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Medical & Humanitarian Aid
Razom: Emergency Response
UCCA: Ukrainian Congress Committee of America
Canada-Ukraine Foundation
Help Ukraine Center
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Organizations we have vetted so far are highlighted in yellow:
- Help.gov.ua (Donate) – Ukraine’s official website for sending humanitarian aid.
- United Ukrainian American Relief Committee (Donate) – provide vital medical supplies to victims, care for the injured and refugees, as well as shelter and food to those affected.
- UNWLA (Donate) – The Ukrainian national women’s league of America has been a champion for Ukrainian identity for almost 100 years. Focusing on humanitarian aid, culture and education, we continue to support Ukraine with our humanitarian aid.
- HealthRight (Donate) – teams on the ground are working to provide essential health services and supplies to families, clinics, shelters, and first responders who are helping displaced families during the war within Ukraine. Recipient of a USAID grant to implement the MAMA+ intervention for HIV prevention in Ukraine.
- Nova Ukraine (Donate) – Money from donations is allocated daily to frontline volunteers helping provide emergency resources to both refugees and citizens who have remained in the war zone in Ukraine
- Sunflower of Peace (Donate) – for medical assistance and other necessities. Each IFAK (medical backpack) can save up to 10 lives.
- Lifeline Ukraine (Donate) – for psychosocial support. Ukraine’s first suicide prevention hotline mobilized in response to alarming rates of veteran suicide.
- International Rescue Committee (Donate) – the IRC is in Poland supporting displaced children and families from Ukraine with vital supplies. (Note that IRC donations go toward all of their efforts, not just the Ukrainian ones).
- Sister of Mercy (Donate) – Kharkiv-based organization provides material and moral support to all victims in the anti-terrorist operation zone.
- Hospitallers (Donate)- a volunteer paramedic organisation, collecting money to purchase critical paramedic equipment and medicine locally and distribute on the ground in Ukraine.
- Donor.ua (Donate) – local organization collecting money to provide Ukrainian blood centers with consumables for blood collection.
- Everybody Can (Donate) – Supports children with disabilities, the elderly, and hospitals in general in Ukraine
- UA Hospitals (Donate) – Provides hospitals in Ukraine with desperately needed supplies and equipment
- Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund (Donate) – Providing shelter, food, clean water, health and psychosocial support, and access to education and economic assistance for refugees
Mothers, Children, & The Elderly
Help us Help
Save the Children: Ukraine
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Organizations we have vetted so far are highlighted in yellow:
- HelpAge (Donate) – provides help to the elderly affected by the crisis in Ukraine and elsewhere
- Voices of Children (Donate) – psychological/psychosocial support for children affected by the war.
- Saint Javelin (Donate, Store) – all proceeds of shirt and sticker sales go to a fund for the children of fallen and wounded Ukrainian soldiers.
- Razom: Toy Drive for the Children of Fallen Heroes – provides assistance for displaced people, orphans, and families of Ukrainian military who died or were hurt in action. Volunteers in Ukraine learn about needs on the ground and pass information on to us.
- Mama Moya (Donate) – provides direct financial assistance to vulnerable mothers in conflict and disaster zones
Veterans and internally displaced persons
Future Kyiv Charitable Foundation
Revived Soldiers Ukraine
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Organizations we have vetted so far are highlighted in yellow:
- People in Need: SOS Ukraine (Donate) – local charity building facilities for Ukrainian refugees, providing food, hygiene supplies, and psychosocial assistance, mainly on the border with Slovakia. Projects include a daily humanitarian “train bridge” connecting Prague and Ukraine.
- UN Crisis Relief: Ukrainian Humanitarian Fund (Donate) – contributions are collected into a single, un-earmarked fund and managed locally under UN leadership. As crises evolve, funds are made directly and immediately available to a wide range of partner organizations at the front lines of response. This way, funding reaches the people most in need when they need it.
- Ukrainian People With Disabilities in Crisis (Donate) – helps Ukrainians with disabilities – especially those who want but cannot evacuate – protect themselves in case of emergency.
- Caritas Ukraine (Donate) – provision of humanitarian assistance to various social groups and those impacted by the conflict.
- British-Ukrainian Aid (Donate) – assistance to vulnerable individuals who have been physically, mentally or socially disadvantaged, including the injured and wounded, orphaned children, the elderly, internally displaced persons and families who have lost their main earners.
- Ukraine Crisis Appeal (Donate) – the largest Australian tax-deductible fundraising effort for Ukraine. A collaboration between the Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations (AFUO), Rotary Australia World Community Service (RAWCS) and Caritas Ukraine.
- Embassy of Ukraine in the UK (Donate) – a special fund to provide humanitarian assistance to the victims of Russian war against Ukraine.
- World Central Kitchen: (Donate) – serving hot, nourishing meals to refugees crossing into Poland, Romania, Moldova, and other locations supporting Ukrainian refugees. WCK is also partnering with restaurants inside of Ukraine to get hot meals to anyone in need.
Independent media
Institute of Mass Information
Keep Ukraine’s media going
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Organizations we have vetted so far are highlighted in yellow:
- Kyiv Independent (Patreon, GoFundMe) – independent English-language news from Ukraine.
- Ukraine Crisis Media Center (Donate) – international strategic communications hub with active outreach to audiences both in Ukraine and abroad.
Religious and Ethnic Minority Aid
JDC: Emergency in Ukraine
ERGO Ukraine: Help Roma access humanitarian aid
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Organizations we have vetted so far are highlighted in yellow:
- Rabbi Bleich’s Help Kyiv (Donate, CashApp) – help set up a Refugee Camp for the Kyiv Jewish Community.
- United Jewish Appeal (Donate) – support urgent and mounting humanitarian needs including food, shelter, transport, and emergency medical units.
LGBTQIA+ & Feminist Aid
Insight NGO
KyivPride
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Organizations we have vetted so far are highlighted in yellow:
- Gay Alliance Ukraine (Donate) – Running a shelter in Kyiv and needs support for food, supplies, and relocation
- Fulcrum UA (Donate, Patreon) – Providing support & evacuation of LGBTQIA+ people from affected areas (e.g. Kharkiv) to Lviv
- Cohort (Donate) – helps trans people with food, shelter, relocation, and crossing the border
- GenderZ (Donate) – donations go toward covering the immediate needs of LGBTQ persons who have remained in Ukraine.
- Sphere (Donate) – feminist & LGBT+ organization in Kharkiv. Actively establishing the needs of their community and expect to need funds for housing, food, relocation from dangerous areas, hygiene products, warm blankets, mats, and more.
- Feminist Workshop (Donate, Patreon) – works for feminist social change in Ukraine
- Outright International: Ukraine (Donate) – will transfer funds to LGBTIQ organizations which are receiving LGBTIQ Ukraine refugees in search of shelter, safety and security.
- Ukrainian LGBT Military for Equal Rights Association (Patreon) – support LGBT military in their fight on the frontline and for equality of all citizens at home.
- We Support LGBT Ukraine Fund (Donate) – Canadian fund which supports LGBT NGOs in Ukraine
Defense Aid
UWC: Unite with Ukraine
Come Back Alive
War in Ukraine
Education
Ukrainian Leadership Academy
Ukrainian Catholic University Foundation
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Organizations we have vetted so far are highlighted in yellow:
- Razom: Veteranius (Donate) – help teach and employ veterans, volunteers and internally displaced persons in the IT sector and involve them in socially important projects.
- Razom: Bohdan Radchenko Stipend for Veterans (Donate) – tuition for a Master’s at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (KMA), Kyiv School of Economics (KSE), Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU).
Shopping – Profits Donated
Saint Javelin
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Organizations we have vetted so far are highlighted in yellow:
Physical Donations
- Poland: Volunteer Warehouse Centre – list of medical supplied needed as provided by the Ukrainian Territorial Defence Forces and from the Ukrainian Ministry of Health.
- US & Canada: Meest USA (Details); Meest Canada (Details) – Ship humanitarian aid for a reduced price and Meest will disperse as appropriate. Bring to any Meest location (US or Canada) or call Meest to find an agent near you. Alternative Toronto drop off: St. Joseph’s Ukrainian Catholic Church, Oakville, Ontario.
- UK, England: Ukrainian Institute London (Website) – Humanitarian Donations, Defence Donations, Volunteering, and More
- UK, England: Donation Drive for Ukraine (Facebook) – group to coordinate donation drives in the UK. Currently based in Oxford and London. If you would like to set up a donation drive please do share information about where and when. The donations will be handed over to NGOs or driven personally to neighbouring countries of Ukraine.
- UK, Scotland: Scottish Donation Drive (Instagram) – Please drop your donations off at one of our branches in Paisley, Coatbridge, Kilmarnock or Glasgow.
Country-Specific Organizations
- United Kingdom
- Refugee Community Kitchen (Donate) – Provides food to refugees in France and the UK
- France
- Aide Médicale & Caritative France-Ukrainе (Donate) – Medical and humanitarian aid
- Refugee Community Kitchen (Donate) – Provides food to refugees in France and the UK