Update from PK Ukraine

Project Kesher continues to provide daily support to Ukrainians:

• Providing emergency response to women in need, information and consultation on issues including evacuation of children, families, people with disabilities, and the elderly, as well as food, medicine, accommodations, and transfer to temporary safety.

• Making emergency cash grants to displaced women, heads of multigenerational households who have lost everything. PKU has opened a new charitable fund, The Women’s Opportunity Fund in Ukraine, to expand this grant-making program pursuant to Ukrainian law.

• Hosting free webinars for current and soon to be mothers with psychologists, parenting mentors, perinatal nurses, and other professionals. Through this program, professionals will provide essential information, answer questions, and offer support.

• Making community cash grants to pay for food, groceries, and accommodations for refugees in transition (often traveling east, or to a border, in need of rest and safety on the journey.

• Convening global leaders and PK Ukraine team on the ground in Ukraine and Europe, to collaborate on responses to issues impacting Ukrainian women, like gender violence.

• Gathering women to celebrate Jewish life and traditions, to empower and sustain each other, to build resilience and find support.

Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault

Sexual violence is being used a tool of war against Ukrainian women.
As the reports continue to surface, Project Kesher is partnering with global and grassroots organizations to create and disseminate appropriately assembled rape kits and Plan B through the military. Additional funding is needed for this program. For more information, email projectkesher@projectkesher.org