Every woman deserves a better future, where trauma no longer determines her life.
For the second year in a row, the Future for Ukraine Foundation has been helping Ukrainian women overcome the mental consequences of russia’s brutal military aggression against Ukraine and urging women not to be left alone with their pain.
Never betraying the principles of GIDNA — anonymity, safety, professionalism — we have been moving step by step and gaining the Ukrainian women’s trust and our partners’ loyalty. In 2024, we scaled up our activities in the Helping Women direction:
- Launched a new program of psychological assistance to women experiencing an uncertain loss;
- Expanded the GIDNA team from 10 to 26 qualified specialists;
- Gained the trust of more women and helped them improve their emotional state and psychological resilience.
Over 94% of women who sought help from the GIDNA project successfully completed a therapy session course.
Assistance for CRSV survivors (conflict-related sexual violence)
- 49 Ukrainian women underwent a free therapy course with a specialist that helped them regain lost pillars in life, learn to work with their own emotional states caused by the trauma of violence and feel their own value again.
- There are 300 individual and 20 group sessions.
- GIDNA specialists received 37 professional supervisions.
Activities to disseminate information and advocate for the CRSV topic:
- The FFU team participated in the My Sisters International Forum on the topic of post-traumatic growth of women affected by gender-based violence and sexual violence during the war.
- Together with opinion leaders, we launched the social initiative ‘Ty Gidna!’ that calls women not to remain silent about experiencing sexual violence.
- On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we held a series of educational broadcasts with CSO La Strada-Ukraine and the VETERANKA movement.
- Signed a memorandum with the NGO New Ukrainian Narratives.
Psychological assistance to women who are experiencing an indefinite loss — their relatives went missing in the war or are in captivity.
- 28 women completed a free psychological therapy course which includes 208 individual sessions and 40 group sessions.
- There are 14 women participants — wives, mothers, sisters, daughters of the AZOVSTAL defenders.
Media events:
- Held a press conference at Ukrinform with the participation of the Association of Azovstal Defenders’ Families and the Military Ombudsman's Office on the occasion of the new program launch to support women experiencing an unspecified loss.
- Received over 200 mentions of GIDNA in the media.
In 2024, the GIDNA project received funding from grantors and partners totaling over UAH 850,000.
- UAH 505,915.40 from the Medik8 British beauty brand;
- UAH 264,726.81 from the United Nations Women's Guild - Geneva;
- UAH 82,000 from the Roosh investment company
Project Partners
Medik8, Dobro.ua, Roosh, NUGA STUDIO, 6:19 tattoo studio, Yanis Stepanenko, the Good Day participants, WOG, CSO La Strada Ukraine, VETERANKA movement, Ukrinform, Association of Families of Azovstal Defenders, NGO New Ukrainian Narratives, Military Ombudsman’s Office, YurFem, SEMA, Right to Protection charity foundation, NGO MARTIN-CLUB, Teenergizer, Social Innovation Solutions, Posmishka charity fund, VONA hub, Fulcrum UA.
More than 20 show-biz stars and opinion leaders, including rapper Alyona Alyona, famous actress Dasha Malakhova, KAZKA soloist Oleksandra Zaritska, and photographer Maryna Karpiy, supported the GIDNA project.
Together, we have taken care of the mental health of Ukrainian women and built a bridge to a better future for the entire Ukrainian nation. And we plan to continue our mission!
