Instead of gifts, first aid kits and medical training Ukrainian soldiers

Kiev. March 26. — Once entering the corporate charity program of Raiffeisen Bank Aval was the decision of the Board of financial institutions to submit a budget intended for gifts to the 8th of March, all-Ukrainian charitable Foundation “Unity” for the program “the Protection of patriots». In General, the amount of charitable aid from the Bank for this program is 350 thousand UAH.

Recall that the Bank had a budget scheduled on Christmas gifts: the money saved by this expenditure was directed to the purchase of medical equipment for Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Zaporozhye and Berdyansk medical institutions, which treated the wounded from zone anti-terrorist operation.

the Program «the Protection of patriots” teaches Ukrainian soldier courses soldier rescue and combat medic provides first aid kits to anyone who is trained, and each trained paramedic — backpacks combat medic. Today medical training in this program were more than 14 thousand people. On the implementation of this initiative is staffed by professional certified instructors who train soldiers in first aid techniques, developed specifically for the military. The programme is being implemented by the world Congress of Ukrainians, the Organization of defense of four freedoms of Ukraine (NY, USA), the Union of Ukrainian Organizations in Australia, the Union of Ukrainians in great Britain and the all-Ukrainian charitable Foundation “Unity” with the support of many international donors domestic ones.