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THE NEED IS GROWING

The massive drone and rocket attacks in Ukraine are destroying more and more houses, apartments and vital infrastructure. More and more civilians are being injured and killed. This makes fast, humanitarian aid all the more important and valuable for the war victims.

Human Front Aid is a direct emergency relief project that has been registered in Switzerland since 28.03.2022.

Since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, it has provided direct immediate assistance to people in the crisis area. The aid reaches those affected quickly and uncomplicated on site.

Even in the fourth year of war, the Bernese cultural worker Bänz Margot lives and coordinates aid in Odesa. He supports his experienced team of Ukrainians in the daily handover of cash amounts to those directly affected by air raids.

Bänz suffers, like the Ukrainian population, from the frequent air raid alarms that rob almost everyone of sleep every night. But it's not just the fear and uncertainty of where the next drone or rocket will hit that burdens the psyche. Human Front Aid encounters new fates of war-affected people every day who depend on quick emergency aid, people who have been injured, have lost relatives and whose entire belongings have been destroyed. This is burdensome, but also motivates to do even more. Giving up is not an option. For this aid, however, we are dependent on ever new donations.

In Switzerland, Human Front Aid can count on the practical support of two new experts:

• Georg Häsler, security and military expert of the «Neue Zürcher Zeitung» and former long-time journalist at Swiss television.
• Daniel Koch, former medical coordinator at the ICRC and former head of the «Communicable Diseases» department at the Federal Office of Public Health.
• 6,000 civilian war victims were supported with individual, direct, financial bridging aid in the last three months.
• The weekly soup kitchen and the «Cash for Food» project for those particularly affected by war and poverty are also being continued.
• 8,000 portions of warm food distributed.

Human Front Aid passes on donations directly in cash to war-affected people within a few days.

• Every cash handover is documented and photographed with the consent of those affected.
• Over 97% of donations are passed on directly. Human Front Aid has no own cash reserves and is continuously dependent on donations.
• Human Front Aid is one of the few organizations that provides direct and personal emergency aid.
• Human Front Aid is continuously expanding its sphere of influence. The aid now reaches the oblasts of Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Kirovohrad and Dnipropetrovsk.

HELPING IN NEED

Examples: In such cases, Human Front Aid provides unbureaucratic, direct financial emergency aid.

1. On the night of June 10-11, drones hit 5 houses in Odesa. Valentina, 59, survived, her husband could only be recovered dead from the rubble. Her neighbor Melatina, 54, suffered the same fate. The mobile team of Human Front Aid handed over cash emergency aid on site to the two severely tested women who lost much more than just their belongings.
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2. Lydia, 64, and Mykhailo, 73, returned from the city of Mykolaiv to their half-destroyed house in the village of Posad-Pokrovske in the Kherson region, even though there is no longer any electricity or running water. Sick and marked by war, they are still happy to be home, even though only one room with a leaky roof remains for them. But they smile and are infinitely grateful for the help. Thanks to the Human Front Aid employee who came to them, they feel a little less abandoned. They know that this is made possible by donations from strangers who are not indifferent to their situation. The financial means will help the couple buy urgently needed medications.
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3. On July 11, 2025, Olena, 49, came to Human Front Aid in Odesa. She fled a month ago from the Russian-occupied city of Nova Kakhovka on the left bank of the Dnieper in Kherson Oblast. Alone with her two children aged 10 and 14, she is mentally shaken and urgently dependent on emergency aid. Her third child was killed by a drone.
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4. For a month, Maria, 68, Lyudmila, 58, Victoria, 51, and Serhiy, 52, have been cared for in the hospital in Kherson. Their old car caught fire when they were attacked by a drone. As if by a miracle, they escaped the inferno. They will not be able to return to their fishing village of Stanislav at the mouth of the Dnieper because of the constant shelling.

Your generous support is crucial to continue helping the victims of war quickly and efficiently. Your contribution reaches the needy people in Ukraine directly without detours.

Thank you very much for your donation!

Bänz Margot and the Human Front Aid team
Odesa, July 2025

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