Evacuation from Frontline Territories

Our Frontline Evacuation efforts is our primary humanitarian direction, in which we have had the greatest impact in this crisis so far. We have evacuated an ever-growing total of 33,000 civilians from frontline areas of active shelling (“red zones”) by our courageous team of Help People evacuation drivers, and additionally have evacuated over 1,400 more Ukrainian civilians from Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory. Help People NGO regularly evacuates members of the civilian population of Ukraine that find themselves unable to independently escape from the area of active hostilities created by the intense daily military combat actions of the defending Ukrainian armed forces and the invading Russian armed forces participating in the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War. Many more civilians in the red zones are still requesting our evacuation services to escape the daily lethal danger of living in the frontline regions, where they face a wide variety of threats, including endless Russian artillery shelling, machine gun fire, the complete stoppage of municipal services like gas/power and the freezing Ukrainian winter. 

Help People NGO’s recipients of assistance (war-affected civilians primarily residing in the frontline districts of Kherson, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk oblasts) contact our call center requesting our no-cost charity evacuation services from these “red zones” of active shelling/combat, in order to enable them to successfully escape these frontline areas to safer regions of Ukraine where they may freely exercise their civil rights and their most important human right: the right to life itself.

Every week, our call center in Kyiv statistically receives approximately 100 new requests for evacuation from civilians trapped near the active military actions of the Ukrainian and Russian armies. This active frontline has produced hundreds of thousands of casualties and the complete devastation of entire towns and cities, reduced to rubble by the most intense artillery bombardments since the Second World War. In the fall of 2023, our call center received several thousand new requests for civilian evacuation; about half of these calls have yet to be fulfilled and new evacuation requests regularly come in. Sometimes, the volume of incoming calls is significant enough that our call center operators struggle to keep up. With your vital donation in this humanitarian direction, we will save many more lives currently begging for salvation. 

Based on our calculations, the average cost to evacuate a single person from a frontline “red zone” is ~$40.71. Through our 22 months of experience in these evacuation efforts, we have developed our routes meticulously and carefully, resulting in near-daily evacuation missions which have evacuated a total of 34,100+ civilians in Ukraine to date. We greatly hope to continue to widen our impact with your support, as desperate calls continue to come into our Kyiv office from civilians in war-torn communities in the east and south, pleading for evacuation from frontline areas. Do not believe for a moment that your small donation will not save a real human life. We need your help in order to continue this vital work rescuing and preserving civilian lives in the midst of this ongoing full-scale war. Our evacuation work continues… will you join us?