Urgent humanitarian support for the Ukrainians in wartime conditions

In times of peace, the mission of the Ukrainian Mediation Academy is to promote the establishment and spread of mediation and other alternative dispute resolution methods in Ukraine, as well as to increase the level of the culture of peace and harmony in Ukrainian society.However, the cursed war affected everyone in Ukraine. It cut short thousands of lives, destroying and changing millions of Ukrainians' destinies. At the same time, it united Ukraine in the struggle for its freedom and independence and the entire civilized world around the most essential human values. Priorities in life, work, and communication have changed. In the Ukrainian Academy of Mediation activities, they have also changed. We hope that temporarily, but the course on the development of mediation has given way to the need to provide emergency support to the Ukrainian population in war conditions.Immediately before the full-scale invasion, our organization concluded an agreement with the EU on implementing the 3-year project "CONSENT: Improving Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in Ukraine with an emphasis on mediation." The project's initial focus was on strengthening the role of alternative dispute resolution in Ukraine. But the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russia certainly affected the project and caused it to be repurposed. Thanks to the flexibility and efficiency of the EU, we managed to reorient the project, and partly the resources of the project were directed to the urgent needs of Ukrainians. It was a vital resource that allowed us to buy food, medicine, baby food, baby hygiene products, water and other things necessary for Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Poltava, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Chernihiv, Kyiv and other regions of Ukraine.Assistance was provided at the request of legal entities (hospitals, orphanages, charitable organizations, volunteer centres, etc.) and local and central authorities from different regions of Ukraine (Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, State Judicial Administration of Ukraine, state administrations, city councils, etc.).
Based on the results of 6 months of work in this direction, the Ukrainian Mediation Academy's total support to the Ukrainians exceeded 5 000 000 hryvnias. We provided:● 30+ tons of food;● 10 000+ food and hygiene items for babies;● 11 000+ units of medicines and medical equipment.
Geography of UAM assistance - 10+ regions of Ukraine.