Current Grassroots Hero Projects
Current Grassroots Hero Projects
Our projects support local everyday heroes who are improving the lives of Ukrainians.
Helping Children Thrive
Creating spaces to help children regain their sense of safety and normalcy is essential to their emotional well-being and future development.
Tens of thousands of children have lost their homes during the war. Your donation will help provide them a safe and engaging space to play, create, learn and laugh. It will provide toys and gifts for displaced and orphaned children, arts and recreation materials for activities, and structured wellness activities which help children grow and thrive even under the threats of war.
Every Child Matters
We believe every child matters. Like Artemis, who began to lose his sight when he nine and is now completely without sight. Artemis likes creating stories but his family could not afford a braille board. Or Sophia, a 10-year-old girl who requires ongoing treatment for a painful congenital facial mass. Sophia loves school and likes to draw. When she grows up she wants to become a doctor. But without her medication her condition quickly worsens with pain so severe that she cannot get out of bed.
Helping with unmet needs of children does more than relieve their suffering. It is an investment in their future.
Canes for the Elderly
The elderly are among the poorest persons in Ukraine, often living alone and surviving on meager pensions. Many also struggle with severe arthritis and other crippling mobility difficulties which severely diminish their quality of life.
Each month we provide canes and mobility assistance devices to impoverished elderly living in remote villages. This means they can again visit friends, shop at the store, and enjoy warm sunny days outdoors. Who would have thought a simple cane could make such a difference in a person’s life.
Food for Dignity
Hundreds of women and men live forgotten behind the locked doors of the Odesa psychiatric hospital. Many have lived here for years, many will never leave. Crowded into wards which offer neither privacy nor dignity, they sleep on ratty, dirty mattresses and sit idly as days pass into years. There are no visitors to this decrepit, centuries-old building, only memories of lost dreams and lost families.
The Saturday visits by volunteers represent much more than a serving of fresh fruit and baked goods. The visits are a reminder that walls can neither stop humanity nor strip people of their dignity.