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Success Stories
For most transgender women in Ukraine, there is no way to cross the border to Poland or other countries: Their formal documents identify them as men, so the government prohibits them from leaving the country. But, with Americares help, this group does receive specialized health care – from an ambulance that brings LGBTQ+ care to Lviv. “Since they cannot come to us, we decided to send our ambulance with paramedics and a nurse to deliver medical help to Lviv, Ukraine,” says Anna Szymkowiak, the transgender leader of Acceptance Foundation, Americares Poland-based partner, which owns and operates the ambulance. Americares first supported Acceptance Foundation in 2022, when Acceptance used the ambulance to evacuate people who needed medical care during transport from Ukraine – their only route to safety. In Poznań, Poland, the ambulance serves as a mobile health center for refugees staying in temporary residences, such as hotels. The clinic operated...
Danish organization Levitate hosted a prosthetics sports event along with Unbroken Rehabilitaion Center (both partner organizations of Direct Relief). Levitate specializes in creating prosthetics sports gear that’s affordable, durable, and easy to use; and now Levitate will be able to help Ukrainian amputees get on their feet. With funding from Direct Relief, their team will supply running blades and other prostheses to patients at the country’s largest rehabilitation centers, Unbroken and Superhumans, as well as other partners identified throughout the program. The Levitate team will also personally do the training, fitting, and adjusting of prosthetics for the patients in Ukraine. The founder of Levitate, Lasse Madsen, is an amputee himself and had to overcome a considerable series of financial and emotional hurdles to get the gear he needed, including time-consuming appointments and costly equipment that often failed to deliver on quality. He and his team are determined to make the...
In March 2022, as Russian attacks intensified in Ukraine, Viktoria Mariniuk and her 13-year-old daughter fled Kharkiv and crossed the border into Slovakia, carrying only a suitcase between them.