The forPEACE Ukraine Relief Project provides the essential link between generous foreign aid and the speed and nuanced insight of local Ukrainian networks. We truly work with Ukrainians and for them. They know what is needed, where it is needed, and how to get it there in record timing.
One of forPEACE’s primary goals is sustainable in-country solutions for problems.
Evacuation
Regional Defenders
Water Filter Project
IDP Employment
Promote Ukranian Businesses
Generators
Medical Projects
forPEACE’s medical goal in Ukraine is to provide medical care to the multitude of casualties and address the in country gap in organised medical structure and capacity to treat war related trauma.
Frontline Medic Support
We ensure people access to medical clinics, trauma care units the provided relief preemptively reduces the loss of life.
1,600
individual doses of ciprofloxacin, flixotide, levothyroxine, and paracetamol
200
sterilised disposables such as antimicrobial dressings and surgical drapes
500
specialised first aid kits with vital coagulators, tourniquets, decompression needles, and puncture seals
8
medical evacuation vehicles
250
evacuated wounded individuals from frontline areas
5
hospitals equipped with necessary medical and cleaning supplies
1
ultrasound machine for a refugee medical center in Bulgaria
Trauma Surgery Program
Working patient to patient integrated fully with a local medical surgical departments, forPEACE’s medical goal in to ensure that Ukraine’s heroes have a chance at a normal life. Working patient
Dr. Ellwanger Explaining how repair could be accomplished for a patient that had been seeking treatment for three months from a bone defect resulting from war trauma. The surgery took place shortly after.
Current Situation
Too many patients are falling through the system and not getting appropriate long term reconstruction of traumatic wounds. At frontline hospitals in Ukraine where Dr. Ellwanger operates he daily sees two to three major blast injuries to the face. At this time the wounded are receiving simple sutures to open wounds with no underlying treatment of the destroyed bone or repair of facial structures.
What We Are Doing About It
Improve the capacity of trauma hospitals to expand their patient care protocols and standards to include comprehensive patient care.
This patient had a ballistic injury from a bullet entering from the back of the ear and out of his nose, resulting in left maxilla fracturing into the airway. Here Dr. Ellwanger trains in a frontline hospital on how to reposition the left maxilla to its proper location with an open reduction and surgical fixation with titanium hardware to allow for proper function again.
We are fundraising for the equipment so that Dr. Ellwanger can develop through hands-on training and live operations the capacity of these stabilisation centers and their in-country resident surgeons to accomplish facial reconstructions of underlying injuries. We aim to empower more facial trauma departments in Ukraine to have the capacity and skill to provide comprehensive patient treatment.
The heroic medical evacuation flying individual patients to foreign countries is wonderful for the one but relying on evacuations comes at significant loss for Ukraine’s in-country ability to care for their wounded. Such expertise needs to be provided and developed in-country.
ENDORSEMENTS & MEDIA COVERAGE
Consul General of Ukraine in San Francisco
Dmytro Kushneruk
“As the Consul General of Ukraine in San Francisco I fully endorse forPEACE. They are truly unique, one of the few international organizations that is on the ground directly supporting frontline communities and defenders. They work collaboratively with Ukrainians to provide relief by building long-term social and physical infrastructure. Their work continues to be an integral part of Ukraine’s fight for freedom.”
The Armed Forces of Ukraine
“The command and the entire personnel of the [redacted] military unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine express their sincerest gratitude for your support and charitable contribution [...] We highly appreciate your contribution—it objectively and significantly strengthens the combat potential of our military unit as a whole, increases its fighting spirit, and supports the unity of AFU servicemen and the people of Ukraine. Thanks to your support every serviceman understands that he is supported by the entire Ukrainian people, is given faith in the justice and the happy future of our country, and confirms that victory will be ours.”
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— Togzhan Kassenova (@tkassenova) May 13, 2022
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— Oxana Shevel 🇺🇦👊🚜🌻 (@OxanaShevel) May 29, 2022
Ukraine Team
