Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital

On Nov. 25, 2016 in Kyiv, the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital (PFVMH) and its agrarian partners will hold a “Buy an Icon – Save a Life” charity event dedicated to the second anniversary of the PFVMH establishment. The event will feature the final sale of a unique collection of modern Orthodox icons painted on ammo boxes.

The event will be held in the National Museum of Taras Shevchenko, 12 Taras Shevchenko Blvd. Beginning at 5:30 p.m. The program will feature a performance by a renowned kobzar, banduryst and lirnyk Taras Kompanichenko. The charity event is co-organized with Andriy Hordiychuk, Agrarian Superstate Foundation founder and the Chairman of the Board of the Svarog West Group, who has been supporting the PFVMH since its establishment.

Diplomats, representatives of international organizations in Ukraine, members of the Verkhovna Rada, government officials, renowned politicians, business people and media have been invited to attend.

Participation in the event is subject to invitation. Accreditation is required for the media at pfvmhospital@gmail.com or +380 67 749 9394 not later than 3:00 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 25.

The collection includes icons painted by Kyivan artists Oleksandr Klymenko and Sofia Atlantova on elements of ammo boxes brought from the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) zone in eastern Ukraine. These unique masterpieces adorn offices of Ukrainian and European MPs, business people and private art collectors, and the premises of museums, galleries and embassies. The collection was exhibited in the European Parliament, the Lithuanian Seimas, the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada, the Lithuanian Embassy in Ukraine and the Ukrainian Embassy in the Netherlands, as well as in many European and Ukrainian cities. Sold icons, as part of the PFVMH’s “Buy an Icon – Save a Life” campaign, have already raised over UAH 1 million for the volunteer hospital to provide medical aid to people in eastern Ukraine. The icons are presently exhibited at the premises of the Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine.

PFVMH is the largest nongovernmental project on involving civil health professionals in provision of medical assistance in the ATO zone, which comprises several districts of the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts. At present, a team of the PFVMH works on its 20th mission at front-line civil hospitals in Donetsk Oblast’s Volnovakha as well as Luhansk Oblast’s Popasna, Novoaydar, Schastya and Stanytsya Luhanska.

Since the PFVMH establishment in December 2014, a total of over 220 volunteer medics have participated in the project and during 20 missions provided medical aid to more than 10,000 patients, both civilians and servicemen. Twenty-two PFVMH volunteers have received state awards, 77 have been awarded with medals of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

For additional information please contact our communication officer at pfvmhospital@gmail.com or +380 67 749 9394.

Partners:

The PFVMH is a strategic partner of the Civic Political Movement “Spravedlyvist”.