NGO Slava Ukraini – overview of activities in July
In July, 1242 soldiers participated in PULSE or Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) training. Since May this year, 2524 soldiers have participated in the PULSE training and know how provide life-saving first aid on the battlefield. Trainings have been held in the following oblasts: Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Poltava, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Vinnytsia, Volhynia, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Khmelnytskyi, Kharkiv, Zhytomyr.
As per the cooperation agreement, Slava Ukraini supports PULSE with EUR 132 030 and aims to train 8100 soldiers. As a result of the TCCC training, the soldiers know how to provide life-saving first-aid techniques on the battlefield. It has been estimated that each soldier who has participated in the training may save lives of up to 10 comrades.
We visited MilSpray plant in Võru, Estonia to learn how camouflage pains are being produced. MilSpray camouflage paint, soon to be sent to Ukraine, is a spray rather than usual paste, so it can be applied quickly and efficiently when needed. Using camouflage is vital for the soldiers to be invisible for the enemy. With the help of Estonian Defence Forces we’ll send 24 000 cans of MilSpray camouflage paint to Ukraine in the beginning of August in order to protect the lives of Ukrainian soldiers.
We have been organizing the Tallinn warehouse and looking for the organizations who would need the items we still have in the warehouse. In cooperation with the National Defence Promotion Foundation we donated a large number of socks and mittens as well as some computers, phones, wheelchairs and crutches to a recently opened rehabilitation center for the soldiers near Chernihiv.
Organizational changes in NGO Slava Ukraini
Since July, NGO Slava Ukraini has been analyzing its activities and is working on setting more specific goals for the future. The decisions regarding the goals were taken in the beginning of August by the general assembly of the NGO.
We have been auditing and we’re now streamlining our work and decision making processes. The following documents have been created: accounting manual, purchasing manual, partnering policy, impact assessment framework and a proper document management system. These activities are needed to comply with the Code of Ethics of the NGOs.
The decisions adopted by the general assembly of NGO Slava Ukraini
The goal of activities of NGO Slava Ukraini was formulated and approved as follows: NGO Slava Ukraini is a non-profit organization that was founded in 2022 to act in public interest with the goal of supporting the armed forces and the civilian population of Ukraine with life-protecting and life-saving aid. To achieve the goals, NGO Slava Ukraini provides assistance to the armed forces of Ukraine in arranging medical activities in the frontline as well as skills, knowledge and tools to deal with the war damage.
Projects will be continued and (re)started in NGO Slava Ukraini in accordance with the goal that is described above.
It was agreed what steps to take to change the statute of the organization. Among other things it was agreed that the tasks of the general assembly, the council and the board will be described in the statute.
Changes in the statute are already being prepared, the general assembly will gather within a month.
Financial control mechanisms for the organization were agreed upon.
Donations
As of May 9th, the date when changes took place in the board of the organization, the amount of donations on the NGO’s accounts was about EUR 664 000.
Between May 9th and the end of July about EUR 41 000 were donated to the NGO. Criminal procedures are underway in Estonia and Ukraine to shed light on how the donations were used before March 2023.
NGO Slava Ukraini is a non-profit organization that was founded in 2022 to act in public interest with the goal of supporting the armed forces and the civilian population of Ukraine with life-protecting and life-saving aid. To achieve the goals, NGO Slava Ukraini provides assistance for the armed forces of Ukraine in arranging medical activities in the frontline as well as skills, knowledge and tools to deal with the war damage.