Rinat Akhmetov Foundation

[2] Mission of the Foundation is: "Work for people by eliminating the causes of burning social problems; implementing the best practices of Ukraine and other countries, developing unique system solutions; obtaining the optimal result with every project and action".

In 2014, the Foundation initiated its largest program, Rinat Akhmetov Humanitarian Center, to assist residents of Donbas who suffered from the armed conflict.

[5] In March 2021, the Foundation teamed up with British experts and made a survey of the social impact from the project Food Assistance to Population.

[8] In addition, for many years, the Foundation has remained the best-known charitable organization in Ukraine and a leader in providing humanitarian aid.

[9] During the KIIS survey, almost half of the country's citizens named the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation the largest charitable organization in Ukraine.

[13] Within the framework of the program Rinat Akhmetov – Saving Lives, for many years, the Foundation has been implementing large-scale projects aiming to provide systematic support to public healthcare.

[14] In February 2020, in the framework of the program Rinat Akhmetov – Saving Lives, the Foundation created a project Fighting COVID-19 in Ukraine.

[15] In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Foundation together with Ukraine TV channel launched a special national project #ThankDoctors.

[16] In early July 2019, on the personal decision of Rinat Akhmetov, the Foundation began the implementation of a large-scale project 200 Ambulances for Ukraine.

[17] Within the project's framework, public healthcare facilities in all the regions of the country received specially configured vehicles.

[18] In early October 2021, the Foundation together with VOGUE magazine and with the support from TSUM Kyiv shopping centre launched a project #RAKNEVYROK.

[21] This first systematic program of the Foundation became operational in January 2006 and aimed at supporting people who found themselves in difficult life circumstances and in need of urgent medical treatment.

According to a survey of the Foundation's social impact conducted by the British company Envoy Partnership, this program helped three and a half million people survive and prevented the humanitarian catastrophe in Donbas.

Within its framework, almost 4,500 children from Donetsk and Luhansk regions underwent health recovery and recuperation courses in summer camps.

Boys and girls participating in the program were taught to deal with their fears and mitigate anxiety[30] The project Your Superpower is a series of motivational meetings between famous and successful people and boarding schoolers or orphanage pupils.

Since December 2018, 10 ambassadors of the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation have held 41 motivational meetings in nine boarding schools of the Donetsk region.

This series is a new online format of the project that is primarily targeted at teenagers who need to invest a lot of effort in this life to realize their potential in a professional domain.

The project is a series of video courses helping teachers to master some advanced tools of distance learning based on online services, such as Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, Cisco Webex, Zoom, Class Dojo and Classtime.

The purpose of the educational series was to motivate schoolchildren isolated from their schoolmates due to the COVID lockdown to do sports individually and follow a healthy lifestyle.

The performers of the comedy TV project Mamahohotala Show Oleh Maslyuk and Yevhen Yanovych also took part in the series.

This general overview series in the format of a mini-interview explains how lung ventilators work, describes the functionality of this equipment's modern models, and gives an idea of how a person feels when connected to the device, as well as what doctors do with a patient and why.

[43] Since 2005, the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation has been implementing national-level projects aimed at addressing social challenges of the Ukrainian society.

The Center evacuated people from trouble spots, distributed humanitarian food packages and helped treat and rehabilitate the injured.

[77] From February 24 to June 1, 2022, it was reported that the Foundation, Rinat Akhmetov's businesses and FC Shakhtar donated UAH 2.4 billion to help Ukraine.

[78] As of June 3, 2022, the Foundation provided more than 600,000 units of medicines, more than 60,000 blood transfusion bags and over 187,000 food packages for Ukrainian people.

[79] Since the beginning of the full-scale war, the Foundation has also rendered psychological support to internally displaced persons from zones of military hostilities.

Support was rendered to victims and people whose relatives died in the blasts in Dnipropetrovsk,[81] at Zasyadko, Krasnolimanskaya,[82] Karl Marx,[83] Duvannaya[84] coal mines.