“Thanks to our foundation, the patients are returning to normal life”

Interview with one of the founders of the United Ukraine Appeal charity fund, Anatoly Kirievsky, about a rehabilitation centre in Ukraine.

Anatoly Kirievsky, founding member of The United Ukraine Appeal Photo credit: SBS Russian

Two years ago, four Australians - Alex Vinokur, Anatoly Kirievsky, Viktor German, and Vlad Belanovsky - teamed up to create the United Ukraine Appeal fund to help Ukrainians.

They had a dream - to create a rehabilitation centre in Kyiv to help people who lost their limbs during the war. Their dream has come true. Every day 70 new people are treated for free at their centre in the capital of Ukraine.

Photo credit: United Ukraine Appeal

The photo below shows the team of a rehabilitation center in Ukraine. Anatoly said that the centre also treated Australians who voluntarily went to fight for Ukraine and lost their limbs there.

Photo credit: United Ukraine Appeal

Over the past financial year, the foundation managed to collect 3 million Australian dollars to establish and maintain a rehabilitation centre (it's monthly costs are about 80 thousand Australian dollars), as well as purchase ambulances and necessary medicines for Ukraine.