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Report of the Forestcom NGO for the year of humanitarian activity
When war comes to your home, you can't just stand by. Everyone has to contribute to the Victory in one way or another. Our team chose the path of helping people. With the beginning of russia’s full-scale invasion at the end of the winter of 2022, in addition to the main activity of combating illegal logging, the NGO Forestcom began work to support people who suffered the most during the war, including displaced persons, people who found themselves in difficult life circumstances, disabled people, children, etc.
Partners of our initiatives have become educational institutions from Europe, in particular the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (Germany), the Agricultural University of Hugo Kołłątaj in Krakow (Poland), private individuals from England, the USA, France and Germany, (in particular, the team of Ole Schartmann and residents of the town of Пенкун), as well as Ukrainian partners - NGO "National Interest Advocacy Network "ANTS", the Lions Club and many others.
Initially, the activity was carried out with the private support of foreign partners. Then we began to implement our own projects. Thus, in 2022, with the support of the “United Voices in Action” and IREX programs we implemented the project "Ensuring urgent humanitarian needs of IDPs aged 30 and over". NGO Forestcom signed a memorandum of partnership with the London Euromaidan public organization, with which we have been closely cooperating for a year. A Memorandum of Cooperation was also signed with the regional Consultative and Coordination Center, which works under the Lviv Regional Military Administration and unites twenty public organizations that provide various types of humanitarian aid.
Fig. 1. From June 2022 to May 2023, we were able to provide assistance to almost 45,000 people affected by the war. The figure shows the distribution of assistance in percentages according to the indicated period of activity.
Fig. 2. The number of people who received humanitarian aid from June 2022 to May 2023 inclusive, in arithmetic progression.
In 2023, thanks to cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan, the NGO "National Interest Advocacy Network "ANTS", the Polish Center for international aid (PCPM) managed to implement a large humanitarian project "Local Humanitarian Initiatives: Delivery of Aid from Taiwan to Ukraine", thanks to which more than 34 thousand people received help.
Fig. 3. Yellow lines and dots mark the directions and settlements that received humanitarian aid as part of the project "Local humanitarian initiatives: delivery of aid from Taiwan to Ukraine" from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China (Taiwan).
Aid was delivered to more than 85 communities from 14 regions of Ukraine, including: Lviv, Cherkasy, Chernivtsi, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Luhansk, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Kharkiv, Zakarpattia, Rivne, Zhytomyr, Odesa, Volyn, Zaporizhia, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Luhansk, Kirovohrad and Poltava regions.
In addition to material assistance (food, hygiene products, medicines, clothes, etc.), we actively conduct ecological and educational excursions and forest therapy for people who need to improve their well-being, restore their emotional state, increase stress resistance, and care. care about their mental health.
Read more about our humanitarian projects:
- Local Humanitarian Response Initiatives: Taiwan relief supplies to Ukraine_LHRI_Taiwan
- Forest therapy or what are the benefits of an eco-therapy excursion?
- Ensuring the urgent humanitarian needs of IDPs over the age of 30 within the framework of the "Unity for Action" program
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