Our Foundation received humanitarian aid from Philips Ukraine for families with newborns. This enabled us to distribute breast pumps, sippy cups, infant bottles, and Philips Avent pacifiers in Kharkivska, Poltavska, Ternopilska, and Rivnenska oblasts. Internally displaced persons and other vulnerable social groups were offered assistance.
The Zdolbuniv Central City Hospital and the following NGOs helped us organize the distribution of the kits: All-Ukrainian Union of Immigrents, Next Breed 21, Fine Unites, Will, Victory, Unification of Ukraine.
For example, the Next Breed 21 organization’s team helped distribute the kits in Kharkivska Oblast. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, they have been helping internally displaced persons who arrived in the Novovodolazka community, located 50 kilometers from Kharkiv inland. In addition to 25,000 residents, the community has welcomed 12,500 more internally displaced persons.
“Fortunately, people keep having children, but there are many internally displaced persons and other vulnerable people who really need our support. We are glad that we were able to help the community. When receiving the kits, people were most excited about the bottles for feeding children from six months old: these were the first to deplete. Everyone noticed that the kits are very high quality and expensive. “The breast pumps were also useful for young families,” says Mariya Lyhanenko, head of the Next Breed 21 NGO. “We have been cooperating with the Foundation for a long time, this is not the first time we have worked together, so we are very grateful to them for helping our community.”
