The Vadym Stolar Foundation carried out a humanitarian mission in western Ukraine to help IDPs

From the first days of the full-scale war, the Vadym Stolar Charitable Foundation identified assistance to forcibly displaced persons as one of its priorities. Unfortunately, the Russian invasion forced millions of Ukrainians to leave their homes, so this area of the Foundation’s work is in great demand. Many humanitarian missions have already been carried out by volunteers in various regions of the country, and the other day they went to the west of Ukraine, where there are the most migrants. Details about the trip, the activities of volunteers, feedback from IDPs about their situation and help from benefactors are in our material:https://youtu.be/YhMn4EbK2rw

Vadym Stolar spoke about the urgency of helping displaced people

CF founder Vadym Stolar and his team periodically organize humanitarian missions of the Foundation throughout Ukraine. In particular, only in recent months, volunteers have traveled with aid to the liberated Kherson, to the front-line Donetsk region, and to Kharkiv. The philanthropist explained why he considers the work of the Foundation founded by him, aimed at supporting displaced persons, to be urgent and important.

"There are about 5 million forced migrants in Ukraine today. These people were forced to leave their homes in the war zone, and many have nowhere to return to because their homes have been destroyed. IDPs are really struggling today, they need help. And they also need to understand that we know their problems and trying to solve them.That is why trips to the regions, when parliamentarians and volunteers communicate with people, give them help, are important. And I thank all the representatives of the deputy group "Restoration of Ukraine" and the Charitable Foundation, who carried out a humanitarian mission in the west of Ukraine," Vadym Stolar emphasized.

The Vadym Stolar Foundation reported on the mission to the western regions

This time, volunteers brought humanitarian aid to Rivne, where there are many displaced people from Donetsk region and Luhansk region, and to Lviv region, namely to shelters where people from Donbas, Kharkiv, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions live. They also visited the city of Perechyn in Transcarpathia.

"Together with the colleagues of the "Restoration of Ukraine" group and the Vadym Stolar Charitable Foundation, we set out on a humanitarian mission. It covered three cities - Rivne, Lviv and Perechyn. We talked, brought everything necessary. These are grocery kits, as well as what people who live here have requested to make their stay better. We brought them the tennis tables they ordered. I hope that more than one champion will grow up here," said Foundation volunteer Nataliya Prykhodko.

Andriy Feshchenko, director of the Vadym Stolar Foundation, noted that there are more than 54,000 displaced people in Rivne, mostly from Luhansk region. People feel a lack of basic needs: food, hygiene products. And the Foundation records people's problems, providing them with the necessary assistance.

In her turn, Nataliya Prykhodko also spoke about the Lviv shelter and modular town for IDPs, which were organized by philanthropists and the city government. According to the volunteer, the Vadym Stolar Foundation decided to support internally displaced persons, communicate and help. After all, you can help as efficiently as possible only when you have direct contact with those who need help.

The Foundation completed its humanitarian mission in the city of Perechyn in Transcarpathia, where a relocated business is actively starting work. Volunteers brought help - washing machines - to one of the companies that moved from Kramatorsk. They will be installed in houses for IDPs that are being actively built on the basis of one of the companies.

"Of course, when we started all this, there were a lot of unresolved issues. We were trying to figure out how to set up the business and move a large amount of equipment, several thousand tons of metal products. But the most important thing for us is to transport people. Because any workshops we can build are just metal. If we don't fill it with people, everything will remain as it is," said the director of the relocated company, Vladyslav Yaremenko.

The displaced people are grateful to Vadym Stolar and his Foundation for their help

During the meetings, the displaced people talked about how they were forced to leave their homes because of the war and how they found shelter in the west of Ukraine.

"Buchansky district, we came under fire. Bombs from airplanes. We took our two daughters and left for Rivne. We had to flee from Russian aggression for the second time, because in 2014, my family and I left our native Golubivka in the Luhansk region. We have been living in Rivne for over a year, but it is difficult to find a job and feel at home here. If there is nowhere to return to, and I have health problems, then I would have stayed here. And if nothing awaits me here, there is no way out, then I will look for something again somewhere. You wander around like you don't have your own corner," Tatyana, a displaced person, shared her experiences.

However, even in spite of the difficulties, the forced migrants do not lose their optimism and faith in the best.

"We are on our way to win. To make people feel comfortable here. And so that they have hope that everything will be fine," says Daryna.

At the end of all meetings with IDPs, the displaced thanked the Vadym Stolar Foundation and its founder for not forgetting their problems and difficulties, bringing help and trying to comfort them in personal communication.

In turn, the founder of the Foundation himself emphasized that the active work of his team to support IDPs will continue.

"We will help the forced migrants until the victory of Ukraine and after it, when a great job of rebuilding the country will wait for us!" - stated Vadym Stolar.