113 Kilometres for Ukraine
$400,000 worth of medical supplies are stranded in a warehouse in Denver. Together, we can ship them to Ukraine.
In order to raise the $20,000 needed to put life-saving equipment in the hands of Ukrainian doctors, four members of the Aid Pioneers team are completing a half-Ironman on July 24th 2023.
Meet our ‘triathletes’
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Michael Pusic
Medical Director
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Alexis Broschek
Managing Director
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Henri Roth
Head of Legal
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Alexander Wense
Legal volunteer
Take a look at the packing list of a past container here. And if our fundraising goal is met, you will be able to track the arrival of the container.
‘Compared to the distances our shipment travels, a half-Ironman actually seems pretty manageable.’
Our work in Ukraine
In summer 2022, most of the medical equipment needed in Ukraine was close to sold out on the European market. Our medical procurement team started searching for international partners to send containers containing life-saving medical equipment to Ukraine’s frontline hospitals. What we learned? Moving 1 ton of medical equipment is much harder than we thought. But it can be accomplished with the support of world-class partners – and your donation.
FAQs
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Project CURE is the world’s largest distributor of donated medical supplies. They receive donations from hospitals and manufacturers across the U.S. and pack containers based on their partners’ needs. For a $15,000 handling fee, they’ll pack a container with goods worth over $350,000. They’re headquartered in Denver, with warehouses all across the U.S..
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Flexport is a global freight forwarding company, that has donated free shipping (worth over $30,000) to send each container from Denver to a central warehouse in Lviv, Ukraine. Our local partner, United Help Ukraine, coordinates last-mile delivery, with volunteers driving supplies to the frontlines in ambulances.
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The Ukrainian Medical Association, working in close collaboration with the Ministry of Health, has identified the 22 frontline hospitals receiving the most casualties from the war. Hospitals are selected based on their number of beds, size of ICUs, and proximity to the frontlines. The Ukrainian Medical Association also consolidates and vets needs lists across these 22 hospitals. Aid Pioneers liaises between Project CURE’s inventory of donated medical supplies and the pre-identified needs in order to pack each container.
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Your donation covers Project CURE’s handling fees to pack the container, last-mile delivery charges, and all costs associated with managing shipping logistics. Aid Pioneers overhead fees never exceed 1.5% on a given shipment - virtually unparalleled in humanitarian response.
Discover more projects
Crisis relief in Syria
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Following the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria on February 6, 2023, the majority of relief aid has been sent to Turkey, since international organisations struggled to circumvent the international sanctions imposed on the Syrian regime. However, the need in areas in northwestern Syria not controlled by Bashar al-Assad remains critical. For that reason, Aid Pioneers is bringing medical supplies to Syria and creating the greatest possible impact with every euro we invest in humanitarian projects.
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We have established a global partner network (Kuehne + Nagel, Project C.U.R.E., HiHFAD) through which we organize the shipment of medical equipment and consumables to the northwest of Syria. For about 15.000€ we cover all costs for procurement, customs clearance and transport of medical material worth about 200.000€. This will be delivered locally to over 140 public medical facilities.
Sending relief items to Ukraine in 2022
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Next to our medical project in Ukraine, we also operated a second project during the first months of the war against Ukraine.
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Especially in the first weeks of the Russian invasion, food was scarce in Ukraine. Through an alliance of Berlin-based start-ups, such as Hello Fresh, Forto, Sennder and Hive, we sent about 500 tones of food donations efficiently to our Ukrainian partner organizations via a pipeline assembled from donated logistics services!
Access to clean energy in Africa and the Middle East
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Energy is the cornerstone for economic development, for functioning hospitals and good education. However, electricity grids in many countries are weak and diesel-powered generators are expensive and real polluters. We make clean energy accessible by pre-financing photovoltaic systems.
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Solar panels are the most reliable, affordable and healthy option for many small organizations in the Middle East and East Africa. However, small organizations often struggle to pay the upfront sum to switch to solar. We support them with a combination of a grant and a loan (i.e. a loan with negative interest). Now that the organizations no longer have to pay electricity bills, they repay the monthly installment equal to their former electricity bill. Once repaid, the money then supports organizations that could never afford electricity.
