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Humanitarian Help for Ukraine provides humanitarian aid to those in Ukraine who are adversely affected by the current conflict. We focus on three areas: medical supplies, ambulances, and support for those who are distressed due to the loss of a family member.

Donations by check can be mailed to:

Lifting Hands International
1167 W Brooklyn Ave
Salt Lake City, UT 84104

Please include “HHU” on the memo line. Thank you!

Our association with Ukraine began in 2013 through business connections. In February 2022, we began work using our established networks in Ukraine to provide humanitarian support in various forms. This support included one of our team working alongside Ukrainians to rebuild a destroyed farmhouse and a community center near Chernihiv north of Kyiv.

Reaching our goal will provide: 

  • Medical supplies and recovery services for the severely wounded

  • 30 ambulances in various configurations to provide evacuation and transport for wounded and displaced

  • Assistance for the most vulnerable Ukrainians who have lost a family member or means of subsistence.

The evolving situation in Ukraine means that help is needed more than ever. Some sources of support have diminished. Give today to provide aid that is desperately needed.

In August 2022, just six months after the full-scale conflict engulfed Ukraine, one of our team flew to Kyiv to join teams rebuilding what had been destroyed since February 2022. We wanted to be on the ground, side by side, adding our personal assistance. The first weekend, we helped to demolish the remains of the home owned by an elderly couple whose farm had been hit by artillery. 

Following this demolition, a second crew would come to rebuild the house from the foundation. Dozens of people, mostly young Ukrainians, spent hours picking up rubble and dumping it in carts to be taken to the dump. The farmer talked to us as one of the young people translated. With tears in his eyes, he told us that he and his wife were so poor when they were first married that they bought one brick at a time and carried it to this spot on their bikes. Now it was all gone. When he learned some of us had come from the Americas to help, he simply kept saying through his tears “I can’t believe you have come so far to help me.” 

The following weekend, we performed similar work at a community center. One could see the slope where the seats once were, the orchestra pit, and stage, but the rest was destroyed and burned.  Leaning against one wall was the charred remains of a grand piano—a stark reminder of the brutality of war, the senselessness of such destruction, and the fact that the impact of war is felt far beyond the front lines.

All donations to this campaign are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law through our affiliation with Lifting Hands International, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (EIN: 81-1708977). Thank you!