Aid to Ukraine, not yet a foundation at the time, came into being the day after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. It started as a group of friends who wanted to help. Since then, thanks in no small part to the tremendous support of Almeva, supplier of first aid and medical materials and Bas4Cars, The Dutch Land Rover specialist, we have delivered more than 250 vehicles, each carrying as many medical supplies as would fit. The photo above shows a first aid case we brought over in 2023, which can also be seen in a report made by Kysia Hekster for the Dutch public broadcaster NOS.

In 2024 we became a foundation with ANBI status (recognised Dutch public benefit organisation), and now, in 2026, we have launched our first fundraising campaign for a specific goal (Donate for first aid kits). We keep professionalising, keep growing and keep going for as long as we are needed.

In Ukraine we work together with foundations that provide humanitarian aid on the ground and distribute the medical supplies we bring. To people evacuating residents from areas at risk of occupation, for instance, or helping those whose homes have been destroyed. Wounded soldiers are sometimes helped with these supplies too: in the hospitals they are taken to and which use our goods, or at first aid posts in towns near the fighting. The Geneva Conventions say the same about wounded and sick members of the armed forces. Article 12 of the First Convention states that they must be respected, protected and cared for, without any adverse distinction based on sex, race, nationality, religion or political opinion. Only medical urgency may determine who is treated first. As an aid worker, you care for everyone.

For over four years now we have been providing humanitarian aid to Ukraine. We bring what is asked for, and the organisations we work with in Ukraine make sure it reaches the right place. We will keep doing so for as long as it is needed. That is our mission:

To provide direct, demand-driven and demonstrably deployed humanitarian aid in the fields we ourselves know well, during the war in Ukraine and in its reconstruction, through lasting and personal cooperation with local end users, organisations and initiatives.