Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, volunteering, including corporate volunteering, has become increasingly popular in Ukraine. More and more compassionate people and work teams are joining socially useful projects on a voluntary basis. Corporate volunteering has many benefits, because…
This man can easily knock you down with a powerful throw or a good joke.
Vitaliі Krokhmalіuk, an active volunteer with B50, trains children and adults in a fight club in his spare time and teaches them martial arts. He is also a very kind person and a lawyer who works with non-profit organizations.
He is a person who pushes the development of science and highlights promising technologies. Outside of work, he coordinates volunteers and conducts analytical and statistical activities at B50.
His studies at the History Faculty and his engineer parents taught Oleksandr Tishura to be thorough in everything from analyzing a research project to organizing aid for the victims. His attention to detail has already helped systematize many organizational processes at B50. And there is still so much more to come.
Before the war, she considered herself a private person, and chose her social circle very carefully, but now she admits that communication with B50 volunteers helps her emotionally in difficult moments.
Is he a real philosopher or a real troll?
This is the question that comes to mind after a day of volunteering in Moshchun with our activist Pavlo Kulinskyi.
He is an IT professional who is used to looking for bugs in the system. He believes that it's time to ask difficult questions. He also advocates relying on his own principles and values.
When was the last time you corrected your worldview?
Svitlana Rudokvas, content manager of the Ukrainian-language B50 Facebook group and editor of the website, has the courage to admit her mistakes and the strength to correct them now.
"Before" the 24th, she was an editor of economic texts and did not believe in war. And now she mostly writes about social issues - the victories of B50 volunteers. She combines clearing rubble and helping with organizational activities with raising twins and weaving camouflage nets.
Have you ever been to one of Okean Elzy's (Океан Ельзи) big concerts? It's likely that you heard them perform thanks to B50's active volunteer Andrii Karpenko.
For more than 25 years, he has been providing great sound at festivals, concerts, and events. He is used to traveling on business trips and dealing with heavy music speakers. That's why he considers carrying buckets of bricks on his volunteer trips to Moshchun an easy task.
He usually creates buildings, but now he has to dismantle their ruins.
Our active volunteer Artem Onyshchuk is an architect by profession. He designed houses, developed the interior of several halls at Okhmatdyt and dreamed of building an analog of London City in the capital.
However, 2022 put this on hold. Architects are now at a low start, waiting for the Victory, which will give rise to a great rebuilding of Ukraine.
Leaving the past in Donetsk to build a new life among "his own people".
Andrii Mitin, an active volunteer with B50, has already faced combat twice. In 2014, they forced him to leave his hometown and go into the unknown. And in 2022, they gave him the impetus to start volunteering regularly.
As part of the B50 community, Andrii helped residents of Borodianka, Moshchun, Makariv, Horenka, Irpin... Although he is a white-collar worker by lifestyle. However, it turned out that the volunteer can repair a fence, quickly climb on the roof, install a window, and drive a wheelbarrow with bricks.
