A Charity Update — The Last 4–6 Months
You might have noticed things have been a little quiet on the blog. Don’t worry — we haven’t been sitting around eating biscuits. Quite the opposite. The last four to six months have been a whirlwind of raising funds for our partners delivering aid, building new tools to support Ukrainian healthcare workers, a productive forum in Ukraine, and planning what is shaping up to be our biggest Ukraine deployment yet. Let us catch you up.
🔥 Keeping the Lights On — Literally
Ukraine’s winters are brutal at the best of times. During an active war, with Russia systematically targeting the power grid, they become life-threatening. A portion of your donations over these months went directly to fuel for generators — the unglamorous but absolutely critical lifeline keeping clinics running, food warm, and people alive when the electricity disappears for days at a time. We were also able to buy powerpacks and propane heaters. Absolutely critical in a -25C winter with no power.
Here is where else your generosity landed:
Elohim Charitable Foundation — Korosten
Based out of a church in Korosten, the Elohim team are one of those groups that make you feel simultaneously inspired and exhausted just hearing about them. A dedicated band of volunteers serving internally displaced people, refugees, disabled people, frontline villages, military units, chaplains — and running mobile clinics in some of the most desperate areas of the country, in partnership with our friends at CMA Ukraine.
Your donations provided fuel for their generators, and food, and hand warmers for them to deliver to the needy during the worst of winter. Small things. Enormous impact.
“Hope in Christ” Charity (near the Russian border) & Kharkiv Mobile Clinic Team
Yes, near the Russian border. These people don’t do easy. Hope in Christ works with local churches and doctors and the CMA Ukraine mobile clinic team, running community health awareness projects, mobile clinics, handing out food and aid parcels, warm clothing, and caring for displaced people who’ve fled from even more dangerous places — only to land somewhere that is still very dangerous. Generator fuel and power packs for clinic equipment kept their work moving through the darkest months. Your contributions also helped pay for food parcels and mobile clinic work.
Fortress of Good Charity — (Banner of Love Church, Kryvyi Rih)
This one is also close to our hearts. A portion of donations went to repair windows for an elderly widow who does volunteer work for this church — and was facing the bitter winter cold ( it went down to -25C) literally coming through her walls. The funds also purchased propane heaters deployed in de-occupied territories, where the Fortress of Good team works with people who’ve lost their homes, running children’s programmes and delivering humanitarian aid.
This winter most of these areas were without power much of the time due to russia’s attacks on power infrastructure.
Sometimes the most important thing you can do is fix someone’s window. This was one of those times.
A Church in Dnipro — Heating for the Children
When the power is out most of the time and it’s freezing, keeping children’s activities running is an act of defiance and hope. Donations here went directly to heating so that kids could gather, be warm, be safe, and be kids — while volunteers continued delivering medical and humanitarian aid across the city.
The Ark Church — Dnipro
The Ark Church does it all: refugee support, humanitarian aid, children’s programmes — and rescues and evacuations from frontline areas. Yes, actual evacuations. Your donations funded generator fuel through winter and food packets for the people they’re pulling out of harm’s way.
We also did some mobile clinics with them, partnered with CMA.
Curtains. Yes, Curtains. — A Special Delivery
Sometimes aid looks like a generator. Sometimes it looks like a food parcel. And sometimes — gloriously — it looks like curtains.
Thanks to a wonderfully generous donor, we were able to deliver curtains and room dividers to our mobile clinic teams. This might sound modest until you learn that some of these clinics were previously using bedsheets for privacy — and literally hammering blocks of wood into walls to hang them on – only to have to dismantle them after the clinic from the temporary building. These are spaces where people are being examined, treated, and cared for with dignity. And dignity deserves better than a flapping bedsheet held up by a chunk of timber that takes the team hours to put up and down.
The new dividers won’t make the news. But they will make a real difference to every patient who walks through those clinic ‘doors’. A huge thank you to the donor who made this happen — you know who you are, and so do the patients.
Update: 24 April 2026 – Dr M from this team went to pick up the parcel with these curtains from the post office. The next day the post office burnt down along with many other buildings in his village as their area comes under increasing attack.
CMA Ukraine — Our Primary Partners
Running through all of the above like a backbone is CMA Ukraine — our primary partner organisation, who work with many of the smaller NGOs listed here and deliver critical medical education, mobile clinics, medicines, medical equipment, and humanitarian aid where it’s needed most. We continue to provide them with regular support, because they are the engine that keeps so much of this work moving.
Something New Is Coming — The Medical Education Platform
Here’s the part we’re genuinely excited about. Behind the scenes, we’ve been building an online education platform specifically designed to support and mentor Ukrainian healthcare workers — because the need for medical training doesn’t pause for war. If anything, it intensifies.
Over the last several months we’ve been delivering online lectures, helping our partners with systems and strategies to streamline their clinic work, and laying the groundwork for something that will serve Ukrainian health workers and their communities – long after the shooting stops.
More details coming soon — but this is big, and we’re proud of it.
Health professionals can sign up HERE to be the first to hear more.
Five Months in Ukraine — We’re Going Back
And the big news: we’re deep in planning for a five-month deployment to Ukraine later this year. Five months of mobile clinics, medical training, frontline support, and being where we’re needed most. It’s our most ambitious trip yet, and we cannot do it without you. Our trip and our work will be fully self-funded but we need support for the work in Ukraine that our partners continue to do and that we are going to support.
How You Can Help
Every donation — whether it’s the price of a coffee or a generator’s worth of fuel — goes directly to the people and partners you’ve just read about. No fluff, no overhead theatre. Just aid, delivered.
We’d love you to join our HEROES BOARD and commit to $20 per month or more. Regular giving is what keeps the work going.
Thank you for reading, for caring, and for making all of this possible. We’ll keep working. You keep believing in us and in Ukraine.
With gratitude (and a healthy amount of strong Ukrainian tea),
Lara, Ron & the team