Geography of our work

Where we work

Pick an oblast on the map or in the list and you will see which projects are documented there, what role the foundation had, and what you can check that against.

Oblasts
8
Projects
9
Years of work
2023–2026
Map of the Ukrainian oblasts where the Hands of Friends foundation works
Ukraine9 projects

Pick an oblast - the panel beside the map shows its record.

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  • Oblast with documented projects
  • Other oblasts - no public records on this site

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Ukraine

Below is everything the foundation has published for each oblast: projects, the foundation’s role, period, source and document state. Pick an oblast to open its record.

What is published, and what is missing

Oblasts with project pages
8
Oblasts plotted on the map
8 / 8
Oblasts with an approved photograph
6 / 8
Oblasts with an external official record
2 / 8
Oblasts where the partner record names the foundation’s role
8 / 8

Donetsk oblast

Beneficiary registration by a team wearing UHF vests
Beneficiary registration during the winter project. · Published by Hands of Friends
Period
2025–2026
Foundation’s role
Lead · accountable · Implementing partner · The foundation's own programme
State
Project state: Ongoing
Documents
Document availability: Public

Home region · HQ in Kramatorsk

Donetsk oblast

4 projects

Oblast and project

Winter Resilience 2025–2026

2025–2026

Winter Resilience 2025–2026

Projects in this oblast

  • Winter Resilience 2025–2026

    2025–2026Project state: CompletedUkraine Humanitarian Fund (UHF)

    Support for the most vulnerable people in frontline areas of Donetsk and Kharkiv regions during winter: solid fuel, heating utility payment support, winter non-food items and clothing. Implemented with NGO Enlightening Initiative with support from the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund (UHF/OCHA).

  • Protection and comprehensive aid to vulnerable populations

    2025Project state: CompletedUkrainian NGO Fund (National Network for Local Philanthropy Development)

    Case management, social support and targeted aid for displaced people and people affected by shelling in Donetsk oblast.

  • Aid to shelling-affected families, IDPs and people with limited mobility

    2025Project state: CompletedUkrainian NGO Fund (National Network for Local Philanthropy Development)

    Case management and targeted support for families whose homes were damaged and for people who find it hardest to evacuate or get help, in Donetsk oblast.

  • Supporting residents after shelling

    2025Project state: OngoingICF "Friends' Hands"

    Emergency aid for families whose homes were damaged by strikes on the city.

«We understand that this aid will not replace what was lost to the shelling, nor bring residents peace in their current situation. But we hope it will ease their family budgets a little and let them feel supported - by us, by local government and by international partners.»
The "Hands of Friends" teamon the aid distribution in Krasnatorka, May 2025

Khmelnytskyi oblast

Bright, renovated classrooms with colourful furniture
Renovated classrooms after capital and current repairs · Published by Hands of Friends, 17 Jul 2026
Period
2023–2026
Foundation’s role
Implementing partner
State
Project state: Completed
Documents
Document availability: Not publicly available - awaiting foundation materialNo per-oblast report supplied by the foundation yet

Khmelnytskyi oblast

2 projects

Oblast and project

Emergency aid to IDPs in partnership with local organizations

2023

Emergency aid to IDPs in partnership with local organizations

What is documented

37

educational institutions received equipment and auxiliary materials, reaching 6,977 students and staff, including 635 IDPs and 231 children with disabilities

as part of the “Building Back Better II: build, rebuild, improve” project

2024 · Annual report 2024, p. 18

Projects in this oblast

  • Emergency aid to IDPs in partnership with local organizations

    2023Project state: CompletedUkraine Humanitarian Fund (UHF/OCHA)

    Sub-grants to ten local organizations in Vinnytsia and Khmelnytskyi oblasts: humanitarian aid for displaced people plus development of the organizations themselves - supported by the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund.

  • Building Back Better II: build, rebuild, improve

    2023–2026Project state: CompletedPlan International Ukraine

    A three-year recovery project for educational facilities and collective shelters across four oblasts - together with Plan International Ukraine and funded by Germany (BMZ).

Vinnytsia oblast

Before/after of a sanitary room in a collective shelter, Zoziv village
Better shelter conditions - sanitary rooms fitted with hot water (Zoziv collective centre, Vinnytsia oblast) · Published by Hands of Friends, 17 Jul 2026
Period
2023–2026
Foundation’s role
Implementing partner
State
Project state: Completed
Documents
Document availability: Not publicly available - awaiting foundation materialNo per-oblast report supplied by the foundation yet

Vinnytsia oblast

2 projects

Oblast and project

Emergency aid to IDPs in partnership with local organizations

2023

Emergency aid to IDPs in partnership with local organizations

What is documented

14

sites repaired and modernised, including 4 roofs, 2 catering blocks and 1 children's swimming pool; procurement of equipment completed for a further 15 institutions

as part of the “Building Back Better II: build, rebuild, improve” project

2025 · Annual report 2025, pp. 26-27

Projects in this oblast

  • Emergency aid to IDPs in partnership with local organizations

    2023Project state: CompletedUkraine Humanitarian Fund (UHF/OCHA)

    Sub-grants to ten local organizations in Vinnytsia and Khmelnytskyi oblasts: humanitarian aid for displaced people plus development of the organizations themselves - supported by the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund.

  • Building Back Better II: build, rebuild, improve

    2023–2026Project state: CompletedPlan International Ukraine

    A three-year recovery project for educational facilities and collective shelters across four oblasts - together with Plan International Ukraine and funded by Germany (BMZ).

Kirovohrad oblast

A computer room, a room with beanbags and a classroom with sewing machines
Furniture, tech and learning equipment for participating facilities · Published by Hands of Friends, 17 Jul 2026
Period
2023–2026
Foundation’s role
Implementing partner · Implementer, together with the community
State
Project state: Completed
Documents
Document availability: Not publicly available - awaiting foundation materialNo per-oblast report supplied by the foundation yet

Kirovohrad oblast

2 projects

Oblast and project

Building Back Better II: build, rebuild, improve

2023–2026

Building Back Better II: build, rebuild, improve

What is documented

19

educational institutions received current or capital repairs - for 6,482 students and staff, including 270 IDPs and 225 children with disabilities

as part of the “Building Back Better II: build, rebuild, improve” project

2024 · Annual report 2024, p. 18

Projects in this oblast

  • Building Back Better II: build, rebuild, improve

    2023–2026Project state: CompletedPlan International Ukraine

    A three-year recovery project for educational facilities and collective shelters across four oblasts - together with Plan International Ukraine and funded by Germany (BMZ).

  • A living center for IDPs in Dobrovelychkivka

    2023Project state: CompletedICF "Friends' Hands"

    Furniture, a children's corner, sports equipment and plumbing for a center housing displaced families.

Kharkiv oblast

Beneficiary registration by a team wearing UHF vests
Beneficiary registration during the winter project. · Published by Hands of Friends
Period
2023–2026
Foundation’s role
Lead · accountable · Implementing partner
State
Project state: Completed
Documents
Document availability: Public

Kharkiv oblast

2 projects

Oblast and project

Winter Resilience 2025–2026

2025–2026

Winter Resilience 2025–2026

Projects in this oblast

  • Winter Resilience 2025–2026

    2025–2026Project state: CompletedUkraine Humanitarian Fund (UHF)

    Support for the most vulnerable people in frontline areas of Donetsk and Kharkiv regions during winter: solid fuel, heating utility payment support, winter non-food items and clothing. Implemented with NGO Enlightening Initiative with support from the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund (UHF/OCHA).

  • Access to education in the de-occupied territories of Kharkiv and Mykolaiv oblasts

    2023–2024Project state: CompletedPlan International

    Restoring damaged schools, six distance-learning centres and winter support for families with children in communities liberated in 2022 - with Plan International, funded by the City Council of Madrid.

Cherkasy oblast

Renovated canteen and new kitchen equipment at Bahacheve Lyceum #1, before/after
The renovated canteen at Bahacheve Lyceum #1 - 187 children can now eat at once · Published by Hands of Friends, 17 Jul 2026
Period
2023–2026
Foundation’s role
Implementing partner
State
Project state: Completed
Documents
Document availability: Not publicly available - awaiting foundation materialNo per-oblast report supplied by the foundation yet

Cherkasy oblast

1 project

Oblast and project

Building Back Better II: build, rebuild, improve

2023–2026

Building Back Better II: build, rebuild, improve

What is documented

~UAH 28M

total value of works completed and equipment purchased in 2025

as part of the “Building Back Better II: build, rebuild, improve” project

2025 · Annual report 2025, p. 26

Projects in this oblast

  • Building Back Better II: build, rebuild, improve

    2023–2026Project state: CompletedPlan International Ukraine

    A three-year recovery project for educational facilities and collective shelters across four oblasts - together with Plan International Ukraine and funded by Germany (BMZ).

«When we learned that from 1 September we had to feed over 360 children for free, we realised: with the old canteen it was simply impossible. It hadn't been renovated in almost 60 years.»
Serhii Shcherbynaprincipal of Bahacheve Lyceum #1, Cherkasy oblast

Mykolaiv oblast

Photo pending
The foundation has not supplied an approved photograph for this oblast yet.
Period
2023–2024
Foundation’s role
Implementing partner
State
Project state: Completed
Documents
Document availability: Not publicly available - awaiting foundation materialNo per-oblast report supplied by the foundation yet

Mykolaiv oblast

1 project

Oblast and project

Access to education in the de-occupied territories of Kharkiv and Mykolaiv oblasts

2023–2024

Access to education in the de-occupied territories of Kharkiv and Mykolaiv oblasts

Projects in this oblast

Kherson oblast

Photo pending
The foundation has not supplied an approved photograph for this oblast yet.
Period
2024
Foundation’s role
Implementing partner
State
Project state: Completed
Documents
Document availability: Not publicly available - awaiting foundation materialNo per-oblast report supplied by the foundation yet

Kherson oblast

1 project

Oblast and project

Winter support for families with children in Kherson oblast

2024

Winter support for families with children in Kherson oblast

Projects in this oblast

  • Winter support for families with children in Kherson oblast

    2024Project state: CompletedPlan International

    Warm clothing kits for children and adolescents from families affected by the hostilities and the Kakhovka dam disaster - in the Kherson and Chornobaivka communities, with Plan International.

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Oblasts, projects and sources
OblastPeriodProjectsFoundation’s roleSourceState
Donetsk oblast2025–2026Lead · accountable · Implementing partner · The foundation's own programmeOCHA CBPF - official IATI record (activity 36997) (opens on another organisation’s site)Project state: Ongoing
Khmelnytskyi oblast2023–2026Implementing partnerEmergency aid to IDPs in partnership with local organizationsProject state: Completed
Vinnytsia oblast2023–2026Implementing partnerEmergency aid to IDPs in partnership with local organizationsProject state: Completed
Kirovohrad oblast2023–2026Implementing partner · Implementer, together with the communityBuilding Back Better II: build, rebuild, improveProject state: Completed
Kharkiv oblast2023–2026Lead · accountable · Implementing partnerOCHA CBPF - official IATI record (activity 36997) (opens on another organisation’s site)Project state: Completed
Cherkasy oblast2023–2026Implementing partnerBuilding Back Better II: build, rebuild, improveProject state: Completed
Mykolaiv oblast2023–2024Implementing partnerAccess to education in the de-occupied territories of Kharkiv and Mykolaiv oblastsProject state: Completed
Kherson oblast2024Implementing partnerWinter support for families with children in Kherson oblastProject state: Completed

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