Fundraising

During this Christmas season, please spare some thoughts about those who might be a bit less fortunate. Ukraine Charity has been dedicated to helping children in Ukraine since its inception and we have several projects, such as helping family-type
orphanages, which are waiting to be funded. We assure you that every little helps
and is appreciated. You can donate online via http://www.justgiving.com/rizdvo-2012.

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4th annual Ivana Kupala fundraising party was held on 16th June at 33 Portland Place, http://www.33portlandplace.com which is famous for filming of, amongst others, the Oscar-winning “King’s Speech”. The programme, themed around a traditional Ukrainian summer festival, included tasting of exclusive Ukrainian wines, delicious Ukrainian food and canapés made by a celebrity chef, a raffle and a charity auction, music and entertainment. Ukraine Charity supported Lifeline http://www.lifelinegb.org which has for 10 years provided treatment and care for Ukrainian children with cancer without which they would have had little chance of survival. Please click here to see some pictures from the event and the shot media release.

Ukraine Charity is grateful to Antoine who ran London Marathon on Sunday 17th April 2011. Please support Antoine’s initiative via http://www.justgiving.com/Antoine-Pesenti1 In Antoine’s words: “I am very glad to be able to donate to Ukraine Charity this year, as my wife comes from Ukraine. I love the country, love travelling it and love its people. I am fully supportive of the work Ukraine Charity does. It is sad to hear of harrowing stories of orphans’ exploitation and abuse in Ukraine. It is consoling to know there are Ukrainians who genuinely care and support them. In particular, I would like to support the charity projects of family-type home for orphans. I think it is one of the most effective ways to make a huge difference to the lives of those kids. It’s not about giving them expensive toys, nice clothes or all mod cons, though these are nice to have too. It is about giving them home: giving them an adult with whom they can build a relationship. That’s what family-type home does. It’s great we can support people who decided to take on such a role. And support those in Ukraine who supports and trains them.”

Ukraine Charity is very grateful to Christina Dmytryk for her fundraising initiative. Christina comes from Ternopil, Ukraine. When she moved to London as a teenager eleven years ago she was fortunate enough to study voice and piano at Royal Academy of Music, which helped her to become a Rock Choir leader.The Rock Choiris the largest and most popular contemporary choir in the UK. It continuously supports local and national charities through performances and events.This year Christina and her team dedicated their first concert of 2011 to Ukraine Charity to raise money for orphans in Ukraine. The amount raised exceeded £1,700! The funds raised went towards the creation of information-resource centre for orphaned teenagers in Ternopil, to help equip the teenagers with necessary knowledge and social skills to integrate into the society.The event took place on Monday, 11th April at St Cyprian’s Church, Glentworth St, London, NW1 6AX. If you would like to support this charitable project please donate via http://www.justgiving.com/christina4ukrainecharity
Click here to see pictures from the event

During this festive Christmas season many of us are thinking of giving to the less fortunate. The money fundraised by our Charity at this time will be used in full on charitable projects for children-orphans in Ukraine in 2011. You can donate online by visiting Merry Christmas kids using secure service of justgiving.com/rizdvo-2010.

Ukraine Charity is grateful to the famous Ukrainian chef Mr Igor Stassiouk who has kindly proposed to donate over 20% of the proceeds from his new book “Ukrainian Christmas Feast”. You can order a copy of the book priced at £4.50 by contacting Igor via igorstassiouk@gmail.comand £1 will be donated to the Ukraine Charity.Click here to view some contents of the book

Ukraine Charity is very grateful to Victoria Volkova, a young professional lawyer, who together with her friends organised a networking event to support education and development of children with disabilities and orphans in Ukraine through providing them with English language study materials and computers.Speed Networking took place on November 10th at the Ukrainian Institute (79, Holland Park, London, W11 3SW). The event presented a great opportunity for young professionals working in the financial, legal, private equity and other sectors focusing on the CEE/CIS emerging markets and their willing colleagues to meet each other and start building business and social networks.Guests were treated to a night of networking, featuring a presentation by Andy Lopata, one of the Europe’s top authors and professional speakers in the field of networking strategy, as well to an exhibition of drawings by children from “The Special Child” centre. All proceeds went to the project.If you were unable to attend but would like to support the project you may also make a donation via http://www.justgiving.com/victoria-volkova

On 30 October, Tania Hordiyevych has done 108 sun salutations at the Yogathon in London. She has never done as many before so it was not be easy! Your donations helped her in doing the “Downward Dog”, “Cobra” and “The Corpse” amongst other positions!We encourage everyone to visit Igor’s fundraising page for more details: http://www.justgiving.com/tania-yogathon-uc.

Almost a year after the successful completion of Kostyantyn Syvokhin’s Kilimanjaro charity project (see August 2009), he conquered Elbrus, the highest mountain in Europe, in order to raise money to purchase cancer treatment equipment for Zhytomyr Children’s Hospital in Ukraine. He raised over £6,000!Please click here to see a short summary on prime time news by 1+1 channel and video footage of the climb.We encourage everyone to visit Igor’s fundraising page for more details: http://www.justgiving.com/Konstantin-elbrus.

Ukraine Charity hosted on 24th June 2010 its annual thematic Ivana Kupala fundraising party. The proceeds will be used to support several specific projects including a purchase of medical equipment for cancer patients at a childrens’ hospital in Zhytomyr, and supporting a family-type orphanage of 12 children in Kherson.The programme included champagne reception and canapés, Ukrainian cuisine from professional chef Igor Stassiouk followed by traditional Ukrainian spirits, charity auction and a thematic party.
The party was hosted  at Beach Blanket Babylon in Notting Hill http://www.beachblanket.co.uk and was attended by over 100 guests who contributed to charitable causes via http://www.justgiving.com/IK2010.Please click here to see some pictures from the event

Igor Makar is a Ternopil native working in London. He raised £2,000 for Ukraine Charity in order to support a developmental program for Ukrainian children from families affected by alcohol abuse and provision of survival kits (kitchen utensils, alarm clocks, towels, hygienic items, etc) to Ukrainian students leaving orphanages and moving into university dormitories.We encourage everyone to visit Igor’s fundraising page for more details http://www.justgiving.com/Igor-Makar

Brent is an Australian living in London. He was participating in the Virgin London Marathon 2010, which took place on the 25th April 2010, in order to raise funds for Ukrainian kids to enable more Ukrainian orphans have a chance to experience a childhood and a family atmosphere.We encourage everyone to visit Brent’s fundraising page to see more details about the project and support it via http://www.justgiving.com/Brent-Connell.

Liliya Rogova, the Director of ArteLia, a contemporary art dealer specialising in Ukrainian art, has initiated “The art for Orphans Project”..The project has been created to help Ukrainian orphans learn about art in a fun and engaging way, with the help of renowned Ukrainian artists assisting them in practising painting techniques. Through 10-sessions in each orphanage in the city of Kirovograd and its region the team of artists and art teachers will help children open up through creative expression, teach the orphans how to see the beauty in everyday life and find creative solutions in various situations.ArteLia will donate 10% of all proceeds from the sale of its works at a series of art fairs to fund the project.Ukraine Charity would like to thank Liliya for this initiative and encourages everyone to support this project via justgiving.com

On November 22, four French guys David Le Broussois, Lionel Durix, Laurent Barneoud and Gilles Schlutig have started a transatlantic sailing boat race ARC 2009from Grand Canaria to St. Lucia. During this challenging project (18 days of sailing) the team has fundraised £4,300 to support family-run orphanages in Ukraine.Ukraine Charity would like to express our utmost gratitude to David and his team for taking on this admirable initiative. In fact, this is the first team initiative, where the fundraising effort was led by non-Ukrainians. .We encourage everyone to visit David’s fundraising page to see more details about the project and support it via justgiving.com/David-Le-Broussois

Ukraine Charity is pleased to congratulate Ganna Motrych with successful completion of Adidas Women’s 5km challenge run. This is an excellent example of the proactive young lady who with the help of Ukraine Charity’s partners at http://www.detdom.info identified a charitable project for orphans in her home-town Kharkiv and is fundraising £2,000. Ganna’s justgiving page will be valid for some time and you are welcome to contribute to this project.

Our fellow Ukrainian professional Kostyantyn Syvokhin has climbed Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain (5,895m) and fundraised over £3,600 to purchase 60 beds for an orphanage in Kryvyy Rih. Please click here to see some pictures from the climb and a short summaryon prime time news by Inter channel.This is an admirable achievement and Ukraine Charity would like to thank Kostya and encourage you to contribute to his project via justgiving.com/konstantin

Ukraine Charity hosted its 2nd Annual Ivana Kupala Eve fundraiser on July 2, 2009. The event was attended by over 80 guests. Held at central London’s Divo restaurant, the evening was sponsored by Ukraine International Airlines and Sayenko Kharenko Law Firm, and featured a live auction as well as special guest performance by Ukrainian pop-star Katya Chilly. £3,000 of the proceeds will be used to renovating Verhnyodnipryanskyy orhanage. Please click here to see some pictures from the event.

During this festive Christmas season many of us are thinking of giving to the less fortunate. The money fundraised by our Charity at this time will be used in full on charitable projects for children-orphans in Ukraine in 2009. You can donate online click -> Merry Christmas kids! using secure service of justgiving.com Alternatively you can use online banking: Sort-code: 400244, Account number: 51837605

Ukraine Charity is thankful to Mrs Anne Oakshott who has kindly offered to hold an auction in aid of our Charity. The auction will feature new contemporarily works by Vladimir Piven, an acclaimed Ukrainian artist. The Champaign reception followed by the art auction will take place on Friday, December 5th 2008. The organisers expect approximately 120 attendees. Click here for the information leaflets about the event and the Ukraine Charity.

On October 26, Andre Samson, a Ukrainian-Brit, successfully completed the Birmingham Half-Marathon and fundraisedalmost £6,000 GBP for the Ukraine Charity.Andre, in his own words: “My experience of the Birmingham half-marathon was – I loved every minute of it. It was a great day out. Yarkiy Deny! I got involved with it because I love to run long distances and it was always my dream to give something back to my HomeLand, UKRAINA. Davay Davay!”Ukraine Charity thanks Andre for both his generous donation and his commitment to bettering the lives of young people in Ukraine.

Mariana Baldwin, a Swede living in the UK, ran the Berlin Marathon on 28th September and fundraised for the Ukraine Charity.
Deciding to fundraise for UC, she says, was not a difficult decision. Ever since her two trips to Ukraine in 1998 with a humanitarian aid organisation, the country, Mariana says, has been close to her heart. Visiting an orphanage and hospitals in and around Kyiv made a deep impression on her, and she recalls fondly all the kind people she met.We thank Mariana for choosing Ukraine Charity as the beneficiary of her fundraising campaign, which raised over £700.

Ukraine Charity hosted a fundraising dinner with a traditional Ivana Kupala theme to support funding of the annual Help Us Help the Children (HUHTC) summer camp held in July 2008 for three weeks in Vorokhta, situated in Western Ukraine’s Carpathian Mountains. Please find attached a press release and some pictures from the event. The camp’s 500 orphans come from across the country and learn valuable life-skills like First Aid, computers and team-building. They make new friendships, participate in Ukrainian traditions, and are encouraged to speak in Ukrainian only, as some of the campers come from Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine. A highlight of the camp includes the annual hike to the summit of Mount Hoverla, Ukraine’s highest peak.
Ukraine Charity thanks the Chopivsky Family Foundation for its financial support!

Ukraine Charity is grateful to its supporter Taras Chaban who sucessfully completed 42km of the London Flora Marathonon Sunday, 13 April 2008, helping fundraise over £5,600.Taras is a co-founder and director of the Ukrainian British City Club and a prominent member of the Ukrainian community in the UK. We would like to encourage you to support this initiative by visiting Taras’s fundraising page and donating via secure service of justgiving.com click -> here

During this festive Christmas season many of us are thinking of giving to the less fortunate. The money fundraised by our Charity at this time will be used in full on charitable projects for children-orphans in Ukraine in 2008. You can donate online by visiting Merry Christmas kids using secure service of http://www.justgiving.com

One of the co-founders and trustees of Ukraine Charity, Ihor Okhrimenko completed the New York City Marathon on Sunday, 4 November 2007, and helped fundraiseover £6,500 to finance refurbishment of the halls of residence of the Communal Orphanage No.2 in Lviv, Ukraine.The New York City Marathon its 37,800 runners is the largest marathon race in the world where a lot of professional athletes and people with different backgrounds and ambitions commit to a 42 km race as well as fundraise for charitable causes.