April 2nd, 2026
70,327 people evacuated from danger to date
90 people evacuated from danger this week
29 trips into deoccupied and frontline territories this week
This week we celebrate a dramatic surge in successful evacuations. In their last report, our Ukrainian teams recorded 90 evacuations — more than half of them from deoccupied areas near Kup’yans’k.
Stories
A Moment of Sincere Trust
Alina’s volutneer Ihor recently evacuated a family from Mykolaivka, including a girl named Yulia, with cerebral palsy, her mother Halyna, brother Arsenii, and grandmother Vira. The rescue was perilous; drones circled overhead and warning sensors constantly signaled danger, forcing Ihor to carry Yulia out in his arms, while her brother and a neighbor managed her wheelchair and loaded the minibus. Despite the stress of the six-hour drive to Poltava, the family remained incredibly resilient. Upon arrival, they were met by a friend, Anzhela, who had secured a fourth-floor apartment for the evacuees. As Ihor carried Yulia up the stairs to her new home, she hugged him with childlike trust — a profound experience that left him deeply moved and served as a powerful reminder of why this dangerous work is so vital.
Agricultural Project Begins
For the fourth year in a row we are launching our Agricultural Project, in partnership with Inna Kampen’s volunteers. As part of this effort, our Ukrainain teams will deliver seeds, and later seedlings to tens of thousands of families along the frontline.
The distributions will take advantage of the considerable sprawl of Inna’s network and its presence in dozens of towns. The recipients are carefully vetted to ensure that the aid reaches the most vulnerable groups, such as interanlly displaced people (IDPs) war widows, and families caring for loved ones with disabilities.
We continue to support the seed and seedling distribution, as we still feel that there is something hopeful and empowering in helping people to plant their vegetable gardens. These small family plots not only provide locals with a measure of food security and sense of self-determination, but remind many of a happier, more peaceful time, when they planted gardens near their homes — homes that have been destroyed, or occupied by Russia’s brutal and senseless invasion.
Please Buy Me a Frying Pan
Last week, Hryhoriy Maryanchuk and his wife Tamara took two boys shopping. Hryhoriy heads the Druzhbolandia center in the city of Tal’ne, which serves children from socially vulnerable groups. Tamara works at a local school, where many of the children study. The boys were brothers who had been forced to move 10 times because of the war. Too poor to buy summer shoes, they were still wearing their winter boots.
Hryhoriy and Tamara took the boys to a shoestore, where the older brother selected two pairs of sneakers, and the younger brother found one pair. The three pairs of shoes had used up all the money the adults had budgeted for this outing, but when they saw the sadness and quiet resentment in the younger boy’s eyes, they understood – this was not just about sneakers. So, they immediately went to a second store and bought a second pair of shoes for the younger brother.
The boy’s joy was boundless – there were tears of happiness in his eyes. But when the group was leaving the store, he timidly asked: “Can I have one other thing?”
Hryhoriy asked what the boy wanted, expecting that he would ask for a toy, a phone, or some other “fun” gift. But the answer was unexpected.
“Could you please buy me a frying pan?” the child asked. “I love cooking and my frying pan is very old.”
Hryhoriy and Tamara were so moved by this request, they couldn’t refuse. With his new possession acquired the younger boy was grinning and promised to invite the couple to come over for fried potatoes.
“At such moments, you understand the true value of simple things,” reflects Hryhoriy. “You understand how much these children had to go through. Thank God for the opportunity to be there and help. Thank God for the children He sends into our lives. May every child have a childhood filled with warmth and love.”
Team Summaries
Alina’s Team – Dobra sprava (Good Deeds)
Completed 8 trips, evacuating 38 people, including 17 elderly people with limited mobility, 4 children, and 1 child with cerebral palsy.
Inna’s Team – Krok z nadiyeyu (Step with Hope)
19.9 tons of aid delivered to 8,150 people.
4,200 people received bread.
Aid reached 31 locations, 10 of them in high-risk areas.
Kherson team disinfected and cleaned 5 spaces, including one large bomb shelter.
Continued to provide bread to 51 families and fuel to 76 people living in high-rises in Kherson’s red zones.
Traveled to Ukrainian-held parts of the Donetsk Region: evacuated 2 people, distributed aid, and supported events for people remaining in Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.
Oleksandr D’s Volunteer Networks
Oleksandr S. (Boyarka): Kyiv Region – offered a psychological support program for internally displaced (IDP) children and children from vulnerable groups in Boyarka; provided rides to and from the program for the children; distributed 350 kg of summer shoes and clothing to IDPs and families with children; delivered 1,800 kg of humanitarian aid to Ukrainka, for further distribution to those in need; distributed 430 kg of rice mixture to vulnerable groups in Boyarka and other parts of the Kyiv Region. Chernihiv Region – distributed rice in Borzna; delivered 500 kg of food, clothes, stationary, and toys to a widow raising 5 children. Sumy Region – distributed 950 kg of aid in the village of Verkhnia Syrovatka.
Vladyslav K. (Mykolaiv): delivered 35 tons of drinking water to Mykolaiv.
Sandra S. (Odesa): despite frequent air raids the kitchen was able to serve 600 meals.
Vitaliy Z. (Kharkiv): delivered 4 tons humanitarian kits, clothes, medicine, and animal feed to Sloviansk. Distributed 500 loaves of “Victory” bread and 1.5 tons of dog and cat food, also in Sloviansk. Evacuated a family from Slavkurort near Sloviansk – a woman, a man, and the man’s 93-year-old disabled mother. The women went by ambulance to the city of Lozova, from where they continued to the Khmelnytskyi Region. The man and the family’s belongings went directly to the Khmelnytskyi Region.
Serhiy A. (Kharkiv): in March, distributed 500 aid kits to blind and visually impaired people in various cities.
Yuri P. (Boryslav): delivered a total of 7 tons of clothing, medicines, school desks and mattresses to Ternopil, Uman, Khotiv, Kaniv, and Cherkasy.
Artiom S. (Hostomel’): distributed over 1 ton of used clothing, bread, potatoes, mashed potatoes, rice, pasta, oatmeal, and drinks to about 300 people in the villages of Levkiv, (Zhytomyr Region), and Horenka and Moschun (near Hostomel’).
Yuri S. (Vinnytsia): brought 150 kg of clothing and food to a psycho-neurological boarding school in Stryzhavka, 40 kg of clothing to a large family with 15 children in Bruslyniv, and 120 kg of clothing to a rehabilitation center in Vinnytsia. Delivered food to the Safe Space overnight shelter on 2 nights – 20 people were staying at the shelter on the first night and 15 on the second.
Valeryi K. (Lutsk): distributed adult diapers and urological pads to 45 families at the team’s distribution center.
Oleksandr Z. (Lutsk): provided therapeutic interventions and aid to IDP children and families, children and adults with disabilities, orphans, elderly people, military service members, children from military families, and amputees in Lutsk, Ostrozhets', and other parts of the Rivne and Volyn regions.1052 children and adults received help, including art therapy, theater therapy, music therapy, zootherapy, sports activities, help with bread and other food, help with glasses, dental, medical, and preventive procedures, and help with the manufacture of wheelchairs for children and prostheses and rehabilitation for adults.
Darya’s Team
Made 4 trips in the Kup’yans’k direction, taking advantage of Ukraine’s offensive, which liberated the ruins of Kup’yans’k from Russian forces.
Evacuated 48 people from 7 villages.
Delivered a total of 758 aid packages, as well as adult diapers, medicine, and 3 generators to Kup’jevakha, Lebedivka, Shypuvate, Rohozyanka, Sadovod, Stets’kivka Kasyanivka Kut’kivka, Hohyne, Kurhanne, Dovzhenka, and Katerynivka.
Karina’s Team – My ryatuyemo Ukrayinu (We Save Ukraine)
79 people in the shelter.
Natasha’s Team – Volontersʹkyy tsentr Vyshnya (Cherry Volunteer Center)
Tetiana traveld to the villages of Myroliubivka and Trudoliubivka, in eastern Kherson Region, delivering 225 packages and 70 packages for children.
Natasha traveled to Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, delivering 237 packages for IDPs from Lyman, and aid to the villages of Yarova and Drobysheve.
Pavel and Olena’s Teams – Dotyk sertsya (Touch of Heart) & Svitanok mriy (Dawn of Dreams)
448 families received a total of 9 tons of aid in Kobzartsi, Kyselivka, and Myrne.
Pomahaem Foundation (We Help Foundation)
405 packages distributed in Dnipro shelters — completing a project with World Vision
19 packages delivered to specific families in the area of Nikopol’. These deliveries required 2 trips to high-risk areas.
Marina’s Team – Daruy dobro Ukrayina (Give Good Ukraine)
150 food and hygiene packages distributed to internally displaced people in Piatykhatky.
Dina’s Team – Vilʹni lyudy, vilʹna krayina (Free People, Free Country)
Distributed 255 packages of aid in Kanev, Kremenchuk, and Poltava.
Served 1,190 meals in the soup kitchen in Kharkiv.
Delivered 150 packages of aid to displaced people in Zlatopil.
Bohdan’s Team — Vse robymo sami (We Do Everything Ourselves)
Food and hygiene kits were distributed to 42 families in Zhytomyr.
At the Club for Children with Disabilities, children attended fine arts, and culinary classes.
Alena’s Team – Diva (Virgo)
334 people received bread this week.
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