Natali
A crucial member of the foundation’s team is Natali. She was born and raised in Kherson and later moved to Kyiv. In April 2022, she sent her two children with their grandmother to Spain and actively engaged in volunteer work.
This wasn’t new for Natali, as she had been providing residents of front-line zones with essential supplies—clothing, medicine, and food—since 2014.
In early June 2022, she joined the charitable foundation and became heavily involved in evacuating civilians from areas under fire. After the de-occupation of Kherson, within five days, she evacuated four buses with 227 people, helping to arrange their accommodation and further transportation to Poland.
In total, Natali has evacuated more than two thousand people from Kherson, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Donbas, covering over 100,000 kilometers. She escorted children from front-line areas to free children’s camps so they could have a break from the constant shelling. Additionally, each trip also became an opportunity to deliver humanitarian aid to people who could not or did not want to leave their homes.
«I want people to understand the importance and danger of volunteer work. If civilians took their own safety more seriously and immediately agreed to evacuate from areas under fire, it would make the military’s job in front-line zones easier and reduce the number of casualties among both volunteers and civilians», – Natali emphasizes.
Another area of Natali’s responsibility is assisting the families of fallen soldiers. She provides them with clothing, food, hygiene products, and medicine.
Natali has an official status as a Volunteer and does not plan to stop until Ukraine achieves Victory.
