Grantee: Public organization “Journalists Association "Alternative”
Implementation Project Area: The project will be implemented in the right-bank de-occupied part of the Kherson region, including the city of Kherson.
Project status: active
Implementation period: 01.03.2023-31.07.2023
Aim of the Project: To unite the disparate volunteer movements of the Kherson region and, due to this, to make the humanitarian support of the de-occupied right bank of the Kherson region more systematic, taking into account the needs and requests of the local population. To conduct an information campaign - to tell how the de-occupied Kherson Oblast survived the winter and spring of 2023 - in order to increase the amount of humanitarian support from other regions of Ukraine and from abroad.
Additional Information:
The target audience of the project is residents of the specified region, low-income and large families, families with infants, people with disabilities, pensioners, IDPs. In the regional center, for example, 80,000-100,000 of the 350,000 residents remain today. The population of the villages of the right bank has halved, but it is still about 120,000 people.
We provide people with a basic set of food products - flour, sugar, oil, rice, pasta, various cereals, canned goods, bread. Baby food - milk mixtures, cereals, fruit and vegetable purees. Hygiene products - soap, washing powder, toothpastes and brushes, shampoo, shower gel, bleaches, napkins, toilet paper, feminine hygiene, baby and adult diapers, diapers, etc.
Therefore, during the implementation of the project, it is provided:
They were actively engaged not only in the formation and delivery of food sets. The campaign "Warm blankets" was successfully implemented - more than 2,000 warm blankets and blankets were collected and delivered to the people of Kherson. On an ongoing basis, we collect and deliver to villages and across Kherson hygiene products that come from different parts of Ukraine, Sweden and Germany. As part of the campaign "Let's read in Ukrainian!" received and continue to distribute books in the Ukrainian language and educational and entertaining board games.
The requests of the people of Kherson and representatives of the de-occupied communities also influenced the final goal of the project. Thanks to the implementation of the campaign "Let's read in Ukrainian!" our project also has a cultural component - we cooperate with city and school libraries, deliver children's Ukrainian books to families with many children, families with children, and families raising special children.
We established contact with public organizations and volunteer movements in Spain, Germany, and Sweden. Delivery of aid from these countries to Kherson became possible only after the deoccupation of the regional center.
The daily work of the volunteer team of Kherson journalists is reflected in monthly reports and best of all illustrated in media publications about our activities and daily posts on social networks. During the five months of project implementation (from March 1 to May 15, 2023), 171 posts were made.
From March 1, we started implementing our new initiative "Warm blankets" - providing Kherson residents and residents of the region with warm blankets.
From March 13, we will implement the "Kherson plus Spain" initiative - a great help to our city from the association Zuera Solidario María Pilar Comín Pueyo from the town of Suera, Zaragoza province.
From March 22, they started to implement the "Bike Volunteers of Kherson" initiative for more efficient work on address delivery in Kherson.
From April 4, we will jointly implement the initiative "Let's read in Ukrainian!" - we deliver Ukrainian books and educational games for children to addresses in Kherson and its suburbs. We help libraries.
Since April 10, we have been implementing the "Clean Kherson" initiative - we received 400 sets of children's and family hygiene, and within a month, several large batches of hygiene were distributed.
Since April 10, we have been implementing the campaign "Easter Landing in Kherson Oblast" - we received and delivered Easter Easter cookies and goodies to the children.
From April 27, we will implement the "Kherson plus Sweden" campaign - help with food and hygiene products for the people of Kherson.
From May 3, we will implement the promotion "Kherson plus Germany" - help with food, hygiene products for the people of Kherson, as well as children's toys and blankets.
From May 7, we will implement the campaign "Take care of babies" - milk formulas, baby hygiene and baby care products for young mothers and newborns in Kherson and the region.
During the implementation of the project:
In March, 18 tons of food packages were shipped to 12 villages from five communities of the Kherson region. 1,800 food kits were delivered to 1,800 Ukrainian families, a total of more than 5,500 people (the final figure is still being calculated).
March 12 – Zabalka Kherson TG
March 13 – Komysany Kherson TG
March 14 – Romashkovo Bilozerska TG
March 15 - Fedorivka Dar'ivska TG
March 21 - Sofiivka Stanislavska TG
March 22 – Krutyy Yar Chornobayivska TG
March 23 – Antonivka Khersonska TG
March 24 – Bilozerka Bilozerska TG
March 25 – Kizomys Bilozerska TG
March 27 – Veletenske Bilozerska TG
March 29 – Chornobayivka Chornobayivska TG
March 31 – Oleksandrivka Stanislavska TG.
The following trips were made in April:
- Komyshany, Krutyy Yar, Fedorivka, Bilozerka - delivery of warm blankets.
- Komyshany and Bilozerka - delivery of grocery sets, hygiene products.
- Textile Village - delivery of books and entertainment games.
The following trips were made in May:
- Zelenivka, Zabalka - food products and hygiene products
- Fedorivka, Zelenivka, Bilozerka, Komyshany - milk mixtures, hygiene products, food products
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- Arkhangelsk (152 km from Kherson) - delivery of warm blankets and blankets, hygiene products
I would like to describe the work in June separately - it was the busiest month. On June 6, the occupiers blew up the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power plant, which again turned Kherson's life upside down. And if the first
during the week of June, we were engaged in our usual business - targeted assistance to the people of Kherson, after June 6, all our efforts were aimed specifically at helping people affected by flooding, receiving, distributing and delivering humanitarian aid that came to Kherson from all corners of Ukraine and the world. After June 6, they worked without a single day off, every day from morning to night.
June 1 – address delivery in Kherson, help for children as part of the Kherson + Sweden campaign and help from Kharkiv and Dnipro, a trip to Komysany with gifts for children.
On June 2, we received help as part of the Kherson + Lviv action from the NGO "Impuls" (Skole, Lviv Oblast).
June 3 – address delivery in Kherson, assistance from Kharkiv.
June 6 – address delivery in Kherson.
On June 7, they purchased drinking water, hygiene products, and aid to the first evacuees.
June 8 - a big help to Zabalka.
June 9 – assistance to evacuated and flooded areas in Kherson.
June 10 - help from Rivne, a 20-ton truck was sent to Bilozerka, part of it was taken to Komysany, 3 buses - to communities in Kherson.
On June 11, they helped the evacuated and flooded areas of Kherson.
June 12 – targeted assistance to residents of the Shumensky microdistrict of Kherson who suffered from flooding. Help was delivered to the residents of Zabalka.
June 13 – again with help in Zabalka, we bought drinking water and hygiene.
June 14 – received aid from Romania, address delivery in Kherson, took aid to Komyshans.
On June 15, we received powders for water disinfection, assistance to flood victims in Kherson.
On June 16, they received help from Lviv as part of the "Kherson + Lviv" campaign of the NGO "Meridian Center for Information Research and Resource Services", they received help from the Sumy Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which was immediately delivered to the residents of the Shumen district, they received help from volunteers from Stuttgart.
June 17 – targeted assistance to evacuees from the left bank and Korabel microdistrict, 20 tons of drinking water were delivered to Pryozerny thanks to cooperation with the NGO "Desyate April" from Odesa. June 18 - hygiene products and lanterns were purchased and delivered to the victims - aid from the German-Ukrainian Society of Freiburg.
On June 19, aid was delivered from Rivne to the residents of Bilozerka, and aid from Freiburg continued to be distributed in Kherson.
June 20 – address delivery in Kherson.
On June 21, they received help from Stuttgart, Kyiv (Bykivnia district), Novovolynsk - BF "Novopomich", they were immediately taken to the Kherson hospital and to Komyshan and Sadovoy.
June 22 – targeted assistance for Kherson that was received from Freiburg and Sumy.
June 23 – received help from Transcarpathia – three beads. One was unloaded in Shumensky, the second in Tavriysky, the third in the center of Kherson.
June 24 – address delivery in Kherson, delivered what arrived from Transcarpathia.
June 25 – aid was brought from Kyiv to Zabalka.
On June 26, they received help from Lviv from the NGO "Meridian Center for Information Research and Resource Services", they took them to condominiums on Shumenskyi.
On June 27, we received help from Sweden from the NGO Caps and Candles for Ukraine and from the German city of Braunschweig from the Society "Freedom of Ukraine - Braunschweig". Help was brought to Sadovoy.
June 28 – Swedish aid was taken to the residents of the village of Muzikyvka, medical supplies and hygiene were brought to the Muzikyvka dispensary.
On June 29, we received 1.5 tons of disinfectants and antiseptics from the NGO "Rotary Club Kharkiv "New Level", a part was immediately taken to Zabalka.
On June 30, we received 7 tons of aid from the NGO "Syla Uzhgorod", immediately transported Shumenskyi, Zabalka, and two trucks to Sadovoy.
In July, most of the volunteer team's work was also aimed at addressing the consequences of the environmental disaster caused by the occupiers' detonation of the Kakhovskaya HPP.
The sale of shares "Kherson plus Uzhgorod", "Kherson plus Lviv", "Kherson plus Transcarpathia", "Kherson plus Sweden" continued.
In five months, 86 promotions were carried out for the address delivery of grocery sets, warm blankets, blankets, hygiene, baby food, medicine in Kherson and its suburbs. 8,600 sets were delivered.
