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About the Fund


SaveUA is an international Charity Fund established by farmers in the first days of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Our goal is to create a national food security system capable of withstanding any shocks and to help affected Ukrainians. 

Our main areas of activity:

  • Agricultural sector: we help in the restoration and development of agricultural enterprises affected by the war. We are working on programs to restore the national agricultural sector.
  • Food security: we provide food boxes with basic foodstuffs for IDP families and Ukrainians in the de-occupied and frontline areas who have become victims of Russian aggression.
  • Medicine: we provide vital medicines, medical supplies and equipment to medical institutions in Ukraine.
  • Safety and security: we provide special vehicles and the necessary professional equipment for search and rescue operations and humanitarian demining to the brigades of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.


Since the first days of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the foundation's team, with the support of our partners, has provided:

  • more than 10,000 tons of essential goods (food, hygiene products, etc.)
  • more than 85 thousand units of medicines and medical equipment, providing more than 70 medical institutions in 9 regions of Ukraine, as well as two electrosurgical generators and an operating lamp for surgeons to save as many lives as possible;
  • 19 specialized medical beds with mattresses for seriously ill patients in the neurological and trauma departments;
  • a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter ambulance for the Uman Central City Hospital, which can be used not only for transportation to medical facilities but also for resuscitation;
  • 21,000 water purification filters;
  • 870 tons of heating briquettes for Ukrainians in the frontline areas;
  • 33 modern special vehicles equipped with professional equipment for the SES of Ukraine;
  • and fed more than 2,000,000 Ukrainians in the frontline and de-occupied territories: vulnerable categories of the population, IDP families, large families, providing them with the necessary food for at least a week.
  • 21,000 day-old broiler chickens and 17,500 tons of feed;
  • 34 generators;
  • 28 units of Starlink terminals;
  • 5 units of fuel storage tanks;
  • 4000 agricultural grain sleeves;
  • 72 tons of fertilizers for agricultural enterprises in Kherson region;


Our work in 2024 was marked by the receipt of the highly important ED Certificate from NGOsource, which certifies that our foundation is a reliable partner that has undergone financial monitoring in accordance with the requirements for charitable organizations in the United States.

SaveUA Foundation was also included in the Forbes Top 50 Charities in Ukraine rating, as our team has implemented not only large humanitarian projects. In cooperation with the members of the Ukrainian Agri Council and with their support, we have jointly transferred more than 2,250 vehicles to our defenders.
 

Read more in the Foundation's 2023 report by the link .

Read more in the Foundation's report for 2024 by the link .


Parent organizations of the Foundation:

  • The Ukrainian Agri Council is the largest agricultural association in Ukraine, with 1,200 members and a land area of 3,500,000+ hectares; the main partner of the Fund;
  • Association of Milk Producers - unites 40% of dairy farms;
  • Аssociation of Ukrainian Pig Breeders - 60% of the industrial pork market.
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Founder

Andriy Dykun
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Foundation Board

Diana Dykun
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Lyubomyr Dykun
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Kornelis Huizinga
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Emmeke Vierhout
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Team

Vitaliy Nakonechny
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Sergii Maslov
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Rostyslav Zavoloka
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Oksana Molchanova
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Daria Shulha
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Viktoriia Skrypnyk
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Victoria Tretyakova
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Oleksandra Palamarenko
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Olena Gumenyuk
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Nataliia Pavlova
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Andrii Dykun is the founder of the SaveUA charity foundation.

With the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Andrii united the teams of the three largest agricultural associations into one charity foundation to help the affected Ukrainians and farmers whose farms were destroyed by the enemy. He started active international activities to attract donor support and partnership with the foundation. 

Andrii has a degree in agriculture. He has completed internships in leading food-producing countries: USA, Canada, China, the Netherlands, Germany, Israel, Brazil, Argentina. He founded the Association of Milk Producers (AMP), which includes 90% of dairy farms, according to the TOP-10 Most Productive Farms of Ukraine rating, and the Association of Pig Producers of Ukraine (“APPU”), which includes 60% of the industrial pork market. In 2015, he established the Ukrainian Agri Council (“UAC”), which unites more than 1 200 agricultural enterprises with a total land area of 3 500 000 hectares.

He is an experienced businessman, philanthropist, and public figure. His experience allowed him to effectively establish the SaveUA charity foundation, support Ukrainian farmers in the most difficult times, and provide food to more than 2 million people affected by the war. 

close Diana Dykun

In 2017, Diana and Andrii established the first and the only one agricultural lyceum in Ukraine. She considers it to be the second main project in her life, after her family – husband Andrii and two daughters.

Since 2008, she has been organizing the largest food and agricultural events in the CIS countries and Eastern Europe. Thus, in 2008 the first International Dairy Congress was initiated and conducted, then the Congress "Profitable Pig Farming", Agri Invest Forum, Kazakhstan Dairy Congress, the largest field demonstration of agricultural machinery in Ukraine "Clash of the Agrotitans”. Annually, these events gather more than 6,000 agricultural market participants from 20 countries of the world.

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He graduated from Uman State Agrarian University on specialty Manager for Foreign and Economic Activity. He has experience in management of more than 300 people, building up of companies "from scratch” creation of new products and its rapid introduction to the market, successful management of a group of companies with subsequent introduction of these companies to the international market. He holds the position of Vice-President of the Association of Milk Producers of Ukraine, adviser to the Minister of Agriculture of Ukraine, adviser to the deputy of Cherkasy Regional Council, and he is also a co-founder of the Public Union "Youth Organization “Future Farmers of Ukraine".

Lyubomyr's activities have always been accompanied by solving social problems on the ground, because business cannot exist outside of society. When russia launched a massive attack in February 2022, the ability to take care for the community helped to organize quickly the work of SAVE UA. Lyubomyr helped to launch the production of food sets in the town of Uman, organized the repair of dormitories for displaced people in nearby villages, launched a rehabilitation centre for them and provided schools with solid fuel boilers. Today, Lyubomyr is working on the implementation of the state recovery program: "Ukrainian Agrarian Marshall Plan" May-April 2022-2033.

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He was born in the Netherlands and graduated from Wageningen University with a degree in engineering and economics. He worked in Poland on farms growing potatoes and sugar beets. Subsequently, he took part in international projects and programs of Ukrainian experience and market study. In 2002, he became the Head of agricultural enterprise in Mankivka district, Cherkasy region, where he still works and lives with his family.

He went to the EU to inform European politicians about the war in Ukraine at the beginning of March 2022. He spoke in the European Parliament about the problems of Ukrainian agricultural sector because of russian invasion. He was looking for sponsors in Europe to deliver humanitarian aid to Ukraine.

close Emmeke Vierhout

She graduated from Wageningen University with a degree in agricultural production in tropical climates. The war postponed the obtaining of another specialty - philosophy. She helps her husband, Kornelis Huizinga, on the farm with her skills and knowledge. She has always been an active member of the Dutch Humanitarian Foundation "deleeuwkyiv.nl". With the first strikes of russian missiles on Ukraine in February, she started organizing humanitarian aid from the EU countries to Ukraine. The first truck with food and essential goods arrived in a few days.

close Vitaliy Nakonechny

Vitaliy Nakonechnyi is the head of the Save Ukraine Charity Foundation (SaveUA).

He has been practicing law in Ukraine since 2011 and has extensive experience in providing legal advice in the areas of taxation, investment, foreign economic activity, support during inspections by regulatory authorities and appealing their results in administrative and/or judicial proceedings. He also has experience in establishing and registering public associations, charitable foundations, amending their statutory documents and providing legal support for their core business.

On 29.03.2022, Vitaliy Nakonechnyi was appointed to the position of the Chairman of the Charitable Organization SaveUA, where he works to the present day.

 

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Serhiy Maslov - keeps accounting of all the goods and items that come to the foundation's warehouse from partners and donors. 

He joined the team of the SaveUA charity foundation from the first days of the war when he learned that a humanitarian headquarters had started working in Uman. His 9 years of experience as a distributor in the film industry and professional organizational skills enabled him to quickly and efficiently streamline all processes and launch the warehouse's logistics system from scratch.   

close Rostyslav Zavoloka

An entrepreneur from Uman with 18 years of experience, has his own grocery store. Since the beginning of the war, he decided to help the SAVE UA headquarters with his skills and knowledge. In the early days, he organized the supply of the headquarters from concerned citizens from the EU and the UK

close Oksana Molchanova

She graduated from the Pedagogical University in 2012 and started working in the foundation's team at the same time. She organized the largest agricultural conferences in Eastern Europe.

From the first days of the war, she started working for the foundation - she organized humanitarian aid for the residents of the occupied territories, participated in the work of the food headquarters.

Now Oksana communicates with international donors, works on raising funds to help her fellow citizens.

close Daria Shulha

Daria graduated from Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics. All organizational talent was discovered in the organization of agricultural events. Organization of conferences, forums and exhibitions for several thousand participants is not a problem for her. With the beginning of the war, she organized the process of receiving humanitarian aid at the headquarters warehouse in a matter of hours.

close Viktoriia Skrypnyk

Professional manager of agricultural events. Before the full-scale invasion, she organized large-scale agricultural exhibitions in the open field, where hundreds of types of agricultural machinery were presented, and the number of visitors exceeded 5 thousand people. Since the beginning of the foundation's activities, Viktoriia has been organizing the procurement of goods for tens of thousands of food sets that the foundation's team packs and distributes to Ukrainians affected by the war.

close Victoria Tretyakova

Victoria has a degree in economics. She graduated from the Agricultural University. Since 2008, she has been working in Andriy Dykun's team. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, when the foundation started its work, she has been working in the team of the Save UA foundation! She holds the position of chief accountant of the organization and controls all financial operations. Victoria is responsible for the correctness of the preparation and submission of financial and economic reports of the foundation's activities.

close Oleksandra Palamarenko

Graduated from Uman Agrarian University, then worked in a laboratory for milk quality and safety. Then she decided to pass on her knowledge to farmers. For two years, several hundred specialists from dairy farms have taken practical and theoretical courses at the training center. When the SAVE UA humanitarian headquarters in Uman was opened, Oleksandra was one of the first to contact international companies that produce equipment for dairy farms and involved them in helping Ukrainian farms affected by the fighting.

close Olena Gumenyuk

Olena graduated from Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University with a degree in English and literature.

She has 7 years of experience in organizing conferences and Field Days. In peacetime she worked with commercial companies and international organizations. With the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Olena joined the SAVE UA team. Now she applies the acquired knowledge and skills to attract assistance from international organizations.

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