The top 5 news on the platform. September.
News about the best projects of September on the dobro.ua platform. The month was busy and we did a lot of cool things together. Read more about humanity, support, and strength of spirit in the selection below. Join our community of good and let's continue to make changes together!
‘Spring Kurazh 2024: Lisova Polyana Centre for Psychological Rehabilitation of Veterans, Lisova Polyana Resource Centre’.
Funds raised through the Spring Courage 2024 project are used to strengthen the centre's multidisciplinary team with 5 clinical case managers who act as a bridge between patients and doctors. Such support ensures the effectiveness of the activities, as a result: the symptoms of avoidance are reduced and the involvement in group activities has increased 10 times. The activities include excursions, art therapy, equine-assisted therapy and many other therapeutic practices.
Since the first days of the war, the Lisova Polyana Resource Centre has been working to restore the mental health of Ukrainian soldiers and veterans, as well as civilians affected by the war.
‘Let's help overcome unbearable pain’, Gromadyanyn Charity Foundation.
Our defender Oleksandr Popyka was seriously injured on the frontline in Bakhmut. The shell fragments damaged his spine and affected his spinal cord. Since then, unbearable pain has been his daily companion. Oleksandr is undergoing rehabilitation and taking his first steps. But for further progress, the defender needs a neuromodulator - a device that relieves pain and allows him to move forward with confidence towards recovery.
The cost of the neuromodulator is UAH 837 447. The benefactors of dobro.ua raised UAH 579,867.
At the end of September 2024, the specialists of the Romodanov Institute of Neurosurgery successfully performed a surgery. Romodanov Institute of Neurosurgery successfully performed the operation. On the second day after the operation, he felt a significant reduction in pain for the first time.
‘Kurazh July 2024: BEHIND BLUE EYES’, BEHIND THE BLUE EYES FOUNDATION.
During two years of volunteer trips to the frontline regions, the volunteers saw a lack of leisure space - no clubs and recreation facilities. This is how the Blishchyk festival was born - a synonym for the word ‘spark’, whose goal is to ignite a creative fire in every child and show them what cool things they are capable of.
More than 200 children from 12 villages in Mykolaiv Oblast attend 36 workshops: modelling on a 3-D printer, designing old things into new ones, immersing themselves in the world of cinema on a film set, drawing graffiti, collages and compositing, sound engineering, music and sound design, and much, much more. And in between, they will enjoy hot dogs with lemonade from the winner of MasterChef 4, Artem Kabulakhin.
Visitors raise funds for the project in the amount of UAH 635,850 at the July Kurazh.
To implement the programme, the project team purchases UAH 289,000 worth of consumables, pays for the work of teachers - UAH 144,000, rents premises and buys furniture - UAH 202,000.
‘Demine Ukraine’, CF "SOLOMA CATS".
The CF "SOLOMA CATS" is transferring equipment worth UAH 25,758 as part of the Mine Action for Ukraine project. The foundation is equipping and transferring 5 individual sapper kits for the 241st separate brigade of the Territorial Defence Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which are needed to clear land and water from explosives.
Also, a sapper kit for remote mine disposal for the explosive ordnance disposal service of the National Police. The military uses this equipment to safely and effectively clear various types of anti-tank mines. It allows for the removal and unscrewing of fuses by remote control, minimising the risk to the operator's life.
In total, 148 sapper kits and 3 tablets have been purchased over the 2 years of the project's existence for demining in Ukraine.
‘Children's Hope: Help for Kharkiv Oblast Children's Hospital. Onco 2’, dobro.ua.
Together with Kyivstar, we continue to implement the charity programme Helping Children with Cancer.
As part of the Children's Hope project, on 09 September 2024, we delivered a BJPX-SP10 platelet incubator and medical supplies to the paediatric oncology department of the Regional Children's Clinical Hospital in Kharkiv.
The incubator is used to maintain the required temperature and constantly stir platelets. The platelet concentrate is used after chemotherapy in children when the platelet count drops to a critical level. The equipment is also designed to store vaccines, blood plasma and other biological materials.
The amount of assistance is UAH 325,626.
