Metinvest Group continues to be the main source of assistance for the population residing behind enemy lines, even as the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to struggle for Ukrainian cities and towns. More than 282,000 Ukrainians have already benefited from the Saving Lives programme.
Saving Lives, a project started by Metinvest in collaboration with the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation at the start of the conflict, has concentrated on giving people food packages and hygiene kits as well as on giving hospitals supplies of drugs, consumables, and equipment. More than 282,000 Ukrainians have benefited from the project since the start of the war.
Basic goods delivered all the time
Since September, specific groups of Metinvest employees—including those who work for the company and their families, long-serving retirees, etc.—have had access to food packages delivered as part of humanitarian aid. In total, 80,000 of these people received aid from the business. Twenty Metinvest firms, including facilities in Zaporizhia, Kryvyi Rih, Kamianske, Pokrovsk, Dnipro, and Kyiv, have distribution centers set up. More than 102,000 food packages have been created by the company, of which 40,000 will be sent to Kryvyi Rih distribution centers.
The families of Metinvest’s conscripted workers, retired employees, and welfare beneficiaries, including single moms, families with several children, and persons with disabilities, had already received food parcels from Metinvest.
Assistance
3,882 tonnes of life-saving supplies from Poland have been delivered to Ukrainian distribution centers: 1,786 tonnes each to Zaporizhzhia, Kryvyi Rih, Kamianske, and Dnipro.
Additionally, Saving Lives keeps delivering food aid to front-line areas and freed areas. In particular, Metinvest helps those who have no choice but to live in the Avdiivka neighborhood amid frequent shelling without access to electricity, water, gas, or heating by providing them with support. Employees of the Avdiivka Coke Plant deliver kits with long-term storage supplies to these individuals immediately at their shelters.
The program also focuses on assisting those living in the shelters run by Metinvest that are situated in the regions where the business is active.
The organization provides the shelters with hygiene kits, food packages, and food ingredients for preparing meals. In particular, 800 kg of food supplies, including pasta, desserts, cereals, baby formula, flour, etc., were recently delivered to three shelters in Zaporizhia as part of another assistance convoy.
Doctors are also supported
Additionally, the Saving Lives project gives Ukrainian physicians considerable support by delivering frequent delivery of pharmaceuticals, consumables, and state-of-the-art equipment to designated hospitals in Kryvyi Rih, Zaporizhia, and Kamianske.
The quality of care given to patients would be improved, for instance, by the expert class anaesthesia and respiratory device that was given to Kryvyi Rih City Clinical Hospital and the mobile digital X-ray and universal electrosurgical machine that were given to Kamianske Emergency Hospital. The project has already given Ukrainian hospitals assistance totaling €240,000.
Assistance in numbers
37 Ukrainian towns receive humanitarian supply convoys from the Saving Lives project.
The effort is expanding the scope and geographic reach of help thanks to worldwide sponsorship. About 100 donor companies from all over the world have joined the project thus far, including those from Germany, Italy, Poland, the Netherlands, Spain, the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Greece, the United Arab Emirates, and other nations.
The project recently teamed with the ALDI chain. Champions League clubs have been urged to support the campaign by Saving Lives Ambassador Darijo Srna in order to attract even more contributors. Employees of Metinvest have also contributed to the Do it Together charity, joining the humanitarian endeavor.
