March 7
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Hurry we are trying to airship these to 10,000 soldiers in the Ukrainian Army by April 15th.
FOOD DRIVE END DATE: APRIL 15, 2024
February 18
After a very long journey to Ukraine, your donations have arrived and are being distributed!
January 4
Petro met today with Maryna garkava chief of staff to mayor of cherkasy to start to distribute donations to refugees.
December 28
December 15
Northern California donors get together to pack donations for our next ship and show their support for Ukraine.
December 1
After initially being disqualified by Customs who wanted every item in the shipment to be listed separately our donations were finally cleared to fly to Ukraine as humanitarian aid today. Fortunately, we didn’t have to list each item as with over 10,000 separate articles of clothing it would have been impossible.
December 1
Founding donors Pete & Joni have made another huge donation of warm clothes and blankets for our next shipment. Thank you for your efforts to help those in need in Ukraine.
November 26
Happy holidays from the Ukraine!
November 11
Hello donors and friends,
Your winter 23/24 donations are on the way to Ukraine!
Thanks to you, many Ukrainians will have a warmer more comfortable winter this year. Your clothing and bedding donations are on the way and your GoFundme dollars are paying for the long trip there.
Thank you All! The need is great. Please keep your dollars, clothing and bedding coming this way.
Sincerely, Douglas and David
Sustain Ukraine Together
October 20
This is what winter in Ukraine looks like. Thank you for your continued donations. Our winter shipment will take off soon. There is still time to include your donation.
October 27
Podcast #2 – Host Luke Colson interviews Sustained Ukraine Together co-founder David Kagel on how your Donations make a difference!
October 25
Podcast #1 – Popular podcast host and trauma specialist Luke Colson interviewed Petro & Olga and their family today about life in Ukraine today and their story of flite and return.
October 20
Packing day in our relief distribution center! The donations are going higher and higher
October 19
Rothko and Ivan are best friends. Ivan has returned to Cherkasky Ukraine but they stay in touch on Whatsapp weekly.
Ivan in Ukraine
Rothko in USA
October 18
We found another way to help Ukraine. Basic medications such as these are much needed. Please donate to Sustain Ukraine Together as the war, hardship and the winter continue.
October 13
A Big Thank You to Ilyce Dawes and the Volunteer League & Choral Music Troupers of SF Valley.
We collected the Third large donation from Illyce Dawes and her two charitable clubs today!
On top of all their other charitable endeavors, The Volunteer League and the Choral Music Troupers have collected almost 25 bags totalling 500 pounds of essential clothing and blankets to send to Ukraine. The Volunteer Leage of the San Fernando Valley was started 75 years ago to service needy school children from pre K -high school.
They also serve those in shelters supplying new shoes, toiletries, school uniforms, free clothes and more. Plus her friends at the Choral MusicTroupers also wanted to help Ukraine. They normally go to senior homes/retirement facilities performing entertaining shows.
We are so THANKFUL that Ilyce and these incredible philanthropic groups found time and resources to collect high quality donations to help the refugees in Ukraine!
October 11
Building our wall of donations for Ukrainian refugees. Please keep those donations coming!
October 4
Mike is packing boxes this week in Portland, Oregon for shipment to California and then to Ukraine. Our ship date from California to Ukraine is scheduled for November 1st, so please get your donations on the way!
September 28
Daily life in Ukraine. Taking shelter from missile attack.
September 27
Petro shared some thoughts today via Zoom on how difficult it is to maintain a daily routine and normal life.
He said that his family dreams every day about their previous life in the US, free of fear. But now it is a distant memory. The situation is very hard to live their lives day to day.
One hour ago he was in the grocery store and there were sirens warning people to find shelter. They must go to shelters for many hours each day. The problem is they don’t know if it is a real attack or not. So sometimes they don’t go into their basement and risk living their normal routines.
Today the sirens sounded at 1 p.m. in the middle of the day for 15 minutes only. Every day they don’t know how the day will develop. Russia uses hypersonic missiles most days. They are very strong. So everyone in Ukraine will take shelter as they don’t know the exact target in the country. They get a message via Whatsapp on their phone to take shelter. It is often a false alarm, as the Russians often send false alarms and feign an attack just to terrorize the people. To get them to go to basements and shelters just to disrupt their daily life patterns. It is just a campaign of psychological terror and then often becomes a real attack. They never know day to day.
September 26
While it is important to keep up with what is happening in Ukraine currently. Let’s also remember some of the good news that has come from the Ukraine during this long war.
Helpers of all kinds worked quickly to keep Ukrainians fed
When fleeing your country under the threat of a missile attack, you’re likely not going to pack the whole kitchen pantry in your backpack. For displaced Ukrainians, having access to food exactly where they are was pivotal in maintaining their health and safety.
Chef José Andrés and his nonprofit World Central Kitchen arrived almost immediately on the scene in Ukraine back in February 2022. Since then, his relief crew has provided over 200 million meals and the organization’s #ChefsForUkraine program has partnered with a large network of Ukraine’s restaurants to continue the good work.
September 20
We received sad news from our friends in Cherkasy this morning. The city Petro and Olga and their family live in was missle attacked by Russia last night. Cherkasy is home to a number of refugee centers and a number of people were killed in the attack. This is disturbing and so sad.
September 20
Los Angeles Blog update. Packing day today. Maria carefully folding donations
September 19
5 Star Cleaners on Hawthorne and Broadway streets in Portland Oregon generously donated about a 125 pounds of unclaimed dry cleaning to Sustain Ukraine Together.
September 18
Our good friend Carl in Lake Geneva Illinois sent 7 boxes to add to our growing collections.
September 17
They donated 10 large Sherpa blankets.
September 15
I met Cassie T today. She had been sending clothes and diapers to Ukraine for a while. She spent $1000 dollars of her own money to send 8 large boxes via Meest Air to a relief agency there. We agreed to join forces and she will be gathering donations from her family and friends for our November 1 shipment. She is going to zoom with Petro on 9/21 to learn more about how she can help.
September 13
Randi G and I talked to Petro today on Zoom. We weren’t clear why he wanted blankets. He explained that the electrical grid and home gas line was blown away by the Russians. There was no way to heat the homes anywhere in Ukraine. Consequently, all Ukrainians living above or below ground in bunkers during missile attacks were freezing cold and blankets to keep them warm are incredibly expensive and in short supply and cost $50 dollars on the black market. That is why they constantly ask for blanket donations!.