Online Registry

March 2022 - Boca Helps Ukraine came together to aid in the relief efforts and launched an online registry to fill a plane with critical medical and humanitarian aid.

When Mariya Kemper, founder of Boca Helps Ukraine, saw her fellow Ukrainians holding out against all odds, she knew that she had to help. She quickly reached out to friends and contacts inside Ukraine to see what they needed. Then with the help of a longtime friend who is the head of the Ukrainian postal service, Mariya was able to figure out the logistics of how to get supplies on cargo planes and delivered from the United States to Ukraine.  

She enlisted the help of her friends Summer Faerman and Brittany Suarez. Together, they created an Amazon wish list, which allowed purchased items to be delivered directly to a facility in New Jersey, where the supplies were put on pallets and loaded onto planes. With the generous donations of the Boca Raton community and beyond, they were able to send more than $30,000 in medical supplies to Ukraine. 

Mariya Kemper, Founder Boca Helps Ukraine

Summer Faerman, director of the TLC Program at B'nai Torah Congregation in Boca Raton, and Brittany Suarez of Grace Community Church.