The Foundation for Development of Ukraine is a non-profit organization, established July 15, 2005 by Rinat Lyeonidovich Akhmetov, a Ukrainian businessman. Mission of the Foundation: "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". Foundation has two offices functioning in Kiev and Donetsk, Ukraine.
Current projects
Health of the Nation
STOP TB Project. Stop TB in Ukraine program with the financial support of the Global Fund ; project mission was to introduce changes in regulatory framework of Ukraine to create conditions and mechanisms for TB doctors to provide high-quality diagnostics and treatment. A five-year regional program "Fighting TB Epidemic in Donetsk Region in 2007 - 2011" was launched within the framework of the national project Stop TB on 31 May 2007. The program was initiated by the Foundation for Development of Ukraine, Donetsk Region Council and Donetsk Regional State Administration with the goal to reduce TB morbidity and mortality in Donetsk region. In 2010 the Foundation became the main recipient of the Global Fund aimed to reduce burden of tuberculosis in Ukraine.
Information campaign has the goal to increase the awareness of population re tuberculosis diagnostics and preventive measures. The telephone hot line has been set up to provide population with answers to all tuberculosis related questions. The information campaign also included different voluntary actions, seminars-trainings and journalistic publication contests, visits to penitentiary institutions.
Cancer can be cured. Timely cancer diagnostics and treatment in Ukraine. The project Cancer Can Be Cured. Timely Cancer Diagnostics and Treatment was initiated by the President of Foundation for Development of Ukraine on 10 July 2008. The goal is to introduce the global standards in cancer diagnostics and treatment in Ukraine, specifically for cancer patients in eight oblasts of the Western Ukraine.
UNIAN -Zdorovye. The project was launched on May 2007. Goal of the project was to provide access to the latest news in health and medicine; unite doctors seeking self-education and self-organization; and promote careful attitude to health. The project includes an information web-page at the website, as well as an e-version disseminated free of charge. The sections of the source cover international, Ukrainian and regional medical news, statistics, research results, issue-related columns, useful information, links, recommendations and announcements. The information is updated on a real time basis. The newsletter is issued daily; the average visit statistics is over 6,000 people per day.
Contemporary Education
Digital Future of Journalism, was launched in 2007 with the timeline 2007-2014 and is being implemented in partnership with the National University of Kiev-Mohyla Academy. The Project Goal is to train journalists ready to adopt the digital culture and develop their editorial offices to match international media trends.
PhD Program in Mass Communications, launched on the 1 October 2008 with the timeline 2008-2012. The program targets to train scientific and educational staff with the highest education degree following the pattern of the third cycle of European Higher Education Area based on so-called Salzburg Principles.
Foster care promotion and family building, launched on the 1 June 2008 to promote national adoption and to support foster families and family-type orphanages, including granting material aid; cooperates with orphanage schools to prevent social orphanhood. The first national portal on adoption Say No to Orphanhood
Large families. Project was launched in 2008 with the goal to provide housing to all registered large families in the Autonomy Republic of Crimea; Donetsk, Zakarpattye, and Luhansk oblasts with over 10 underage children by 1 January 2009 and to establish social partnership between the government, the businesses, and the family.
Cultural Heritage
Reconstruction of the Metropolitan’s House in the National Sanctuary "Sophia of Kiev", 2008 with the goal to accomplish full-scale reconstruction of the Metropolitan’s House, and to help Sophia of Kiev to establish contacts with world museums to carry out joint cultural events in the Metropolitan’s House.
Reconstruction Museum in Pirogovo Village. In 2008 the Fund of Rinat Akhmetov "Development of Ukraine" allocated funds to develop infrastructure of the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life Pyrohiv and the restoration of individual museum exhibits.
Grant Programme I³. The grants awarded in the following cultural areas: visual art, theatre art, literature, museum business, cultural education.
Work during the conflict in Donbass
With the outbreak of the war in Donbass in 2014, the Humanitarian Center was established on the basis of the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation to help civilians affected by the war. The Center evacuated people from trouble spots, distributed humanitarian food packages and helped treat and rehabilitate the injured. As of May 2017, more than a million Donbas residents received assistance from the Humanitarian Center.
Targeted Assistance and Assistance in Emergencies
The Project was established to cover expensive and complex treatment courses, including treatment of children, which cannot be totally funded by the state and the national budget. Assistance in emergencies project is to provide help to those who suffered from natural and manmade disasters. Support was rendered to victims and people whose relatives died in the blasts in Dnepropetrovsk, at Zasyadko, Krasnolimanskaya, Karl Marx, Duvannaya coal mines.
