The Rinat Akhmetov Foundation (former Foundation for Development of Ukraine) is a non-profit organization established on July 15, 2005http://www.dtek.com/en/media-centre/press-releases/details/foundation-for-development-of-ukraine-and-dtek-initiate-the-towns-of-lvov-burshtyn-and-dobrotvor-to-join-the-telemedicine-social-project" by Rinat Leonidovich Akhmetov, a Ukrainian businessman. The previous name of the organization was Foundation for the "Development of Ukraine". Mission of the Foundation is: "Work for people by eliminating the causes of burning social problems; implementing the best practices of Ukraine and other countries, developing unique system solutions; obtaining the optimal result with every project and action". Foundation has two offices functioning in Kyiv and Donetsk, Ukraine.
History
The Foundation was created by SCM Holdings as part of the implementation of its corporate social responsibility policy. Before March 2008, the Foundation for Development of Ukraine functioned as SCM Group's corporate charitable foundation. Since March 19, 2008, the Foundation for Development of Ukraine has been operating as a private charity of Rinat Akhmetov, the main shareholder of SCM Group, while remaining SCM's permanent partner in the implementation of various projects in the field of charity.
In 2014, the Foundation initiated its largest program, Rinat Akhmetov Humanitarian Center, to assist residents of Donbas who suffered from the armed conflict. During six years, the Foundation focused all of its resources on helping Donbass civilians affected by the armed conflict.13 РОКІВ ДОБРА ТА МИЛОСЕРДЯ. 15 ЛИПНЯ – РІЧНИЦЯ СТВОРЕННЯ ФОНДУ РІНАТА АХМЕТОВА Over 16 years of its work, the Foundation helped eight million people survive, three and a half million of them received help in Donbas in the framework of the program Rinat Akhmetov Humanitarian Center.Фонд Ріната Ахметова: допомогти мільйонам українців In March 2021, the Foundation teamed up with British experts and made a survey of the social impact from the project Food Assistance to Population.The social value of humanitarian aid in Donbass The social value of the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation's help to beneficiaries is worth more than $1 billion.Фонд Ріната Ахметова провів лекцію про сучасну методологію оцінки впливу благодійної допомоги
In 2017, the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation ranked the first among the Top 5 private charitable foundations of Ukraine.Фонд Рината Ахметова возглавил рейтинг частных благотворительных организаций Украины In addition, for many years, the Foundation has remained the best-known charitable organization in Ukraine and a leader in providing humanitarian aid. According to a survey by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS), this is the opinion the majority of Ukrainians expressed – 95% of population.Опитування КМІС: Фонд Ріната Ахметова – лідер української благодійності During the KIIS survey, almost half of the country's citizens named the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation the largest charitable organization in Ukraine.Знання та оцінка благодійної діяльності Фонду Ріната Ахметова
In February 2022, with the beginning of a new phase of the war between Russia and Ukraine, the Foundation focused its efforts on humanitarian aid to Ukraine and Ukrainians. This included food assistance packages for population and medicines for public hospitals.Ахметов направляє 150 млн гривень на допомогу Україні From the outbreak of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Foundation provided more than 500,000 units of medicines to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.Фонд Ріната Ахметова передав для Києва та Донбасу понад 500 тис. одиниць медикаментів
Mission of the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation The mission of the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation is to help people in Ukraine and create opportunities to become better and live better using the Foundation's own achievements and global experience of philanthropy. For the sake of the future.Місія та цінності
Key activity areas and projects Program Rinat Akhmetov – Saving Lives Within the framework of the program Rinat Akhmetov – Saving Lives, for many years, the Foundation has been implementing large-scale projects aiming to provide systematic support to public healthcare.За 15 років благодійності Фонд Ріната Ахметова допоміг вижити 5 млн осіб
Fighting COVID-19 in Ukraine In February 2020, in the framework of the program Rinat Akhmetov – Saving Lives, the Foundation created a project Fighting COVID-19 in Ukraine. Rinat Akhmetov spent ₴500 million to fight the coronavirus. This is the largest contribution of one philanthropist to the public healthcare sector of Ukraine over the time of the country's independence.
#ThankDoctors In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Foundation together with Ukraine TV channel launched a special national project #ThankDoctors. Its main goal is to tell the public about the daily feats of doctors fighting for the lives of their patients affected by COVID-19.#ДякуємоМедикам: національна кампанія Фонду Ріната Ахметова про тих, хто стоїть на варті життя в пандемію
200 Ambulances for Ukraine In early July 2019, on the personal decision of Rinat Akhmetov, the Foundation began the implementation of a large-scale project 200 Ambulances for Ukraine.Проекту Фонду Ріната Ахметова "200 швидких для України" виповнилося два роки: що вдалося змінити Within the project's framework, public healthcare facilities in all the regions of the country received specially configured vehicles. Their fleet included vehicles of three configurations: ambulances for adult patients, resuscitation vehi-cles for new-borns and off-road or cross-country ambulance vehicles designed to run in moun-tainous areas and hard-to-reach settlements. These 200 special-purpose vehicles will enable doctors to save more than one million people annually.
#RAKNEVYROK In early October 2021, the Foundation together with VOGUE magazine and with the support from TSUM Kyiv shopping centre launched a project #RAKNEVYROK.#РАКНЕВИРОК: історії перемог над раком, що надихають Its main task is to show, using the example of real-life stories of its heroines, that life after the di-agnosis is possible and cancer can definitely be defeated. #RAKNEVYROK became a continua-tion of the program CANCER CAN BE CURED that the Foundation launched in 2008. It became the first and largest program in Ukraine to provide help to adult cancer patients. In particular, this help included the purchase of some diagnostic equipment for cancer clinics in Ukraine, the purchase of equipment for complex surgical operations, the launch of a mobile women's health consultation, and much more. In the framework of the program, the Foundation helped to save one million lives of Ukrainians. Almost one-fourth of all Ukrainian citizens have access to modern diagnostic equipment the Foundation provided to public healthcare institutions in the countryПроєкт #РАКНЕВИРОК Фонду Ріната Ахметова: історії українок, що перемогли хворобу
Mobile Women's Health Consultation In 2012, the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation purchased and equipped accordingly a mobile health diagnostics complex unique for Ukraine. The Mobile Women's Health Consultation for the National Cancer Institute is a specially configured 18-meter long vehicle built according to a European model to be used for comprehensive examination of women's reproductive system organs. This mobile clinic has two specialized rooms – a gynaecology room (with an ultrasonic diagnostics de-vice, a colposcope, and equipment for collecting cytological material) and a mammology room where women undergo mammography (breast X-ray examination). On February 4, 2022, the Foundation and the National Cancer Institute signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to join their efforts for higher level of cancer prevention and diagnostics in Ukraine.Фонд Ріната Ахметова та Національний інститут раку уклали Меморандум про співпрацю
Target Assistance This first systematic program of the Foundation became operational in January 2006 and aimed at supporting people who found themselves in difficult life circumstances and in need of urgent medical treatment. Often such help to a particular person grew into broader assistance to entire institutions. Many of the Foundation's activity areas have grown out of this program. They then developed into separate projects and are now part of the program Rinat Akhmetov for Children. These are the projects Rehabilitation of Injured Children, Medications for Children, Healthy Heart, and I Can Hear Now.Перша партія швидких від Фонду Ріната Ахметова вирушила в регіональні лікарні
Program Rinat Akhmetov – Here to Help The Foundation's largest program Rinat Akhmetov – Here to Help was launched in 2014. Its aim is to help civilians from Donbas affected by the armed conflict. According to a survey of the Foundation's social impact conducted by the British company Envoy Partnership, this program helped three and a half million people survive and prevented the humanitarian catastrophe in Donbas.За 15 років благодійності Фонд Ріната Ахметова допоміг вижити 5 млн осіб
The Museum of Civilian Voices In July 2021, the Foundation opened the first and only Museum of Civilian Voices in Ukraine to date (web site: civilvoicesmuseum.org). It is an unprecedented online project documenting the fate of ordinary people affected by the armed conflict in Donbas. Its goal is to document accounts or stories of the armed conflict's eyewitnesses as fully and impartially as possible. For now, the Museum has collected 13,000 personal stories. The goal is to collect and preserve 100,000 such stories by 2025.
Program Rinat Akhmetov for Children On November 16, 2001, Rinat Akhmetov visited pupils of boarding schools and orphanages for the first time. This date is considered the starting date of the annual Campaign Rinat Akhmetov for Children.Новорічна Акція "Рінат Ахметов – Дітям!": багаторічна традиція добра і радості Since 2008, the Foundation has been consistently working on the prevention of orphanhood and has become a leader in national child adoption. Overall, more than five million children received support under the program Rinat Akhmetov for Children."Рінат Ахметов – дітям": допомога Захару із Костянтинівки
Healthy Heart Since 2013, the Foundation has been helping children diagnosed with heart disease, and in 2017, this area developed into a separate project Rinat Akhmetov for Children. Healthy Heart. The Foundation cooperates with the country's leading clinics. Doctors remedy the disease by means of a special implant – an occluder. This is the most modern and non-traumatic method of treatment after which a young patient can be released home in a few days. In addition, the project itself enabled doctors to master modern methods of heart disease treatment. To date, 126 operations have been performed.Як Фонд Ріната Ахметова допоміг дітям з вадою серця
I Can Hear Now The Foundation has been helping children with hearing impairments since 2007. The project Rinat Akhmetov for Children. I Can Hear Now has been active since 2018. Thanks to the project, more than 200 boys and girls received high-sensitivity hearing aids (earphones) adaptable to children's individual needs. These devices allow them to develop in a full-fledged manner and be on par with their healthy peers.«Рінат Ахметов – Дітям. Тепер я чую»: подарувати диво для маленької Мілани
Rehabilitation of Injured Children