Our trusted teams in Ukraine
Our team members risk their lives every day, often working directly in the enemy’s crosshairs. To inspire Ukraine, and uplift the morale of the cities under siege, they maintain public profiles, despite great risk to their personal safety. We admire their selfless heroism and respect their choice to remain visible. Teams that operate privately will never be listed here.
Alena · operating in Odesa
Alena, a real estate professional during the times of peace, is an experienced volunteer based in Odesa. She helped thousands of refugees in Odesa, delivered aid to the liberated territories and to the sites or terrorist attacks in Southern Ukraine. For many months we supported Alena's efforts through Natalia Mitsuta's organization, until Alena established her own NGO Virgo to optimize logistics. Prior to 2014, Alena lived in Ukrainian Donetsk, but had to flee her home city after Russia-backed gangs usurped the city in 2014.
Alina · operating in Kharkiv and Luhansk
Alina, originally from Dnirpo, began her volunteerism in 2014. It was then that she met future members of her nonprofit Dobra Spravo, including Ihor who had been actively helping people in Donbass impacted by military conflict. Over time, their group grew into a strategic, efficient team able to respond deftly to emergencies. Just one day after the full-scale invasion began, Alina’s team had opened a humanitarian aid center in Dnirpo, and a week later they were evacuating from Kharkiv, then from the Luhansk region where shelling was happening daily. Currently, they are focusing on evacuating and supporting Ukrainians in the Donetsk and Kherson regions.
Anastasia ·
Anastasia was born in the Luhansk region. Her home town has been under occupation since 2014. At the start of the full-scale invasion she started helping volunteer centers and hospitals in Dnipro. Together with two other people, Anastasia co-founded a charitable organization "Love UA." One of the main missions of the organization is delivering humanitarian aid to de-occupied territories and towns near the frontline.
Andriy · operating in Kharkiv region
Andriy is a priest and an iconic figure in the Dnipro suburbs; he has been running an effective NGO called Pomahaem since 2014. He formed and manages a shelter that serves as the base for his team’s daring missions rescuing the most vulnerable victims of the Russian invasion. His fearless teams systematically evacuated orphanages and nursing homes from the Kharkiv area, often under direct enemy fire. What makes his team extra special is that in addition to the evacuation, at the shelter, he holds community events and provides education to children housed there, as well as assists his evacuees in their journeys further west, to Italy, Portugal, Norway and other European countries.
Bogdan · operating in Zhytomyr
Bogdan founded the NGO Vse Robimo Sami (We Do Everything Ourselves) when he was 16, and has led it for over 20 years. This organization has worked with children with special needs from large and economically distressed families. They have built playgrounds, organized camps and theater programs, and helped with rehabilitation. Since the full scale invasion, Bogdan’s organization has continued supporting children with special needs and their families, and is also helping hundreds of internally displaced families in their area.
Dina · operating in Kharkiv & Dnipro
Dina became a volunteer leader in the first days of the war, after she was forced to leave her thriving real estate business in Kharkiv and relocate to Dnipro. Dina’s NGO Vilny Lyudi - Vylna Kraina has aid distribution in 4 cities around Eastern Ukraine. She procures aid and manages a network of volunteers who support the elderly and people in need. In the early weeks her buses evacuated hundreds of people daily, but as the need for Kharkiv evacuations declined, she refocused her efforts on scaling humanitarian aid deliveries to Kharkiv and supporting evacuees from other cities, such as Mariupol, Berdyansk, and Severodonetsk.
Inna · operating in Southeastern Ukraine
Inna’s NGO Krok z Nadiyeyu provides humanitarian aid to refugees in more than 30 locations across Eastern and Southern frontlines, serving 10,000+ families weekly. UTC is the primary source for funding of 40 tons of aid shipments, and its distribution across Inna's centers.
Karina · operating in Dnipro
Karina procures humanitarian aid and supports miraculous evacuation missions to Mariupol, Berdyansk, Severodonetsk, Lysychans’k, and other hard-hit cities. She works closely with Dina, who introduced Karina to TrustChain. Karina is also a realtor who knows the terrain and has an excellent network of connections that helps her to be efficient in her volunteer efforts. Her courage and energy are awe-inspiring.
Kseniia · operating in Kyiv
Kseniia, a florist in her previous life, heads a massive volunteer operation in the Kyiv area. Her efforts are always focused on the most urgent needs at hand. She has collaborated with other groups including Natalia’s to supply kitchens and restaurants that feed thousands of people daily. She has also been active in helping medical institutions, outfitting blood transfusion centers in Kharkiv and intensive care units in Kyiv’s civilian and military hospitals. Like other large Kyiv teams, Kseniia’s group, Livyj Bereh, is doing everything to save the liberated towns of Bucha, Borodyanka, and others from humanitarian catastrophe, left in the wake of the unfathomable atrocities perpetrated by the invaders.
Marina · operating in Dnipropetrovsk Region
Marina was among the first to establish charity in her town of Pyatikhatky in Dnipropetrovsk region. In 2018, she started a volunteer group that grew into a public organization called “Free Shop,” which provides free assistance to vulnerable populations. At the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Free Shop already had six sites in four communities and a team of 30 people. Marina is the heart of the organization and the driving force behind all initiatives implemented by Give Good Ukraine, which regularly provides aid to thousands of individuals
Natalia · operating in Kyiv
Natalia heads our largest flagship team that includes more than 70 volunteers in different roles. Her efforts concentrate on the most urgent opportunities for providing humanitarian aid, starting with helping elderly people unable to leave Kyiv and shifting to feeding thousands of people in Kyiv. Currently, she focuses on sending humanitarian convoys to the Chernihiv area and the liberated towns of Bucha, Irpin’, and Hostomel. Natalia is recognized in Kyiv as one of preeminent forces in the humanitarian relief efforts within the capital.
The connection formed with Natalia gave our founder the initial idea for the TrustChain organization. See our founding story for details.
Oleksander · operating across Central and Eastern Ukraine
Pavel connected us with Oleksander, a scholar and volunteer leader based in Lutsk, who organizes and coordinates humanitarian aid deliveries and evacuation missions in Central and Eastern Ukraine. He works with a number of small mobile teams and larger volunteer organizations such as Inna Kampen’s “Krok z nadiyeyu” (Step with Hope).
Pavel · operating across Southern, Eastern and Northeastern Ukraine
We are convinced that Pavel will become a global symbol of selfless and fearless virtue. Pavel’s caravans have to date evacuated over 21,000 civilians, more than half of them children, from the most dangerous battle zones of Southern, Eastern and Northeastern Ukraine. TrustChain began supporting Pavel’s rescue missions right away; on the fourth day of the war, TrustChain sponsored a bus that allowed him to evacuate an orphanage out of Kherson a day before the city was taken by the enemy.
Tetiana · operating across Central Ukraine
Tetiana heads a growing volunteer organization Dopomoga Poruch 2022 (“Help is Close by 2022”) operating in and around Smila, where she grew up and worked as a seamstress. Since the start of the war, Smila and surrounding villages have seen a great influx of refugees from Kharkiv, Sumy, Bucha, Sievierodonetsk, Kramatorsk and many other cities from the war-torn regions of Ukraine. Tetiana has been helping refugees, local hospitals and residents with food, medicine, and other resources. Her small and very effective team procures and distributes goods to those in need in Smila and nearby.
Timur · operating in Kharkiv
Timur is a Kharkiv native, specifically of Northern Saltivka (the hardest hit part of the city). Before the Russian invasion, he was an aspiring musician. Timur, with the help of his team of 30 local residents, has procured and distributed thousands of packages of humanitarian aid. They enter occupied areas under heavy shelling to deliver aid to people who haven’t seen any help in months.
Vitaliy · operating in Kyiv
Vitaliy, a lawyer from Kyiv, began his active volunteer work with the non-profit organization AMICUS UKRAINE in July 2022, immediately after the start of the full-scale war. With his team, he organized and directly imported humanitarian aid worth tens of thousands of dollars for hospitals and other civilian and government organizations. His team comprises individuals from diverse professions, including businessmen, consultants, and engineers, all working towards a common goal. In recognition of his significant contribution, Vitaliy was awarded the medal of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in 2022.
Vladislav · operating across Ukraine
Vladislav is a metal artist by trade. Prior to the war, he practiced his art in a small studio in Kyiv. From the firstз days of the war, Vladislav became a volunteer, evacuating people to safety, delivering food and medicine, and helping to create a mobile medical clinic. These efforts resulted in the founding of the charitable organization Angelia Fund, which focuses on providing free medical care and humanitarian aid to people impacted by the war all over Ukraine, but particularly in de-occupied territories.