“Your contributions not only feed and nourish a population targeted for devastation, but lifts the spirits of 44 million Ukrainians fighting for their country’s freedom and against tyranny.”
Ira Leesfield, Chair
– April 8th is Ira’s Birthday –
The only gift is a donation to the Leesfield Family Foundation.
We have pledged $250,000 to match your humanitarian donations to Ukraine
100% of your Ukrainian contributions at work!
We have already received donations from you, your friends and community. We continue to match all donations up to $250,000. 100% of the money raised goes directly to provide food, medicine and shelter to the Ukrainian people. Our main partner is World Central Kitchen which feeds and nourishes citizens and soldiers resisting this brutal Russian invasion.
Struggling Ukrainian refugees and soldiers receive immediate nourishment as we provided basic life needs as follows:
- Serving 250,000 hot and nourishing meals every day in six countries, with more than 5 million meals served to date.
- Partnering with restaurants in the Ukraine in 33 cities, serving families from Kharkiv to Odessa, to Lviv, to Kyiv.
- Established 155 cooking kitchens with active feeding efforts at 41 border crossing locations in Poland, Romania, Moldova, Hungary and Slovakia.
- Assisting refugees as they travel toward their destinations in Spain and other bordering countries outside the region.
- In Lviv, with 200,000 sheltering, they are now making 10,000 sandwiches per day and serving 18,000 hot meals to 75 shelters including a kindergarten with 60 refugees.
- Over 2,000 tons of food have been distributed inside Ukraine through World Central Kitchen restaurant partners.
- Providing comforting meals at border crossings, reception centers, shelters and train stations and the Warsaw National Stadium is set up to feed 1,600 people each day.
- As of last week, refugees arriving in bordering countries and Spain received the following meals:
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- Poland: 1,800,417
- Ukraine: 2,461,753
- Romania: 303,969
- Moldova: 198,108
- Hungary: 57,700
- Slovakia: 1,186
- Spain: 20,653
These efforts are just a small part of the picture. The free and democratic people of Ukraine know you have their back every time a shipment of food arrives or a meal is served. There are 1,296 distribution sites that are fully staffed with local hires and volunteers who provide 24/7 food service.
Your contributions not only feed and nourish a population targeted for devastation, but lifts the spirits of 44 million Ukrainians fighting for their country’s freedom and against tyranny.
UNICEF has also received our support as they rapidly have stepped up their emergency efforts from field offices in various Ukrainian cities. Safe water is being transported to conflict-affected areas, and most importantly, child protection teams have mobilized providing psychological and social care to hundreds of children traumatized by the insecurity, violence and abuse as they are separated from their families.
If you have any questions, please feel free to call me at 305-854-4900, and remember – the Leesfield Family Foundation is matching every one of your contribution dollars up to $250,000.