Residents of the de-occupied community in Kyiv region received help from the Red Cross of Ukraine and the Coca-Cola Foundation

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Residents of Velikodymersk OTG, whose homes were destroyed during the Russian occupation, received humanitarian aid – bed sets, as well as a powerful generator, which was installed in the shelter where they currently live. All this was purchased and delivered to Velika Dymerka by the Red Cross Society of Ukraine thanks to a grant from the Coca-Cola Foundation. As Anatoliy Bochkaryev, head of the Velikodymer settlement, reported, 350 houses on the territory of the community were destroyed during the occupation in March 2022. At least 160 families were left homeless in Velika Dymerka alone. They were given the opportunity to settle in a local dormitory designed for more than 200 people. A powerful generator will ensure uninterrupted operation of this collective accommodation center for internally displaced persons in case of power outages. Sleeping sets, which include a blanket, a pillow, a set of bed linen and a towel, should improve the comfort of its residents. Kits provided to people as part of humanitarian aid will remain in their possession. For those who have lost almost everything, this is an important contribution to the recovery of their own property, which has to be collected anew. “Of course, people in the hostel are provided with some basic necessities – bedding, beds, kitchen utensils and free products, but when a person who has lost everything gets something of his own, it also means a lot,” says Lyudmila Yarych, head of Brovarska city district Organizations of the Red Cross Society of Ukraine. The Red Cross of Ukraine always comes to the rescue in difficult times, when people need it most. According to the resident of the dormitory, 67-year-old Nadiya Ivanovna, the Society’s volunteers were the first to come to the rescue. “For people who have nothing left, all help is important. Even a kind word is already important help! It’s good here, as good as it can be when a person doesn’t have a home,” says the woman. Nadiya Ivanovna hopes that in the future she will take the sleeping set she received to her new home. The Red Cross Society of Ukraine has been closely cooperating with the Coca-Cola System of Companies in Ukraine for more than 14 years. Since February 2022, The Coca-Cola Company, Coca-Cola HBC, and the Coca-Cola Foundation have directed more than $20 million to provide humanitarian aid and support for company employees working in Ukraine. The Red Cross Society of Ukraine is one of Coca-Cola’s main partners in this area. The society has information about the needs of people and communities, makes purchases according to international standards, cooperates with authorities in accordance with its powers, collects and delivers aid to those who need it most. In this way, the resources provided by big business are directed to solving the most important humanitarian problems. “In winter, Coca-Cola brought 70,000 food kits to Ukraine for residents of affected communities and internally displaced persons, and now the Coca-Cola Foundation is strengthening institutions that host internally displaced persons – modular towns, dormitories, hospitals, boarding schools, outpatient clinics and others, providing with their blankets, pillows, bedding and generators. Also, electric generators will go to communities in different parts of Ukraine. This will make communities less vulnerable and more protected, more resistant to challenges,” says Andriy Bublyk, director of corporate relations and sustainable development at Coca -Cola HBC in Ukraine, Armenia and Moldova. Currently, within the framework of the large-scale project of the Coca-Cola Foundation and the Red Cross Society of Ukraine, 54 electric generators are distributed among Ukrainian communities with the aim of uninterrupted supply of electricity to centers for the collective accommodation of internally displaced persons. In addition, 5,000 displaced people and people who lost their homes as a result of hostilities were provided with sets of bed linen.

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