Humanitarian aid 4/9/2024 Read 4 min

Rinat Akhmetov Foundation Continues to Provide Humanitarian Aid to IDPs

"Green Center Metinvest Zaporizhzhia" continues to issue food packages.

In Zaporizhzhia, the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation continues to provide humanitarian aid to Ukrainians who were forced to leave their homes due to active hostilities. Recently, "Green Center Metinvest Zaporizhzhia" has issued food packages to residents of the Malobilozerska community currently residing in Zaporizhzhia.

"Since the beginning of the year, we have distributed nearly two thousand food packages З and, overall, since the beginning of the full-scale war, we have issued 52 thousand such packages to IDPs who have found a new home in Zaporizhzhia. And we continue to help people", said Yarovslav HROSHEV, a manager of the public association "Green Centre Metinvest Zaporizhzhia".

During 2023, the Foundation provided assistance to 250 families of the Malobilozerska community currently residing in Zaporizhzhia. Among them was Natalia, an internally displaced person from the village of Mala Bilozerka. She says that the packages contain necessities.

"This is not the first time I have received assistance from the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation. Previously, they distributed New Year's gifts for the children, and now we are receiving a food package. It contains everything we love and eat very often – flour, pasta, delicious stewed meat, beans, pates, and sweet treats. In addition, there are things that are always necessary in the kitchen, such as sunflower oil, sugar and salt. This will help a great deal," says Natalia.

The Rinat Akhmetov Foundation has been supporting Ukrainians since the first days of the war. Since 2014 alone, the charity has distributed more than 13 million humanitarian kits.

As a reminder, over the 24 months of the full-scale invasion, SCM's businesses, the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation and the Football Club "Shakhtar" have already allocated over UAH 7.6 billion (upwards of $223 million) to assist the country, the military and civilians.