Charity

For many years, UKRSIBBANK BNP Paribas Group has been striving to provide opportunities to ensure healthcare accessibility for Ukrainians.

In 2022, UKRSIBBANK provided charitable financial assistance to the International Charitable Foundation “Promoting the Development of Medicine” in the amount of over UAH 1.1 million for purchasing:

• fuel and payment for transport and logistics services for the delivery of humanitarian aid to Kharkiv and Chernihiv, as well as Donetsk, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia regions;
• specialized medical facilities for the needs of intensive care units and dressing materials for emergency medical care;
• specialized medicines (insulin, antiepileptic and antiasthmatic drugs, etc.) for the civilian population.

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the russian army into Ukraine, the Foundation has been actively helping Ukrainians who found themselves without a home, without food and medicine in the front-line zone, in the de-occupied territories, as well as temporarily displaced persons throughout the country.

The bank has supported the Promoting the Development of Medicine international charity fund for many years. Due to this, medical consulting by mobile medical teams for the citizens was arranged in the villages.

In addition, during the Covid-19 pandemic, UKRSIBBANK provided financial assistance to purchase necessary medical supplies for almost 80 hospitals from the list approved by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine to accommodate COVID-19 patients in various cities of Ukraine.

With the allocated funds, the bank purchased biosecurity suits (waterproof), FFP3 and FFP2 respirators, gloves, protective overalls, protective boots, protective masks, glasses, hand antiseptics, liquid soap, as well as other necessities for the protection of doctors and medical supplies.

All materials were purchased with the help of the charitable funds Promoting the Development of Medicine and Likar.Infund.

It should be noted that at the international level, BNP Paribas, being the main shareholder of UKRSIBBANK, allocated 1 million euros for the program of COVID-19 research and the development of a vaccine by the Institut Pasteur, France. Moreover, to step up support in the context of the health crisis, BNP Paribas has launched an emergency plan and committed to providing €50 million as a contribution to the implementation of the plan of action against COVID-19 in more than 30 countries, which includes local support for hospitals, vulnerable population and youth.

In 2023, UKRSIBBANK BNP Paribas Group launched a large-scale project «ReNewSpace: joint renewal for the future». Within the project, various institutions will be able to receive carefully dismantled structures from the bank’s offices free of charge. These are windows, doors, ceiling tiles, etc. The partner of the project – the Foundation «Promoting the Development of Medicine», transfers materials to medical and social institutions of Ukraine so that they can improve or restore damaged premises and provide services to Ukrainians in proper conditions.

In 2023 UKRSIBBANK supported the joint initiative of the United World Cultures Foundation and the Prothealth company.  The bank allocated UAH 399,000 to purchase 7 air purifiers to the care units of the Institute of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology named after Acad. O. Lukyanova of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Also, were purchased 15 replaceable filters for them, which have a 7-level filtration system and can remove 99.97% of air pollutants. These filters were installed in the resuscitation department and neonatal intensive care unit, in the operating room of obstetric clinics and in the infectious-boxing unit for younger children, including beds for post-neonatal care and prolonged rehabilitation of newborns.

Every year, the Institute helps more than 30,000 patients, and since the beginning of the war, helped also pregnant women, women in labor, newborns and premature children from temporarily occupied territories and war zones. In terms of air quality, the hospital is a particularly sensitive environment due to the risk of spreading organisms that cause viral, bacterial or fungal diseases.

Every year, on the eve of the New Year holiday, bank employees present gifts to those who especially need it – children from boarding schools and orphanages.

In 2023, bank employees visited educational institutions in Kyiv and the region to personally congratulate 500 little dreamers with sweets and give them festive warmth and care. Employees gave sweet gifts to boarding schools in Kyiv, Kindergarten No. 127, Brovary and Bilotserkivskyi children’s homes, and Bilotserkivskyi boarding house.

It is already a good tradition for UKRSIBBANK to take care not only of their children and loved ones, but also to realize the dreams of children who are deprived of parental love and growing up in boarding schools and orphanages.