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That need has only grown since Russia launched its full-scale invasion. Nearly 700 Ukrainian children have been killed and more than 2,400 injured. For many families, hospitals like Ohmatdyt remain a lifeline.

When that care was threatened, Canadians responded.

Through the CUF-UCC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal, nearly $1 million was raised to help restore critical services at Ohmatdyt. Equipment was replaced, essential medicines were delivered, and doctors were able to continue treating the children who needed them most.

Today, as Ukraine continues to endure new attacks. The work taking place inside Ohmatdyt is not about statistics but about lives changed and children given hope and a future.

Two years later, the impact of Canadian support lives on through the doctors, patients, and families of Ohmatdyt, where children continue to receive the specialized care they need.

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About the Canada-Ukraine Foundation (CUF)

Founded in 1995, CUF has a strong track record of providing humanitarian assistance to Ukraine in the areas of healthcare, education and civil society. CUF collaborates with aid providers in Ukraine, Canada, and beyond to maximize impact and cost-effectiveness of your support.

A veteran taking their first steps on a prosthetic limb. 

A therapist helping a patient regain their independence. 

A surgeon sharing new expertise with colleagues across Ukraine. 

Behind each one is a journey of recovery, determination, and the people working tirelessly to make it possible.

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, more than 24,000 wounded Ukrainians have received care through UNBROKEN, a rehabilitation centre in Lviv that has become a leader in recovery, rehabilitation, and innovation. Every day, patients and healthcare professionals are working together to achieve something extraordinary: restoring mobility, rebuilding confidence, and helping people return to their families, careers, and communities.

With support from the Canada-Ukraine Foundation and our partners, UNBROKEN has expanded access to specialized rehabilitation equipment, advanced therapy systems, and professional training. Ukrainian healthcare workers have also travelled to Canada to strengthen their expertise in prosthetic care, reconstructive surgery, rehabilitation, and neurophysiology, bringing that knowledge home to benefit patients across the country.

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To donate using AMEX, PayPal, or Google Pay, please visit our CanadaHelps page. 

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About the Canada-Ukraine Foundation (CUF)

Founded in 1995, CUF has a strong track record of providing humanitarian assistance to Ukraine in the areas of healthcare, education and civil society. CUF collaborates with aid providers in Ukraine, Canada, and beyond to maximize impact and cost-effectiveness of your support.

As the missiles came, a woman knelt on the floor of a Kyiv metro station and prayed.  Around her, residents had rushed underground, clutching bags and blankets, filling the platforms of a transit system that has long served as a last refuge. Parents held children. Elderly women sat against tiled walls.

This is what an ordinary night in Kyiv looks like in the fourth year of Russia’s full-scale war.

According to the Kyiv Metro, last night saw the highest number of people taking refuge in their underground subway systems, with a record-breaking 41,000+ Ukrainians taking shelter across 46 subway stations—over 4,500 of these were children.

Rescue teams worked through the night with air raid alerts still in effect. The attack cut electricity to 140,000 residents. 

These are not just statistics. Behind every statistic is a human story. They are families in high-rise apartments who went to bed in their own homes and woke—if they woke—to smoke, broken glass and silence.

This is the reality Ukrainians live inside every single night. And it is the reality that drives every program the Canada-Ukraine Foundation supports.

Your support keeps CUF partners on the ground—responding, rebuilding lives, and standing with the people of Ukraine when the world moves on to the next headline.

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To donate using AMEX, PayPal, or Google Pay, please visit our CanadaHelps page. 

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About the Canada-Ukraine Foundation (CUF)

Founded in 1995, CUF has a strong track record of providing humanitarian assistance to Ukraine in the areas of healthcare, education and civil society. CUF collaborates with aid providers in Ukraine, Canada, and beyond to maximize impact and cost-effectiveness of your support.

More than 3,500 children have been killed or injured in Ukraine since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, with child casualties rising again this year, according to a recent UN report. For these families, the war is not a single moment of devastation, but a daily fight to protect childhood itself.

When families flee war, they leave behind more than homes. For children living with disabilities, they lose the fragile systems that make daily life possible: trusted therapists, familiar routines, specialized care, a sense of safety. In an instant, those lifelines can vanish.

Based in Lviv, the Dzherelo Rehabilitation Centre has been a lifeline for children and youth with disabilities since long before the full-scale invasion, providing rehabilitation services and implementing day programs. What began in 1993 as a small, self-funded group grew into something much larger: a place where children with complex needs can develop, socialize, and experience a real quality of life every day. For many families, it is simply irreplaceable.

Behind every headline is a human story.

Your support helps the people behind the news.

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To donate using AMEX, PayPal, or Google Pay, please visit our CanadaHelps page. 

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About the Canada-Ukraine Foundation (CUF)

Founded in 1995, CUF has a strong track record of providing humanitarian assistance to Ukraine in the areas of healthcare, education and civil society. CUF collaborates with aid providers in Ukraine, Canada, and beyond to maximize impact and cost-effectiveness of your support.

Russia uses hypersonic missiles to target schools and residential buildings.

On Saturday night, while most of Kyiv slept, the air raid sirens sounded again.

Russia used some of its most advanced and dangerous weapons in this attack. Among them was the Oreshnik hypersonic missile. This weapon can carry nuclear warheads and is nearly impossible to intercept with Ukraine’s current air defence. It is the third time Russia has used Oreshnik missile in Ukraine.

The headlines will move on. They always do.

But behind every story is a person. A family with an apartment wall open to the sky. A child with no school to attend. An elderly woman with mobility issues who doesn’t go down to the bomb shelter and has survived too many nights like this. The Canada-Ukraine Foundation serves these people. They need us now.

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To donate using AMEX, PayPal, or Google Pay, please visit our CanadaHelps page. 

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About the Canada-Ukraine Foundation (CUF)

Founded in 1995, CUF has a strong track record of providing humanitarian assistance to Ukraine in the areas of healthcare, education and civil society. CUF collaborates with aid providers in Ukraine, Canada, and beyond to maximize impact and cost-effectiveness of your support.

When Russia’s war in Ukraine makes the news, it arrives in numbers. Casualties, internally displaced persons, cities under attack. According to a recent World Health Organization (WHO) report, there have been more than 3,000 attacks on healthcare in Ukraine since the full-scale invasion began in February 2022. Some 80% of attacks targeted outpatient clinics, hospitals, and other care settings, while 20% targeted ambulances and other health vehicles. Nearly a third of incidents resulted in casualties, making medical transport one of the highest-risk areas for injury and death.

In the corridors of Ukraine’s emergency medical system, those numbers have faces. Dr. Maksym Maksymenko is the Medical Director of Ukraine’s Centre for Disaster Medicine of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. Every day, his teams respond to emergencies across the country, including in territories only recently liberated from Russian occupation, where healthcare infrastructure has been devastated, and basic diagnostic care is nearly impossible to find.

Through the CUF-UCC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal, in partnership with the BCU Foundation and the Tryzub Gala Foundation, 90 handheld Butterfly iQ+ ultrasound devices and 90 iPads were delivered to the Centre.

Behind every headline is a human story. Your support helps the people behind the news.

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To donate using AMEX, PayPal, or Google Pay, please visit our CanadaHelps page. 

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About the Canada-Ukraine Foundation (CUF)

Founded in 1995, CUF has a strong track record of providing humanitarian assistance to Ukraine in the areas of healthcare, education and civil society. CUF collaborates with aid providers in Ukraine, Canada, and beyond to maximize impact and cost-effectiveness of your support.

Over 48 hours on May 13–14, Russia conducted one of the largest and most prolonged aerial assaults since the full-scale invasion began in 2022. Close to 1,600 drones and 60 missiles targeted over 20 regions of Ukraine.

News stories often focus on the destruction and displacement caused by the war. But behind every headline and statistic, you will also find human stories of resilience, identity, culture, and hope.

🎥 In this short video with Olesia Luciw-Andryjowycz, our Board’s Secretary and Chair of our Civil Society Committee, members of the Ukrainian Canadian community who are helping preserve Ukraine’s culture, identity and spirit in the face of Russia’s war are featured.

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To donate using AMEX, PayPal, or Google Pay, please visit our CanadaHelps page. 

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About the Canada-Ukraine Foundation (CUF)

Founded in 1995, CUF has a strong track record of providing humanitarian assistance to Ukraine in the areas of healthcare, education and civil society. CUF collaborates with aid providers in Ukraine, Canada, and beyond to maximize impact and cost-effectiveness of your support.

HUMAN DIMENSION CAMPAIGN RUNS UNTIL JULY 6

For over 30 years, the Canada-Ukraine Foundation (CUF) has stood with Ukraine. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, our commitment has only deepened, supporting programs that place people at the centre of Ukraine’s resilience and the vitality of its civil society. 

Russia’s war in Ukraine is told through numbers, headlines, and breaking news. But behind every statistic is a person. A teacher continuing to educate children despite daily disruptions. A doctor caring for patients under immense pressure. A person waiting for the return of a loved one.

Through the support of donors like you, CUF works with partners on the ground in Ukraine to support initiatives that strengthen civil society and help communities endure extraordinary challenges, particularly in the areas of health and education.

Behind every headline is a human story. 

Your support helps the people behind the news.

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To donate using AMEX, PayPal, or Google Pay, please visit our CanadaHelps page. 

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About the Canada-Ukraine Foundation (CUF)

Founded in 1995, CUF has a strong track record of providing humanitarian assistance to Ukraine in the areas of healthcare, education and civil society. CUF collaborates with aid providers in Ukraine, Canada, and beyond to maximize impact and cost-effectiveness of your support.

On May 29th, Toronto’s historic Arcadian Court will come alive as we celebrate the Canada-Ukraine Foundation’s (CUF) 30th Anniversary, featuring an unforgettable evening with Canadian literary icon Margaret Atwood.

This Gala is more than a celebration of three decades of impact. It is a powerful recommitment of Canadian support for Ukraine at a moment when it matters most. The event would not have been possible without the generous support of our sponsors who are making this milestone evening a reality.

We are grateful to the Temerty Foundation, our Conversation Partner, for making possible the featured dialogue at the heart of the evening.

SILVER SPONSORS

We also extend our sincere thanks to our Silver Sponsors — Meest, AV-Canada, and the Shevchenko Foundation — for their generous contributions to this celebration.

We are equally thankful to our Bronze Sponsors, as well as our Event Sponsors, whose support is bringing this evening to life.

BRONZE SPONSORS

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EVENT SPONSORS

Join us as we honour the past, stand firmly in the present, and shape the future of CUF’s mission together.  

Book your tickets now. Capacity is limited.

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Don’t miss your chance to be part of the Canada-Ukraine Foundation’s milestone celebration. To learn more, please visit our website.  

️ 🗓 Friday, May 29, 2026 • Cocktail reception begins at 6:30 p.m.

📍 Arcadian Court • 401 Bay Street, Simpson Tower 8th floor, Toronto 

🔗 Information and tickets: click here

Tickets are $500* per guest. To inquire about table purchases or sponsorship opportunities for our gala, please contact us at [email protected]. 

*Individual tickets include a charitable tax receipt of $300, issued in accordance with CRA requirements.

The CUF-UCC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal – Displaced Ukrainians Appeal has been in operation for over three years, having disbursed approximately $2.9 million to dozens of projects across Canada in support of Ukrainians displaced by Russia’s war in Ukraine and currently sheltering in Canada.

In the initial phase of operations, supported projects primarily addressed acute, immediate needs, particularly food and housing. As arrival rates of displaced Ukrainians stabilized, demand – and corresponding funding allocations – shifted toward psychosocial and integration supports, including, among other things, trauma counselling and mental health services, economic integration and employment assistance, health care gap coverage, official language training programs.

With new donations to the Appeal tapering, the CUF-UCC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal has determined that it will conclude its activities through the support of one final “legacy” project grant: the Displaced Ukrainians Legacy Fund.

This RFP invites qualified organizations in Canada to submit proposals for a single, high-impact legacy project that will advance the Fund’s core humanitarian objectives and deliver enduring benefits to displaced Ukrainians in Canada beyond the lifespan of the Appeal itself.

• Total funding available (1 grant): $250,000 CAD 

• Application intake period: April 30 – July 31, 2026 

Applications must be submitted via the CUF website at www.cufoundation.ca/apply-DULF. All inquiries should be directed to [email protected].