All efforts are aimed at helping people: what the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation has done in 60 days of war

From the first days of the new stage of the war, the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation has focused its every effort on helping people in need. First and foremost, we are talking about humanitarian aid – food kits for the temporarily displaced and the most vulnerable people in Ukraine, as well as medicines for public hospitals.

In 60 days of the large-scale war, the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation has provided charitable aid to the people of Ukraine: more than 540,000 units of medicines, more than 60,000 haemocontainers and more than 130,000 food sets. The food sets included condensed milk, flour, pasta, sugar, wheat groats, pate, and canned stews. They were distributed in coordination with local authorities, while the distribution of medicines was coordinated with the Ministry of Healthcare of Ukraine. During this time, humanitarian aid from the Foundation has reached 940,000 people.

One of the priorities of the Foundation's work is psychological support, which is especially needed by those who have escaped from the epicentre of hostilities. The Rinat Akhmetov Foundation in Zaporizhia has opened emergency psychological assistance points for people evacuated from Mariupol and Volnovakha. Professional psychologists of the Foundation help people recover from the first shock.

In 60 days, the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation's helpline received more than 18,000 calls. The largest number of calls about how to get aid from the Rinat Akhmetov foundation was registered in those regions that had suffered from the war the most. Since 2014, the unique Museum of Civilian Voices of the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation has been collecting the world's largest archive of stories of civilians affected by the war. The Museum's archive is a source of first-hand information about life during the war, as well as a psychotherapeutic project for people who have survived the trauma of war and share their stories.

It should be noted that aid is provided under the Rinat Akhmetov – Saving Lives programme. Over 16 years of operation, the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation has helped eight million people survive, including 3.5 million civilians rescued in the Donbas.