CHARITY FOUNDATION

Together with UNITED24 and the Army of Drones we were raising 1 million hryvnias for a Ukrainian-made R18 UAV system – even before we started our fundraising, these ‘birds’ had already destroyed over 100 units of russian machinery worth over 130 million dollars. The R18 can stay in the air for about 40 minutes, cover a distance of up to 10 km and carry about 5 kg of explosives. The complex includes two octocopters and a ground station. We joined the initiative by releasing themed T-shirts and sweaters: 400 UAH from the sale of the former, as well as 1000 UAH from the sale of the latter were transferred for the cause. We completed the fundraising with a bang!

In the summer of 2022, we started working with the Come Back Alive Foundation and launched a fundraising campaign to buy a Leleka-100 UAV – it conducts aerial reconnaissance and patrols the area in real time and transmits accurate geographic coordinates to our military. We donated a part of the proceeds from the sale of each T-shirt to the Come Back Alive Foundation, and in the first 20 days alone, we managed to raise UAH 511,500 – that’s even more than planned.

In the spring of 2023, together with the Serhiy Prytula Foundation, we raised UAH 500,000 to protect one of the Air Defence Forces’ anti-aircraft missile systems from russian Lancet UAVs with special telescopic masts. And while our guys and girls from the Air Defence were protecting our cities, you were so eager to defend them that you collected as much as UAH 616,800. You fell in love with our Heavenly Gods T-shirts so much that you still buy them, and we still send 200 UAH from each T-shirt sale to the Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation.

Since the first days of the full-scale invasion, over 500 Plast members have joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Thousands of the organisation’s members from all over the world are working tirelessly for our victory; medicines, cars, ambulances and a lot of supplies are being sent to Ukraine from everywhere where Plast branches exist. We couldn’t stand aside, so we released themed limited edition hoodies to raise funds for 10 cars for the soldiers belonging to Plast organization. 100% of the profits from the sale of limited edition hoodies and unique chevrons with the names and numbers of the huts were donated for the vehicles that are already helping the Plast members at the frontline.

Can you imagine that Southern Ukraine was home to the world’s largest population of pink pelicans? Every summer, about 30,000 pelicans and hundreds of other rare bird species gathered in the Tuzly Estuaries National Nature Reserve. A few decades ago, there were less than 10,000 pelicans in the whole world! However, people were causing trouble with their own hands, filling up the channels and destroying the ecosystem of the estuaries. Together with the park’s employees, we decided to restore the channels ourselves and buy a Warynski 415 excavator to plough those channels.

‘It’s better to soar into the sky like a falcon just once than to live in a yoke forever’ is a quote from a favourite song of our friend and fellow Artem Dymyd, or Kurka (‘Hen’), as everyone called him. He contributed to the creation of Aviatsiya Halychyny, and when working together with us, he became interested in skydiving. He “soared into the sky like a falcon” so many times we cannot count, and at the beginning of the full-scale war he sacrificed his life so that we would never ‘live in a yoke’. Together with the Ukrainian Catholic University and Plast, we established a scholarship in Artem Dymyd’s name for students who are Plast members – all proceeds from the T-shirt with his favourite quote went to the scholarship fund named after our friend

UCU students once organised a fundraising campaign to buy a hearing aid for a young man from Crimea, Oleh Rezanov, whose pen name is Yizhak. Oleh Rezanov loves classical music, but because of his hearing impairment he couldn’t enjoy it to the fullest. We couldn’t ignore such an initiative, so together with Dodo socks we joined the campaign – Aviatsiya’s beautiful T-shirts and our fellow Dodo socks were sold so actively that in a few months Oleh was already enjoying a concert by the Lviv Philharmonic!