Ukraine 3000 Foundation and McDonalds Ukraine to Donate UAH 1,607,000 worth of Reanimation Equipment to Children’s Hospitals

3 December 2008

The Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation and McDonalds Ukraine will pass to children’s hospitals in Ukraine reanimation equipment for newborns to the total of UAH 1,607,000. This sum was raised in course of the World Children’s Day at McDonalds held in all McDonalds’ restaurants in Ukraine.

This year, money from Fries sells on November 16 and special paper hands, bracelets, and charms sold November 1-10, was channeled for charitable aids. This is a contribution by over 350,000 visitors and staff members of the company. All the 63 McDonalds in 19 Ukrainian cities took part in the action.

The medical equipment will be passed to 29 children’s hospitals in Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zhytomyr, Zaporizhzhia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Kremenchuk, Kryvy Rih, Luhansk, Lutsk, Lviv, Mykolayiv, Mukacheve, Odesa, Poltava, Rivne, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Sumy, Ternopil, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmelnytsky, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Chernivtsi, and Yalta.

World Children’s Day at McDonalds international charitable action is held by McDonald’s corporation since 2002 in more than 100 countries. The date of the action was timed to coincide with the anniversary of adopting by the UN Assembly the Convention on the Rights of the Child November 20, 1989. The action is aimed at raising funds to be used for charitable projects related to children’s health protection and improving their living conditions throughout the world. In 5 years the company raised over $124,000,000, donated for charitable aid to children in various countries. In Ukraine, the UAH 2.5 million, raised by World Children’s Day at McDonalds in 2002-2007, were channeled ti support 40 children’s institutions in 28 Ukraine’s cities.

Since 2005, the World Children’s Day at McDonalds is held in partnership with the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation. The Foundation’s considerable positive experience in implementing charitable projects helps to select medical institutions in the biggest need of help, making it as effective as possible. Due to the money, collected in the 2005 action, family rooms at the Oncology Institute at the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine were remodeled and renewed. In 2006, the Healthy Heart of a Child action was implemented, purchasing cardio equipment for 18 Ukraine’s children’s hospitals. In 2007, equipment for emergency aid and children’s electric pumps were purchased for 30 hospitals in all Ukraine’s oblasts.