Gas Burners for Ukrainian families$22,970, or 250 gas burners, were delivered to Balabyne, Kushugum, and Malokaterynivka in Zaporizhzhia region, 15km from the frontline.
91 generous people donated $22,970 in total. The amount varied from $5 to $11900 - each transaction made this whole humanitarian mission possible.
The campaign was run by UkraineNow & Law for People.
Since the beginning of the war, large territories of Ukraine have been occupied. These regions were instantly cut-off from electricity, gas or water. At their own risk, civilians cooked outside their homes and bomb shelters as no amenities were available. Even in danger of being hit by shelling, cooking outside was crucial to survive.
After liberation, they are still in danger as the war continues. While the whole of Ukraine is bombed daily, frontline villages suffer hourly.
Located just 15 kilometers from the war, Russian howitzers reach houses easily, causing massive damage and losses. For people there, the air raid never stops, shelling causes gas and electricity outages that last for days. A solution should have saved civilians from the danger and helped them stay warm during the cold weather.
With the initiative of Law for People, a solution has been found: a gas burner.
It's a quick and easy way for people to cook food inside their homes- outside campfires are not an option in winter. The price of one gas burner with a fill-up was $100. One cylinder is enough for a one-week use by four people. Plus it is reusable and can be filled up at the local gas station.
So, UkraineNow sent a call to donors to collect $20,000. That would be enough to provide 250 gas burners with one fill-up - so people could start using them immediately.
Read below how the delivery was organized.
Donors from the US, the UK and other countries in Europe could not let families starve and freeze to death. The money was collected in less than 2 months.
91 generous people donated $22,970 in total. The amount varied from $5 to $11900 - each transaction made this whole humanitarian mission possible.
As a result, $22,970, or 250 gas burners, were delivered to Balabyne, Kushugum, and Malokaterynivka in Zaporizhzhia region, 15km from the frontline with help of Law for People volunteers.
The volunteers delivered the gas burners on a one-week trip. The main priority was given to large families with children and elderly people. Law for People also organized the fill-up procedure for people together with the authorities.
Along with gas burners, volunteers brought food boxes. Each food box was purchased thanks to monthly subscriptions.
One donation per month feeds another family.
We continue our close cooperation with Law for People. Their trips are extremely dangerous as they visit Donetsk, Kherson, and other heavily damaged regions. Civilians need help there the most.
We'd like to supply them with anything that people need on the ground. Thanks to generous donors, we are able to do so.
The war is not getting easier or slower. We are grateful to everyone who helps us adapt quickly and stay resilient to new challenges :pray:
"We wanted to ask people to give us some quotes about their lives for a video. But they refused. Why? People live in fear that there will be another occupation soon. Even if it's a temporary one. Civilians understand that they will have to survive it somehow.
Not that they are ready to accept it - but they understand that they may temporarily have to wait until they are liberated by the Armed Forces. Therefore, we provided them with gas burners in a very timely manner." - Artem Solomakha, founder of Law for People.”
Our focus is on providing humanitarian aid to Ukraine, evacuation of women, children, and vulnerable people from the war zone, and improving living circumstances of Ukrainians affected by war.
We also frequently partner with organizations and volunteers in Ukraine to help them make their impact in a matter of weeks instead of months.
Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, UkraineNow has brought together more than 2,000 volunteers across 20 different nationalities and a variety of languages. Additionally, UkraineNow was supported by multiple companies.
UkraineNow is an initiative of a US-based 501c3, IRS-approved non-profit organization Radical Philanthropies, created in 2020 by Artur Kiulian.
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