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The Suffering of the Civilian Population Continues Unabated

This makes fast, humanitarian aid all the more important and valuable.

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.

Dear Donors

Written by Daniel Koch:

I'm writing this newsletter as a personal experience report. I had the opportunity to visit Bänz Margot and part of his local Human Front Aid team in Odesa. I was able to participate in a distribution of emergency aid cash amounts at a local support center in Mykolaiv, observe the Sunday soup kitchen in front of the main station in Odesa, and talk to affected people and helpers (as far as linguistically possible).

Great respect is due to the helpers of Human Front Aid, who patiently listen to difficult fates in conversations and filter out all those who can be supported by immediate financial emergency aid. Although they themselves had to flee from the occupied areas and process terrible experiences, they don't tire of helping others and listen empathetically to hundreds of sad stories.

Tania shows me photos of her apartment in Pokrovsk on her phone, which was hit several times by rockets. Painful memories while she shows Bänz and me the street where several drones destroyed the houses. Here she helped, as already described in the last newsletter, two elderly women whose husbands were killed by explosions on the night of June 10.

Often the helpers, some of whom work part-time at Human Front Aid, are asked by doctors to help particularly vulnerable patients. Public health facilities cannot cover all patients' needs. Xenja, a nurse who helps at Human Front Aid, says: «Often it's single mothers who find themselves in extremely precarious situations. Unemployed, displaced from their home villages, they end up sick and alone with their small children in Odesa.»

✓ Human Front Aid passes on donations directly in cash to war-affected people within a few days.
✓ Every handover is documented and photographed with the consent of those affected.
✓ 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.

The Sunday soup kitchen, the «Cash for food» program and the support in the psychiatric clinic are also being continued.

✓ Human Front Aid passes on donations directly in cash to war-affected people within a few days.
✓ Every handover is documented and photographed with the consent of those affected.
✓ 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.

The Burden on Families of War-Disabled Victims Is Enormous.

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

Oxana, our helper from Kherson, tells:

Every day, families turn to HUMAN FRONT AID seeking help, asking for support in their tense situation. A 57-year-old woman asked for help because of her 34-year-old son's difficult health situation. Before the war, the man was completely healthy. In 2022, when the Russian army took the village where very fierce fighting took place and people were tortured, the family fled at night on foot across fields. They were discovered by the occupiers and shot at. The young man suffered a severe head injury. His mother and father carried him as far as they could. Then they called an ambulance from Mykolaiv and brought the man unconscious to the hospital. He was immediately operated on the head. Due to the severe injuries, part of his brain was removed and a plate was inserted. Since then, the family has been fighting every day to improve their son's health. He currently suffers from hearing loss, numbness and swelling in the limbs, gait and orientation disorders, and epileptic seizures occur. He must regularly go for treatment to the neurological departments of Kherson and Mykolaiv. He constantly takes medication to stabilize his condition. The help from HUMAN FRONT AID will help the family in this difficult situation to complete another rehabilitation course.

A couple with two children aged 17 and 7 contacted me by phone. In the conversation, it turned out that the family needed support due to the man's health condition. The 37-year-old man suffers from a stress-related heart disease as a result of the war. The place where the man lives with his family was occupied in 2022. For almost a month, the family hid with their small child in the basement. They fled at night under fire from the village to Mykolaiv. Due to hypothermia, the man developed pneumonia and was hospitalized. During the examination, a heart dysfunction was detected, and due to stress overload, he suffered an ischemic stroke. After thorough heart examinations in Mykolaiv, he was referred to the Heart Institute in Kyiv. But his heart is so severely damaged that only an organ transplant can save him. He was put on the waiting list for a heart transplant. He has been on this list for two years now. Every three months he must undergo an examination at the cardiology center in Kyiv. He bears the travel costs as well as the costs for analyses and ultrasound examinations himself. He must take tablets daily, the costs of which he also bears himself. The financial support from HUMAN FRONT AID helps the family in this challenging situation.

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!

Dr. med. Daniel Koch MPH

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

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