R2P Turns 11!

February 1, 2024

Our story began in 2013, when there were only 90 people in the team, and we worked in only 4 cities in Ukraine.

Today, there are 1,400 of us. We work in all corners of Ukraine: in villages near the front line, remote hromadas, big cities, and even in Poland. Wherever we are, we consistently fulfil our mission to support those who need our advice and assistance.

Over the years, we have grown in every sense and significantly increased our capacity to fulfil our mission of helping people. In 2023 alone, we helped over 1 million people in Ukraine and abroad! 

Oleksandr Galkin, President of R2P

I am grateful to the team and partners — it is impossible to imagine R2P without you. I wish to thank everyone who has supported us on this long journey. Thanks to you, we can help everyone who needs it.

Looking back, we can see how many important things we have managed to do in our 11th year of work:

  • opened a representative office in Poland to assist Ukrainians who have found refuge there;
  • returned to Donetska oblast to be closer to the people who needed our help;
  • launched the work of crisis response teams, the first of which travelled to the Khersonska oblast to assist the victims of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station explosion;
  • launched a programme to develop practical skills and increase the economic inclusion of IDPs and the affected population, and trained 139 people;
  • published the Psychologist in Touch book, a collection of educational, practical and therapeutic texts about life, stress resistance and human recovery in times of war;
  • launched the Home Care service: now our social workers take care of people with disabilities and the elderly who, due to their condition, are partially or entirely unable to care for themselves;
  • launched the Social Change Workshop, a methodological centre for professional training;
  • conducted a unique training course for stateless persons in Kyivska oblast, which has no analogues in Ukraine;
  • carried out the first mapping of refugee communities in Ukraine;
  • started to develop the area of legal assistance to those who suffered gender-based violence;
  • conducted an all-Ukrainian campaign for schoolchildren to combat GBV;
  • provided cash assistance for rent with the support of UNHCR, helping families who were forced to leave their hometowns in search of a new home.

We continue to defend the rights of our beneficiaries, provide the necessary assistance in the most remote hromadas and support all those who need it in these difficult times.