HEALTHCARE SUPPORT
FROM EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO SYSTEMIC PROCESS
As soon as we heard the news of the full-scale invasion on February 24th, 2022, our team refocused its activities to support the most in need: children and population living in front line villages, and healthcare specialists whose supply chain was disturbed by the war.
The call out from President Zelensky about the “totally unjust war” resonates in our heads so much that we had to put all our efforts to help the civilians and hospitals in need during these tragic times.
From the first van full of individual donations in basic medicine (March 11th, 2022) to the delivery of 4.2Mio worth of medicine donated by western countries, Emile Foundation (then Orphans Feeding Foundation) tirelessly worked on setting up a system to overcome the logistics of war and impact as many people as possible.
The national Ukrainian TV channel “Apostrophe TV” has followed our foundation during the delivery of medical supplies in Ukraine. It shows the result of all the work done upfront, from the international donations to the logistics across Europe and the collaboration with the local governors and the hospitals doctors. Thanks to this large network, we are able to make regular deliveries of medical supplies all over Ukraine possible, always personally, hand-in-hand, to ensure that the requested (and needed) items reach the right beneficiaries.
CANCER TREATMENT
Over the first half of 2022, Emile Foundation worked tirelessly with pharmaceutical companies, logistics firms, international donors and Ukrainian healthcare authorities to put in place a robust system. And in August 2022, we have been able to deliver the first shipment of cancer drugs to Ukraine!
1 ton of highly critical oncology medicines, kindly donated by the European Medicines Agency travelled from Vilnius, Lithuania to the Poland-Ukraine border, where our ground team took over. And another 1 ton of further medical supplies donated by the Government of Japan and UNOPS were made available to us by the Humanitarian Hub Zhytomyr charity.
Thanks to our various partners, we have been able to deliver these oncology preparations and other medicine directly to patients from hospitals in Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Kramatorsk.
This was only possible after many months of preparation, together with Valeri Zub, the Chief of the Ukrainian Oncology Committee, and the 28 oncology centers across Ukraine. We are very proud to have successfully launched this new project providing direct support to those indirect victims of the war, who suffer from the impact of the invasion on the supply chain of their life-saving medicines.
FRONT LINE DELIVERIES
The children and civilians of the front line villages are often left with little humanitarian aid, as large deliveries oftentimes get stuck in larger cities.
This is particularly crucial in winter. So our ground team makes sure they visit cities all over the front line to deliver (hand to hand) critical winter items.
In this video, you can follow our team visiting Kherson, Beryslav, Zaporizhzhia, Nikopol, Mikolaivv, Kryvyi Rih, Cherkasy, Kremenchuk, Poltava, Dnipro… and even Bahmut and Soledar the day before they fell!
12 cities in 15 days to ensure that our Ukrainian people are ready to face the cold winter days ahead.
At this time, Bakhmut and Soledar still held strong, even though they were facing heavy shelling and the bridges to reach them are being destroyed everyday.
During our mission, like many Ukrainian people, we ran into power shortage, cold weather, no food, no sleep, no access to communication… but we kept going despite all these challenges.
Thanks to the many donations of the Winter is Coming campaign, we have been able to deliver 16.7 tons of winter clothes, 24 tons of ready-made meals, 50 generators and 200 wood stoves to the villages of the front line. Our goal is to provide emergency humanitarian aid to those civilians who lost everything overnight.