The stoves will provide heating and a cooking surface for people trapped in their basements and bomb shelters.
This Christmas, please consider sponsoring one wood-burning stove for one family in Ukraine. Perhaps it will be the most important gift you can give to a family this holiday season.
Ukrainian soldiers deliver wood-burning stoves for heating and cooking to people without power.
It is estimated that 800,000 families will face freezing temperatures without heating this winter. On the frontlines, fathers and sons are fighting for their families, wives, children, and their motherland. We can help keep their loved ones warm and alive with the opportunity to cook food as well. Your help is vital to the survival of thousands of families.
The stoves are locally built. Purchasing locally will also provide employment in these communities.
Together we can help
GCMM has in addition to monetary assistance, sent food, clothing, hygiene and medical supplies to Ukraine.
We supported on-site relief personnel who have integral roles in the evacuations and logistics. Also, providing the teams with supplies and supporting their spiritual well-being overall. As the war progresses, their logistical expertise continues to be critical in evaluating where humanitarian aid is needed most, with the changing situations daily. Our experienced members organize the transportation, storage and distribution of aid through logistic centres in Ukraine.
Food and healthcare supplies
We delivered food, wheelchairs, hygiene and dressing supplies to the TERNOPIL warehouse and logistics centre in western Ukraine. From there, the aid is transported to eastern Ukraine, to the Zaporizhzhia centre and villages located in the direction of Mariupol. Also, to the region between Kyiv and Belarus.
More than 8 million people have had to flee the war from east to western Ukraine. As a result, refugees arriving in the west have put stress on the health care services there. Aid arriving from Finland to Ukraine supports the local healthcare in the country, says Hannu Haukka, of GCMM and the lead for Ukrainian emergency aid services from Finland.
FOOD AID ARRIVED AT THE LOGISTICS CENTRE IN ZAPORIZHZHIA, SOUTHERN UKRAINE
A truckload of 20 tons of food aid arrived at the Zaporizhzhia city warehouse and logistics centre, substantially supported through GCMM’s Ukrainian emergency aid from Finland.
Aid delivered To date
GCMM’s Ukraine emergency aid has delivered crisis relief to Ukraine, including:
Hygiene products
More than 200,000 packages of food aid to frontline villages Thousands of servings of instant soup
Hospital beds Sleeping pads
Wood-burning stoves @ $100 per unit Generators and solar panels Tourniquets for dressing wounds Wheelchairs and crutches
Sleeping bags and blankets Wool blankets
On August 25th and October 12th, in cooperation with a hospital in Finland, we delivered approximately 16 tons of humanitarian aid to the Khmelnytskyi Children’s Hospital. The load included regular hospital beds, electrically operated hospital beds and intensive care unit monitoring equipment. We delivered aid to the hard-hit city hospital in Kryvyi Rih as well.
Medical aid to Ukraine
The need for humanitarian aid in Ukraine is great. People need healthcare services, medicine, clean water and shelter.
We have delivered wheelchairs, crutches and hospital supplies to our partners operating in Ukraine from Finland. We have also supplied soldiers with medical supplies, bandages and an ultrasound machine at one of the hospitals.
Financial support has made it possible to obtain critically needed medicine.
GCMM provides support to local aid workers in Ukraine and in its neighbouring countries. The staff of the Pilgrim orphanage serve in significant ways in terms of logistics and delivering aid to villages in need of help.
GCMM offers valuable support for the mental and spiritual well-being of refugees.
The destruction caused by the war is indescribable. The needs of families who have fled the war are immense. Help will be needed for years to come.
Donating to the GCMM Ukrainian Emergency Fund is the very best way to support the families of Ukraine.
Novoselovka village, Donetsk region. This village belongs to the logistic centres’ regular route and delivers food aid every other week.
More than 300 tons of FOOD AID have been delivered to the Donetsk region, including the towns of Slovyansk, Izyum and Lyman, and to villages in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.
