In the photograph, the equipment is easy to count. A woman holds a foldable solar panel while a man stands beside a portable power station. Between them is a boxed single-burner electric cooktop. On the larger cardboard box below, a Hope For Ukraine label identifies...
A woman sits on a patterned sofa inside her home, holding a white Hope For Ukraine food bag in her lap. Her hands rest on the top of the bag as she looks toward the camera with a quiet smile. We do not know every part of her story. What we do know is that this food...
At 27 years old, Mark Zydga regularly makes a journey across Ukraine that few people could imagine. He climbs into a refrigerated van with fellow volunteers and travels toward eastern Ukraine. They are not carrying humanitarian supplies or evacuating civilians. They...
Before the full-scale war disrupted her life, Oksana led a quiet, fulfilling life in Nikopol, a city in the Dnipropetrovsk region. She had a place to call her own and spent her days serving her community as a dentist. But almost overnight, the safety of home gave way...
Much of my work for Hope For Ukraine takes place thousands of miles from the people and animals our programs support. I often learn what is happening through photographs and updates sent from Ukraine. When these images were shared with our team, I kept returning to...
When people ask why I work for an organization supporting Ukraine despite having no direct family ties to the country, my answer is simple: “You do not need to be part of a specific community to respect human rights and help people in need.” As a Peruvian-American...
