This winter, Rinat Akhmetov Foundation donated more than 200 tonnes of food aid to cities on the frontline and for IDPs
During the coldest months of the year, the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation provided support to people in the hottest – frontline – Ukrainian cities. Similar aid was also provided to the most vulnerable IDPs. Over this period, the Foundation has donated more than 200 tonnes of food.
Among the cities that received food parcels from the Foundation were Sloviansk, Druzhkivka, Dobropillia, Sviatohirsk and Kramatorsk.
At the same time, the Foundation was able to deliver vital products to villages and towns located just a few kilometres from the frontline. In particular, these are the settlements of Sviatohirsk community, Kramatorsk district and others.
Another focus of this military winter has been to help frontline shelters, which are places where people who have just evacuated stay for a few days.
“Humanitarian aid will always be needed in any situation. And when you need to leave, too”, said a woman who left Toretsk with her daughter.
All distributions are made with due regard to the security situation on the ground. And also, as quickly as possible.
“In general, everything in Donetsk region now needs to be done very quickly”, said Mykola Osychenko, a volunteer, the Foundation’s ambassador and head of Mariupol TV.
The Foundation also provided aid to IDPs from the communities occupied or destroyed by the enemy – Bakhmut, Volnovakha, Popasna, Selidovo, Pokrovsk and others. The distributions were carried out in Kamianske, Dnipro, Odesa, Pavlohrad, Kropyvnytskyi, Svitlovodsk, Poltava and Kharkiv.
Zaporizhzhia is a regular destination for the aid. The local “Green Centre” is constantly distributing food to IDPs of privileged categories living in the city. During the winter, people whose homes were damaged by the bombing in October 2024 also received aid.
Each set contains essential food items: pasta, sugar, salt, flour, cereals, sunflower oil, canned beans, stewed meat, pate and biscuits.
Since 2014, the Foundation has provided more than 13 million food parcels to Ukrainians. The aid is provided under the Rinat Akhmetov Saving Lives programme.
SCM businesses, the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation and FC Shakhtar have already donated UAH 11.3 billion ($315 million) to help the country, the military and civilians over the 36 months of the full-scale invasion.
For advice on the conditions of receiving aid, please call the Foundation’s toll-free hotline 0 (800) 509 001 or write to the Foundation’s messenger http://m.me/AkhmetovFDU
