Donation outcomes 2024

We are providing regular and continuous support for our Ukrainian sangha, their families and friends whose lives are changed forever.  We keep checking with those who stay in Ukraine and those who need support as refugees.  We are happy to help families with children, for medical expenses, transportation and school.

November 2024

Through Oleg Vernigorov, our news anchor, we sent money for a drone. 

 

We helped sangha members who were sick and couldn't work. We also helped another sangha member to buy a cake and other treats for their birthday. 

We sent Iryna money for evacuation car repairs for her soldier friend.  

And a bullet proof jacket for the soldier.  

Through Yana we sent money for single mothers.  One family has 4 children including triplets.

Diapers for triplets and some small supplies

The family is very poor, transplants from Kherson

The triplets also got winter gear, boots, toys and food 

AND Diapers for other single mothers' children 

We provided money to buy books for the library Rainbow in Limansky District (Donetsk region)

We sent money to Antonina for homeless cats.  

October 2024

We helped Lena to buy supplies to support people in Beryslav and Antonivka:


We raised funds to help Andriy to buy a car - no photo yet, will post when available. 


We supported a sangha member who is ill, and his bedridden mother. 


We provided additional help -- see below for pictures with details -- including donations provided through Iryna, Dali and Yana.  

Spare parts for car repair for a soldier

through Iryna Vorobieva

Sleeping bag for a soldier

through Iryna Vorobieva

Through Dali Kapanadze we helped to buy an electronic protective measure, electromagnetic spectrum (EM spectrum), a machine for destroying enemy drones 

We helped with funding for a car for the safe execution of combat tasks that saves lives of personnel.  For a soldier, a friend's brother.

 

Through Yana we bought 20 tourniquets, helped a single mother and bought books for soldiers including books on History of Ukraine. (photos below)

September 2024

Eco-flow for aerial reconnaissance.

Donated through Iryna Vorobieva

Bought lithium batteries for drones

Through Iryna's friend we helped to buy a drone.

We helped to buy a drone and car spare parts for a sangha member's daughter's husband, a soldier. 

We sent money to support Lena's next trip to Kherson.  Pictures are forthcoming. 

We bought groceries  for a sangha friend

Through Yana Walder we donated for:

August 2024

Sent money for drones

Sent money to feed abandoned and sick cats

Sent money to help single mothers with children, through Yana. 

(Photos posted with permission.)

Sent  money to support sangha in Ukraine

July 2024

We provided funds for a generator for a sangha member and his elder mother in Kiev.  

Ecoflow portable delta 2 power station

We sent money through Yana for:

We sent money towards purchasing spare parts for drones through the daughter of another sangha member.  

Below is her letter:


"Hello dear friends! My name is Natalia.  Earlier I asked for your help for my military husband, and now I’ll ask for my classmate Dmytro, a good friend, and loving father of a 1-year-old son.

Dmytro has been serving in the 5th separate assault brigade since 2023. Before the mobilization of his own free will, he was a volunteer and helped the boys from the first days, and now he needs help himself.

At the moment, his brigade needs funds for spare parts for fpv drones, which they assemble themselves. So we’ll be glad if you can contribute to the financial assistance and we’ll be very grateful for your contribution to the victory of Ukraine."

June 2024

Through Yana we provided help for single mothers, drone repairs and masking nets for soldiers.

We donated money for the publishing of a monograph:   

ALLA HORSKA- Ukrainian Artist


This Saturday Артфундація ДУКАТ and publishing house Rodovid present long awaited monograph with 200+ reproductions of Alla Gorska works at the Mystetskyi Arsenal.

 

Thank you Julie Gershunskaya, Vlad Beresovsky, Ella Reznikova, Iryna Vorobiova, UNWLA, Branch 50, Ann Arbor, MI, UNWLA Br. 111 - Los Angeles, California Est. 1991, UNWLA Br. 96, Detroit Branch of Shevchenko Scientific Society, Sangha for Ukraine, Roman Hryciw, Solomia Soroka, Oksana Malanchuk, Myroslava Stefaniuk, Eugene Surdutovich, and Marie Zarycky for your generous support.

Through Iryna Vorobieva we sent money for car repairs for soldiers

We sent money to Lena Samoilenko to support her next trip to Kherson, on June 22nd. 

On this trip she will provide help to 300 families with disabilities, limited mobility, and elder populations who require walkers, diapers, urological pads, ointments for bedsores, wounds and medication.

Sonoma/Kaniv Ambulance Fund

Per Tarney's request, we donated to a project to send an ambulance full of medical equipment to Kaniv, Ukraine, through the Sonoma Sister Cities Association.


A MESSAGE FROM SONOMA SISTER CITIES:  

Thank you for helping to give this lifesaving ambulance wings. Your contribution is greatly appreciated!

May 2024

(See photos below)

Through Iryna Vorobieva: 


Through Yana we provided for bullet proof vest covers.


We donated money to help with kidney transplant surgery for a family member of a Ukrainian friend. 


We supported three sangha members.


We provided money for cat food.  

Family camp for children

We are providing money to organize a family camp for 70 children, through Iryna Vorobieva.  

17 are children of soldiers who are fighting in the front

2 of the children have lost their fathers.  

The camp will happen in the Carpathian mountains in a remote village without sirens. 

Car repairs for soldiers

through Iryna Vorobieva

Through Yana we provided money for bullet proof vest covers, for men and women. 


This included lighter weight vests which are more suitable for women. 



We sent money for cat food.

 April 2024

 Through Yana, we supported:


(Photos below)

We sponsored a sangha member to take retreat, and another sangha member to help pay for utilities. 

We sent money to support the reconstruction of the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design that was shelled recently.

Tourniquets and uniforms

Diapers for adults and children

Books for a library that was shelled.


We sent money to feed cats. 

March 2024

We supported two Ukrainian sangha members to attend retreats.

We assisted sangha members to pay utility bills.

We helped Antonina to buy food for homeless cats.


And, we supported our volunteers with the Daughters of Ukraine fundraiser, see below. 

Successful Fundraising for Daughters of Ukraine in March.

We raised $5K and our Sangha for Ukraine fund matched with $5K.


You can find more about the volunteers and what they presented on March 10 at this link (which is also the last tab on our website):  

 https://sites.google.com/view/ukraine-tonglen/fundraiser

February 2024

We donated money through Iryna Vorobiova towards purchasing two cars for soldiers.  Iryna is personally familiar with these soldiers.

My husband and the unit he serves in are currently in one of the hot spots.

Despite all the inconveniences and dangers that may befall them there, there are things that remain the same. And these are very bad roads. And when I say "very", I mean "VERY".

Fast movement and logistics are one of the keys to quality performance of tasks. And I really want guys to be able to close that basic need.

Therefore, I am opening a collection for an SUV for the 3rd OShBr unit, in which my Sasha serves.

For a year already in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, my brothers and I have been fighting the aggressors of a neighboring country. Now we need your help - we need to buy a four-wheel drive bus in order to perform a wider range of tasks. 

We donated money through Irina Bondarenko to support an exhibition in Kiev

The importance of the exhibition of Alla Horska organized in Kyiv at this hour is difficult to overestimate. By honoring the artist whose unbreakable spirit became a symbol of resistance, it shows our support to Ukrainians who continue to live, work, and create despite bombardments, and educates people around the world about Ukrainian art and history. I think the sponsorship of Alla Horska will show support for Ukraine and serve educational purposes as well.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alla_Horska


We support Antonina Drana, who keeps finding abandoned and sick cats, treating them and finding them a good family. 

From Antonina

I express my gratitude for the overwhelming help from Sangha for Ukraine in compensating for the purchase of food for cats. 

Thank you infinitely! Together with the wards, we now have a supply for two weeks, something to please the tailed ones. 

We sent money to a member of the Ukrainian sangha who has financial challenges.

"I bought honey, food, pills, paid for the phone, paid for the utility bill, and bought the chain saw.  Thank you!"

January 2024

Through Yana Walder we sent money for oxygen tanks for ambulance, tourniquets, and support for single mothers.  

Oxygen tanks for ambulance

Tourniquets

Single mothers

Single mothers

Through Lena Samoilenko we supported providing medication for people in Kherson.

Also we supported Lena to enroll in drivers license school:

https://autocityschool.com/avtoshkola-avto-siti-m-brovary-vul-yaroslava-mudroho

We sent money to support the parents of Maksym Kryvtsov, the Ukrainian poet and soldier who died at war 

https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-war-poet-maksym-kryvtsov-death/32769907.html

We continued our support to Sangha members.

We sent money to the cat mother, Antonina Drana.  Many of her cats need medical assistance.