Field Notes

Updates from our work in Ukraine: people, places, deliveries, challenges, and progress.

First-hand reports and documentary photographs from Care4Ukraine’s work are collected here. These stories show both the scale of humanitarian need and the individual people and communities behind every delivery.

Latest field notes

  • First Bell Under Air-Raid Sirens

    First Bell Under Air-Raid Sirens

    September 1 is First Bell in Ukraine—the traditional beginning of the school year, when children bring flowers for their teachers and the youngest pupils enter their first classroom. This year, the ceremony in Kyiv was interrupted almost as soon as it began. Air-raid sirens followed overnight ballistic missile strikes, and children who had arrived dressed…

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  • Preparing Communities for a Harder Winter

    Preparing Communities for a Harder Winter

    The drone war over Ukraine is changing. Long-range attacks increasingly arrive in repeated daytime waves, keeping air-raid alerts active for hours and forcing communities to pause ordinary work again and again. Long alerts can stop activity across a city. Warehouses close, deliveries wait, and workers cannot safely travel or unload essential supplies. Even when a…

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