Travis Farral, the president of the Stronger for Ukraine, has visited Ukraine multiple times, including during the war, and knows from first hand experience the terror you feel when the air raid sirens go off. When you know it’s not a drill, when you know for a fact there are, in fact, ballistic missiles heading in your direction.
While collaborating with other charities, Travis noticed that each of those were very selective in the type of supplies they were willing to assist with. That led him to creating Stronger for Ukraine, where life saving supplies are not limited to just medicine. Sometimes, it’s a drone that sees what people can’t see. Sometimes it’s a tablet to operate the drone. Sometimes it’s an EcoFlow power station to provide electricity when it matters.
Ruslan (Rafael) Sorak has been a priest of Ukrainian Orthodox Church over 20 years. When he was the priest of the Church of St. Andrew the First-Called, starting in 2014, he collaborated with the public organization Army SOS Kirovograd (now called Army SOS Kropyvnytskyi). They raised money and collected food for the military, and also dried vegetables to make dry borscht. They also helped the Angel of Life Foundation raise funds for children with cancer.
Natalia Berezovska started volunteering at a local charity immediately when the war broke out. She donated her time and money helping sort through medical and humanitarian supplies that were sent to Ukraine.