucks of medical equipment (University Hospitals of Poitiers, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Nantes, Lille, Hospices Civils de Lyon, hospitals in the Paris region and AP-HP, several cancer treatment centers, companies in the medical and logistical aid sector),
4 trucks of medicines from the Tulipe humanitarian pharmaceutical establishment,
5 trucks of humanitarian aid for internally displaced persons (new clothing, food, basic necessities)
96 vehicles sent to Ukraine, including 76 ambulances (19 purchased and 57 donated), 14 vehicles for transporting people with reduced mobility and 6 hearses. Aid provided to 1,200 internally displaced children in Ukraine: distribution of new clothes and food in orphanages, organization of art therapy sessions in orphanages and homes for children with disabilities or displaced people from eastern and southern Ukraine, located in the Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk regions.
The aid was distributed as close as possible to the needs, according to the emergencies communicated by our partners. Its logistics followed the developments in the regions that were suffering from Russian attacks. Thus, it was distributed in the regions of Kyiv, Zhytomyr and Chernyhyv, Sumy and Poltava, Donetsk and Luhansk, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Odessa, Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia.

Our volunteers have also set up:

A seminar “Crisis consultation, practical experience” in person and remotely, to help Ukrainian psychologists, some of whom are refugees themselves, to take care of people in need of urgent help.
French FLE lessons for a group of Ukrainian refugees in Paris.
the support of 13 war wounded treated in hospitals in Ile-de-France: help with administrative follow-up, psychological help, daily follow-up with taking care of material needs not covered during their stay, organization of visits for relatives from Ukraine, etc.
Today, more than 150 volunteers, including the 12 members of the Board of Directors (divided into 22 working groups) and 2 recently recruited employees, work tirelessly to find and deploy this aid as close as possible to the victims.

We thank our donors, our partners and our volunteers for this extraordinary surge of solidarity.

We thank the Embassy of Ukraine in France for supporting our actions.

Contact

amcpresse@ukr.fr