Essential Humanitarian Aid

May 2022 • Boca Helps Ukraine calls on the local community to donate enough non-perishable essentials to fill a 40-foot container with 25,000 cubic feet of humanitarian aid.

Boca Helps Ukraine secured a donation drop off site in Boca Raton so that people could donate nonperishable foods, hygiene products, diapers, baby formula and other essential items.

The container was filled with more than $60,000 worth of humanitarian aid and it shipped out in early June. Once it clears customs, the Ukrainian postal service will distribute the donations to people living in the direst areas.  

“It started on day one with one box, and then soon enough, we could barely move in this sea of boxes,” Mariya Kemper said. “A ton of volunteers came in from the community, from my synagogue, from churches, from schools. We loaded a 40-foot container in two days.”  

People in need are receiving our humanitarian aid

Our humanitarian aid arrived on the ground in Odesa, Ukraine in late July. Essential items were delivered to a shelter that houses refugees from Russian occupied Kherson. Other aid was distributed by UkrPoshta in the eastern part of Ukraine.