Mrs. Svitlana, 72 · Ukraine
She raises her granddaughter alone, has arthritis and diabetes, and needs a cataract removal operation.
Needs ≈ $111 per month
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Beresnieva Larysa Yevhenivna
Fund helper, UkraineLooks after 20 people
Graduated from a mining and metallurgical institute. She has given many years to community work: she was secretary of the Public Self-Government Council, then led that organisation, and since 2003 she has headed a residents' self-organisation body in her district. She has two grown-up children. At the fund she is responsible for the people in her district: she knows each of them personally, checks their needs and accompanies the deliveries.
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Whom Larysa Yevhenivna visits in person
People whom Larysa Yevhenivna knows personally and visits every month.
Mrs. Svitlana, 75 · Ukraine
A widow; one son died in the war, the other is at the front; she has arthritis, heart problems, and poor eyesight and hearing.
Needs ≈ $111 per month
Mrs. Vira, 69 · Ukraine
She has Parkinson's disease and cancer, hardly leaves home, and her pension does not cover medicine.
Needs ≈ $111 per month
Mrs. Valentyna, 72 · Ukraine
She cares for a sick husband, and is herself disabled, with hypertension, diabetes and heart disease.
Needs ≈ $111 per month
Mrs. Tetiana, 76 · Ukraine
76 years old, with arthritis, osteoporosis and heart disease; above all she values human attention and kind words.
Needs ≈ $111 per month
Mrs. Liudmyla, 69 · Ukraine
She lives alone, her family is far away; despite chronic illnesses and her age, she remains a lively housewife.
Needs ≈ $111 per month
Mrs. Nina, 79 · Ukraine
After a heart attack she moves with difficulty, lives alone; she knits socks for soldiers of the Armed Forces.
Needs ≈ $111 per month
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Mrs. Nina, 69 · Ukraine
She lives alone with disability group 2, arthritis and diabetes; she plants flowers near her building.
Needs ≈ $111 per month
Mrs. Vira, 70 · Ukraine
After a limb amputation and because of diabetes she cannot meet her basic needs on her own.
Needs ≈ $111 per month
Mrs. Tetiana, 87 · Ukraine
87 years old, with progressive arthritis and heart disease, yet still active: exhibitions, parks, meeting people.
Needs ≈ $111 per month
Mrs. Olha, 75 · Ukraine
She cares for a daughter with a disability, and has heart problems and arthritis herself; the money goes mostly on medicine.
Needs ≈ $111 per month
Mrs. Larysa, 77 · Ukraine
Her son is at the front; she has heart disease, loss of sight, hypertension and severe diabetes, and stays cheerful.
Needs ≈ $111 per month
Mrs. Olha, 74 · Ukraine
She lives with a daughter who has a disability; she herself has hypertension, heart disease and cancer.
Needs ≈ $111 per month
Mrs. Nadiia, 77 · Ukraine
She lives alone, is active at the University of the Third Age; she has hypertension and heart disease.
Needs ≈ $111 per month
Mrs. Nina, 73 · Ukraine
After a heart attack and a mini-stroke she has diabetes, and most of her pension goes on treatment.
Needs ≈ $111 per month
Mrs. Hanna, 80 · Ukraine
She lives with a son who has a disability; she has diabetes and, after a heart attack, moves with difficulty.
Needs ≈ $111 per month
Mrs. Vira, 73 · Ukraine
She lost her son in the war in 2023; she has arthritis, diabetes, and poor eyesight and hearing.
Needs ≈ $111 per month
Mrs. Pelaheia, 66 · Ukraine
Bedridden; she has heart disease, osteoporosis and spinal stenosis; two sons are at the front.
Needs ≈ $111 per month
Mrs. Lidiia, 71 · Ukraine
After a myocardial infarction she has heart disease and diabetes; she lives with her daughter, granddaughter and dogs.
Needs ≈ $111 per month
Mrs. Halyna, 79 · Ukraine
A widow who buried her son this year; she is fighting cancer and heart failure.
Needs ≈ $111 per month
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Hrabovskyi Vitalii Oleksandrovych20 people in careFund helper, UkraineHe found his calling in charity work while still at school. He works at the Real Help fund every day: helping people in difficult circumstances and developing charitable initiatives. He looks after the people in his district, knows their needs and delivers the help in person.
Nikolenko Liudmyla Vitaliivna20 people in careFund helper, UkraineBorn in Berezan; her family later moved to another city. She spent twenty years running her own business and raised three sons. She now works as an assistant-consultant to a city council deputy and volunteers at the Real Help fund. She believes kindness has the power to change people's lives.
Stadnik Liudmyla Borysivna20 people in careFund helper, UkraineBorn in the region, she moved to a city after the Chornobyl nuclear power plant disaster and still lives there. An active volunteer who cannot imagine her life without people and without helping others. She loves books and time with her family. At the fund she looks after the people in her district and accompanies the deliveries.
Yakovenko Nina Andriivna20 people in careFund helper, UkraineA helper at the Real Help fund. She looks after the people in her district: she knows each of them personally, checks their needs and accompanies the deliveries of groceries and medicine.