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The humanitarian mission of the Saving Lives project continues as more and more Ukrainians need support with every passing day of the war. Contributions from the international partners and benefactors has helped provide 374,130 people with many kinds of assistance.

The Saving Lives initiative established by Metinvest, in cooperation with the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation, was meant to prevent a food crisis in Ukraine in the wartime. First, the Polish hubs collected and sent non-perishable foodstuffs and hygiene products to Ukraine. Then the humanitarian initiative expanded its scope, providing hospitals with medicines, equipment, and consumables. Later, Saving Lives began supporting cultural and social events, and developing psychological rehabilitation and prosthetics treatment programmes for the military and civilians. Now Saving Lives is a powerful project that provides systemwide assistance to the displaced, residents of the front-line and liberated areas, and war-affected people.

DOING MORE

Saving Lives expands the geography of assistance daily. Currently, it hands over food packages, hygiene kits, and medicines to Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, Donetsk, Kyrovohrad, Kherson, and Odessa regions.
Recently, the project has tied up with the Masha Fund as part of its Unbreakable Mom project designed to improve the psychological and emotional well-being of participants, prevent the development of PTSD, develop the ability to adapt and self-actualise, and form new social connections.

Saving Lives has recently taken another important step, starting cooperation with Protez Hub, a project to support prosthetics treatment in Ukraine. It is designed to provide prosthetic services for those who lost their limbs during the war, and develop a Ukrainian-language online training platform for limb prosthetists and other rehabilitation specialists.

The assistance under the prosthetic treatment and psychological rehabilitation programme has already reached 158 people. For more about these stories, go to The Unbreakable Mom's Diary or read pieces about the path to a fulfilling life by Anatoliy Uzlov and Dmytro Kulinich.

In addition, Saving Lives has helped build a large playroom in a shelter near Kamianske. This has become possible thanks to the support provided by an Italian law company, a donor partner of the project.

INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

Nearly 200 businesses and organisations from Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Greece, UAE, and other countries have been supporting Saving Lives. The project's ambassadors take advantage of their high public profile and reputation to bring in more people and raise as much money as possible to promote the initiative and save Ukrainians.

The donor partners have transferred €2,324,235 in aid and donations since the start of the humanitarian drive.

Saving Lives focuses on provision of food packages and hygienic kits. Employees of Metinvest companies in Zaporizhia have recently received another batch of assistance from the project.