"Let's live here" is a joint charity initiative of Kyivstar and the "Return Alive" foundation with the partner support of the 1+1 media group.
The initiative's fundraising campaign united Ukrainians and foreign partners, subscribers and employees of the Kyivstar mobile operator, representatives of business and culture.
"Kyivstar continues to systematically support defenders together with our reliable partner - the "Return Alive" army competent aid fund. I sincerely thank everyone who supported the "We live here" initiative. United, we even exceeded the ambitious goal of 175 million UAH and collected 180 million hryvnias, which will help sappers make our lands safer for life," noted Kyivstar CEO Oleksandr Komarov.
During the project, Kyivstar transferred more than UAH 61 million to the collection, of which:
The collection of funds was completed during the charity auction B2U: Business to Ukraine with the participation of representatives of the Ukrainian and international business community. Thanks to the raffle of unique lots from Ukrainian artists and the "Return Alive" fund, another UAH 1.5 million was collected for the demining of Ukrainian territories.
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Engineering and demining units of the Armed Forces Support Forces are demining the liberated territories of Kharkiv Oblast and Kherson Oblast, Mykolaiv Oblast and Kyiv Oblast. In addition, they perform critical tasks at the front. We started handing over reliable cars and basic essential equipment to them under the project "Let us live here" last summer. This has already significantly strengthened the sappers and saved more than one life
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Taras Chmut, director of the Come Back Alive Foundation.
106 sapper groups have already been equipped with the necessary property, the latest issuance of equipment is still ongoing.