Our Purpose

Stefania will be providing to the people in Ukraine two humanitarian aid projects. The first will be to provide new medical equipment for use by surgeons and nurses treating seriously wounded patients in Ukrainian hospitals. The second will involve the development of Mental Health Support Services which will be delivered online using a cloud-based technology platform.

We are starting Stefania by initially focusing on the needs of hospitals but will also be working on developing mental health support services and focusing on low severity needs and preventative strategies. 

We will be listening to the surgeons and nurses on what they consider to be the most important equipment that will help them to save lives. During the early stages the level of fundraising will start relatively low and grow slowly as we gain momentum with our fundraising. We must ask you to be patient. We understand and sympathise the urgency that exists to fix the shortages and low quality of equipment. 

You have our assurance that we shall work as hard and as fast as we can. We will start with a Pilot to enable us to make sure the processes we are implementing are working well. For example, the Government has approved our plans as long as we comply to some rigorous requirements. For example, ensuring we safely deliver the equipment we purchase. That we deliver the correct items to each. That we take precautions to avoid the risk of losses through theft or corruption. We must at all times respect the generous giving from donors execute the purchase and delivery of important equipment in a professional and responsible manner. 

All the equipment will be purchased new from England’s National Health Service (NHS) and at a later stage is likely to include high value products such as Sterilizing Units. Once we have built momentum and trained hospitals to use the NHS online catalogue (500,000 items) our objective is to empower the hospitals to specify the equipment that will satisfy their most urgent needs. This is where want to get to, but we need to tread carefully.

Stefania is being launched at the end of November 2024 and for the first few months the amount of money will start low and grow as we roll out the programme across the UK and Europe. 

Stefania is not being supported with funding from wealthy donors or charitable trusts. The success of Stefania will come from the generosity of individuals and institutions in the UK (churches, schools, local businesses, hospitals, universities and many other institutions) joining forces with the Ukrainian Refugee communities living in the UK and mainland Europe, and agreeing to donate the ‘price of a coffee’ each month in order create lasting change in Ukraine.