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While the Ukrainian Armed Forces keep fighting for the Ukrainian cities and towns, Metinvest Group continues to be the greatest source of support to the civilians behind the lines. The Saving Lives project has already helped more than 282,000 Ukrainian people.

Launched by Metinvest in coordination with the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation at the beginning of the war, Saving Lives has focused on providing food packages and hygiene kits to people as well as on supplying medicines, consumables, and equipment to the hospitals. Since the outbreak of the war, more than 282,000 Ukrainian people have benefitted from the project.

Delivering basic essentials

Since September, certain categories of Metinvest employees have had access to food packages provided as part of humanitarian assistance: Metinvest employees and members of their families, retired staff members with a long service, etc. Overall, the company provided assistance to 80,000 of such people. The distribution centres are arranged at 20 Metinvest companies, including plants in Zaporizhia, Kryvyi Rih, Kamianske, Pokrovsk, Dnipro, and Kyiv. The company has prepared more than 102,000 food packages, with 40,000 packages to be distributed in Kryvyi Rih distribution centres.

Earlier, Metinvest already provided food packages to the families of Metinvest’s conscripted employees, retired workers, and employees in receipt of welfare benefits: single mothers, families with many children, and people with disabilities.

GEOGRAPHY OF ASSISTANCE

Ukrainian distributions centres have received 3,882 tonnes of life-saving cargoes from Poland: Zaporizhzhia – 1,786 tonnes, Kryvyi Rih – 1,023 tonnes, Kamianske - 549 tonnes, and Dnipro – 524 tonnes.

In addition, Saving Lives continues sending food packages to liberated areas and front-line regions. In particular, Metinvest does not leave residents of the Avdiivka community to fend for themselves, supporting those who have no chance but to live under constant shelling, without electricity, water, gas, and heating. Avdiivka Coke Plant employees bring kits with long-term storage products to these people, right to their shelters.

Helping residents of Metinvest’s shelters located in the areas where the company operates is another area of focus for the initiative. The project supplies hygienic kits, food packages, and food products for cooking meals to the shelters. In particular, three shelters in Zaporizhia have recently received another aid convoy of 800 kg of food products, including pasta, sweets, cereals, infant formula, flour, etc.

For quality treatment

In addition, the Saving Lives project provides a strong support to Ukrainian doctors, making regular deliveries of medicines, consumables, and cutting-edge equipment to designated hospitals in Kryvyi Rih, Zaporizhia, and Kamianske.

For example, Kryvyi Rih City Clinical Hospital has received an expert class anaesthesia and respiratory device, and an emergency hospital in Kamianske has received a universal electrosurgical machine and a mobile digital X-ray that will improve the quality of services provided to patients. In total, the initiative has already provided support worth €240,000 to Ukrainian hospitals.

AID IN NUMBERS

The Saving Lives project sends humanitarian aid convoys to 37 communities in Ukraine.

Thanks to international support, the initiative is expanding the scale and geography of assistance. To date, the initiative has brought together about 100 donor companies from across the globe – from Germany, Italy, Poland, the Netherlands, Spain, the United States, the UK, Switzerland, Greece, the United Arab Emirates, and other countries.

ALDI chain has recently partnered with the project. To reel in even more donors, Saving Lives Ambassador Darijo Srna has called on Champions League clubs to join the initiative. Metinvest employees have also joined the humanitarian project through donations to the Do it Together charity.