Courage to Hope helping people find new beginnings

Never mind that domestic violence is twice as prevalent in Ukraine as it is in the US. Never mind that there are 6 times as many deaths due to domestic violence in Ukraine per capita than in the US. Never mind the fact that the biggest shelter in the country only has $90k/yr to support a shelter, classes, legal fees, food and staff.

Take away all that and why would we help?

Because Ukraine isn't Africa or the Middle East where our assistance isn't as easily implemented and it isn't Europe where there is governmental infrastructure to support shelters. Ukraine is developed enough to accept assistance, but it is not economically progressive enough to provide it itself. There are shelters, but they aren't funded. There are programs, but they can't run. There are people, but they can't be supported.

Let us help Ukrainians help their people. Not through the government. US AID tried; the money never got to the shelters. Not on our own; other organizations have built shelters, and they soon were abandoned. We don't want to go from the top down or the bottom up--we are working directly with the women and children in the shelters to provide programs directed, developed and devised by the people of Ukraine for the people of Ukraine.

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[Update] Hope for Ukraine Postponed

Events, News, Stories

Due to unforeseen scheduling conflicts, we are postponing Hope for Ukraine 2014. We apologize for the inconvenience, and we are very much looking forward to seeing everyone at our event later this summer.

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Hope For Ukraine

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There is no virtue more intrinsic to the survival of a person who has endured a hardship than hope. Hope allows for individuals currently going through a challenging time to dream of something better and to seek the resources needed to achieve this dream. Without hope, the future seems bleak and the current negative situation […]

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Courage to Hope Now on Amazon Smile!

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Courage to Hope is now one of the choices for Amazon Smile! What is Amazon Smile? In October 2013, Amazon launched Amazon Smile, through which Amazon donates 0.5% of all purchases made to the charity of your choice. All you have to do is log in to smile.amazon.com rather than amazon.com, and donations will automatically […]

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Zack’s Birthday – Success!

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Congrats and happy birthday to Zack! He was able to blow past his goal and raised $1000 for his birthday!! Think you can top that? We’d love to have more people donate their birthdays to this great cause, and we don’t mind a little competition Donate your birthday and see if you can raise more […]

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Prize list updated!

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Ok everybody, we have our list of giveaway prizes for our 12 Giveaways of Christmas fundraiser! Remember, all you have to do to win one of the prizes is like us on Facebook and donate at least $15 on the day specified. And now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for! Here are the prizes, […]

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Christmas Giveaways

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We’re excited to announce the 12 Giveaways of Christmas fundraiser! It’s a fairly simple concept – donate money and get entered to win prizes – but we think it will be a lot of fun. The really exciting part is that if we reach our fundraiser goal of $2,013 by December 24, we’re giving a […]

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New Site Design

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We are extremely excited to unveil our new site! A lot of work went into the design of this site, and we think it will make the donation process much simpler and more intuitive. Thanks everyone for all of the support that you’ve given us over the years! Also, stay tuned for announcements about our […]

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New Book “My Whispers of Horror” Launches

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My Whispers of Horror Olga and Chris Brine, of Brine Publishing (links to their stuff is below), just published a book called My Whispers of Horror. It’s a book chronicling several Eastern European women and their personal stories of domestic violence. I immediately picked it up (and I highly recommend that you do as well). […]

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The Important things in Life

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In 2010, after 17 months of fundraising, 100+ donors, 50+ volunteers, 27,000 miles traveled, 19 ATM withdrawals and 1 sacrificed faux Jimmy Choo purse (traveling casualty)…the Center for Women in Kiev, Ukraine, finally received funding for 3 new programs and 2 specialists serving 7,000+ victims of domestic violence. Courage to Hope made similar contributions to […]

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A Post About Birthdays

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Some of you may be aware that we (Courage to Hope) just launched a campaign to allow people to donate their birthdays to Courage to Hope. The concept is simple, really – instead of gifts and/or money, your friends donate to Courage to Hope on your behalf. Charity:Water has been doing this for years (it’s […]

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Courage to Hope

helping people find new beginnings

This is Yulia.

After her husband beat her when he found out she was pregnant, we helped her get back on her feet.