This project remains active as of 2023. See our donate page for ways to help in the current crisis.
Heart2Heart: Humanitarian Aid to most vulnerable Ukrainians
The goal of this project is to help and to support the most vulnerable Ukrainians in need that cannot get help the other way. We collect, sort, and deliver donations to volunteers in Ukraine, who pass them hand-to-hand, heart-to-heart, and family-to-family. Our project helps families in need, people with disabilities, children of fallen ATO soldiers, and children in boarding schools, orphanages, and hospitals. We gather clothes, food, and medication and deliver it to most vulnerable people across Ukraine, not including temporarily occupied territories of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine.
Mission: Love & Solidarity
Our humanitarian mission is one of love and solidarity with our fellow Ukrainians. It is a volunteer-driven, the non-profit mission that depends on your and our willingness to help. We are located in the San Francisco Bay Area, where we gather, sort, and then deliver care packages to the delivery company “MEEST” (Sacramento) for their final transportation to Ukraine. We also courier donations with people that are flying to Ukraine from San Francisco and other cities of Bay Area, that are willing to help Ukrainians in need. While some people are able to take a few care packages with them, others take full bags – everybody does what they can.
2019 Update
Dear Nova Ukraine Supporters,
We have continued our annual tradition, and our most recent fundraising campaign in 2019 was focused on collecting and shipping New Year and Christmas presents to the underprivileged kids of Ukraine.
In 2019, similar to 2018, we have shipped over 600 pounds of joy to the kids of many Ukrainian regions. Our Santa Claus visited Kyiv, Kharkiv, Poltava, Odesa, Donetsk, Luhansk, Lviv oblasts, as well as Zakarpattia and Volyn. This was just one of the few campaigns we ran.
In 2019 combined, we sent over 55,000 pounds of humanitarian aid, totaling $54,414.
The new year began with two initiatives. The first one, already traditional, is the collection of dresses, suits, shoes, and accessories for graduation evenings for frontline boarding schools. The second initiative is the collection of a “courage box” for pediatric oncology departments in four cities of Ukraine, which are under our committed care.
If you’d like to contribute to our efforts of Nova Ukraine and Heart2Heart project, in particular, you can volunteer your time and support our efforts with donations.
2018 Update
Dear Friends,
Nova Ukraine would like to update the community about our accomplishments for the last couple of months of 2018. With the efforts of multiple volunteers, we shipped over 600 pounds of Christmas and New Year presents to Ukraine. We sent our holiday cheer to children in across Ukraine: Kyiv, Kharkiv, Poltava, Odesa, Lviv, Zakarpattia, Volyn oblasts as well as Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts (not including temporarily occupied areas). We would like to thank everybody who helped us to collect, buy, transport, ship and donate the presents to help us bring joy to the most vulnerable children in Ukraine. We collected a total of $1,465 for Christmas and New Year presents.
In 2018, we sent 80,000 pounds of humanitarian aid and spent a total of $41,455 for the project.
We continue our Heart2Heart project in 2019 with greater determination and enthusiasm than ever.
If you’d like to contribute to our efforts of Nova Ukraine and Heart2Heart project, in particular, you can volunteer your time and support our efforts with donations.
