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Food, medicine and essentials - from the self-settlers of the Zone to liberated villages of the Kyiv region

since 2009Helping the self-settlers of the Chornobyl ZoneBy the rules, nothing may be grown in the Zone and visitors may not even wear open clothing. Yet here, among the forests, lived ordinary elderly villagers. This is where our volunteer story began.Read more
May 9, 2012Food parcels for the self-settlers of Illintsi and KupuvateWe were driving into the Zone on our own business and turned off to see the self-settlers. With food parcels, a notebook and time to talk.Read more
June - July 2012Helping the self-settlers of Paryshiv: food and garden workThat summer we went to Paryshiv every month. We dug gardens together with tourists, and once our hosts treated us to blueberries. We measured them with a dosimeter.Read more
August 5, 2012, ParyshivA refrigerator and a mobile phone for a self-settler from ParyshivHanna, a self-settler, never believed she would have a refrigerator of her own. And the mobile phone we brought along with it rang many times afterwards.Read more
August 25-26, 2012Winter boots for a self-settler and rescuing animals in PrypiatWe were taking warm boots to a self-settler. We came back with two rescues: a dog from an abandoned apartment block and a falcon from the Prypiat hospital.Read more
September 22-23, 2012, ParyshivA TV for a self-settler from ParyshivFor someone living alone in a nearly empty village, a TV means voices in the house. But Hanna was not happy about the channels.Read more
February 2013Visiting the only residents of the 10-kilometer zoneClosest to the plant, in the most contaminated part of the Zone, lived two people. A large farm, livestock, a boat on the Prypiat - and no wish to leave.Read more
March - October 2013Regular trips to the self-settlers in 2013In 2013 trips to the self-settlers became a habit. We already knew who had asked for what last time and who would be waiting for us at the gate.Read more
May 1, 2014Helping the last resident of ZalissiaThousands of people once lived in Zalissia. Now there was one teacher with roses in her garden, who hitchhiked and could fight off a pack of raccoon dogs.Read more
2018 - 2023Supporting self-settlers and villages around the ZoneValentyna Borysivna never traveled in her life. But she says she has seen the whole world: it came to her in Chornobyl.Read more
April 2020Helping firefighters and victims of the 2020 fires in the ZoneThe fires reached Prypiat. Firefighters fought them in the same old ZIL trucks seen in every photo from 1986, and without maps of the area. "We're like blind people here," they said.Read more
2020Chornobyl Food and help for the dogs of PrypiatTarzan the dog met every group at the Chornobyl-2 checkpoint, and tourists treated him to sandwiches. For the animals of the Zone such treats can be deadly. We found a way out.Read more
since November 11, 2020Helping Oleksandr Hlukhov, keeper of the Murashko Estate in KyivHe saved an entire block of landmarks in central Kyiv from demolition. Then, in the middle of a pandemic and the cold season, his gas and water were cut off. Since then Yaroslav has been bringing him gas.Read more
February - March 2022Helping the defense of Kyiv, evacuating families from Chernihiv, a run to SlavutychSleepless, running on adrenaline, we raced through empty Kyiv to a military unit. And suddenly the feeling was familiar: this is what an ordinary day in high season looked like.Read more
April 2022Humanitarian runs to Ivankiv and villages after liberationAn elderly man was afraid to call his son: he thought he had been killed. The son answered. Everyone was alive, and while the father was under occupation, a grandson had been born.Read more
May - October 2022Helping the Kharkiv region and clearing rubble in Moshchun and Horenka"He is as old as the war," Yaroslav captioned a photo of a boy with a wheelbarrow of bricks. No one had called him to clear the rubble in Moshchun. He came on his own.Read more
2022 - 2025Cooperation with Slavutych and a help center at the Dytiatky checkpointThe people of Slavutych gave us tableware from the ChNPP canteens - plates and glasses with the plant's logo. So that the money raised would buy equipment for their soldiers.Read more
December 5, 2022An award from the Kyiv Regional State Administration for Volunteer DayWe finished the first year of the full-scale war with thanks from the Kyiv region.Read more
since early 2025Kateryna Aslamova in the Red Cross Rapid Response TeamA destroyed building on the day of a strike is a workplace for emergency services, not a backdrop for photos. Kateryna knows this firsthand.Read more
March 14, 2025A day in Kyiv for the defenders of the ChNPP and families of prisoners of warNo budget, no hall, no orchestra - only people we could call. That morning the Lavra bell rang over Kyiv. A defender of the ChNPP was ringing it.Read more

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