We are
Direct Aid Ukraine
We are a London-based team of volunteers with families and friends in Ukraine. Our founding members work across healthcare, marketing and tech industries.
Fuelled by love for Ukraine we use our personal strengths and professional skills to fundraise for projects that tackle medical shortages in Ukraine.
We meet urgent medical needs
Access to medical aid can be the difference between life and death for those defending Ukraine. Unfortunately, many essential life-saving medical items are not readily available. We are here to change that.
Direct Aid Ukraine collaborates with frontline medics, hospitals and support groups in affected areas to identify critical medical needs that are hard to meet within Ukraine. We organize fundraisers in London and online to tackle these medical shortages.
Our medical supply purchases and donations are coordinated by Co-Founders Kseniya Prudyus and Kristina Gren, in partnership with established charities like British-Ukrainian Aid and grassroots organizations on the ground in Ukraine.
We provide photo and video evidence of aid purchases and deliveries. Our supporters have full visibility of how funds are spent.
How we spend the funds
July, 2022
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£9,500 raised in 3 months through individual donations to online campaign, hosting a Picnic for Ukraine in London, attending events and giving talks at supporting organisations for in-house fundraisers
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£8,000 of the funds was spent on purchasing and delivering an ambulance to Kharkiv in Ukraine in collaboration with British-Ukrainian Aid
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£1,500 was spent on essential medical aid including first aid kits and shipped to Ukraine in the ambulance
February, 2023
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£8,250 raised in 3 months through online fundraising campaigns and volunteer fundraisers, including a supporter's hike of Mount Kilimanjaro.
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The funds were spent to purchase and deliver 500 Ready-heat blankets designed especially to prevent hypothermia in casualties in cold weather.
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Blankets added to medpacks in coordination with our partners at British-Ukrainian Aid and sent to the front lines in Kharkiv and Bakhmut.
March, 2023
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£800 raised through a Swing Dance for Ukraine event in collaboration with Sunshine Swing
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All funds contributed towards first aid medical kits in collaboration with British-Ukranian Aid
June - September, 2023
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£1,500 raised through three Ukrainian flower crown (vinok) crafting workshops hosted in London.
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All funds contributed to purchase CAT 7 tourniquets for medics in Ukraine.
August, 2024
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£700 raised through Hip Hop for Ukraine event in collaboration with London Jazz Works
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All funds will be sent to Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital in Kyiv which was damaged by a missile strike
November, 2024
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£500 raised through the Christmas Pavuk workshop in collaboration with King's College Ukrainian Society
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All funds raised have been donated to “Aurum” a comprehensive rehabilitation center providing medical and psychological help to civilian and military patients impacted by the full scale invasion.
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