Solutions to win: UNITED24 raises $1 mln for evacuation vehicles through T-Shirt giveaway featuring Zelensky's White House phrase
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On March 1, the fundraising platform UNITED24 initiated a raffle featuring 100 T-shirts emblazoned with President Volodymyr Zelensky's notable White House remark about his suit. In under two weeks, global benefactors contributed $1 million, earmarked for evacuation vehicles.
UNITED24 reported this.
Black T-shirts featuring the inscription "I will wear the costume when this war is over," along with the platform's logo, were offered in a raffle for contributions starting at $24.
"The raffle of T-shirts with the iconic phrase has ended. Thanks to your donations, $1,015,551 was raised in less than two weeks," the platform noted.
Photo: UNITED24
The organizers added that this amount would be approximately enough for three medical evacuation vehicles to save the heroes.
UNITED24 also thanked the benefactors for their contributions and noted that they would contact the winners of the raffle soon.
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It is worth adding that the United24 platform, a global initiative to support Ukraine, launched by the Ukrainian authorities in May 2022, reported on the funds raised to support the Ukrainian army. Over $2.5 million was raised in three days.
The United24 platform also published a list of 20 countries whose residents actively participated in donations.
From the information that was released, it is clear that the most donations were made by:
Citizens from the United States of America, who raised over $1.5 million.
The United Kingdom came in second place in terms of donations, with more than $168,000 coming from there to support the Ukrainian army.
Canada came in third. They raised $119,000.
In Ukraine, on the night of March 1, Monobank initiated a "nuclear" fundraiser, following the meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump at the White House on February 28. According to the fundraiser's organizer, by the morning of March 1, approximately 70,000 participants from 61 countries had expressed their intent to contribute.
According to Monobank's owner, as of 5:00 p.m. on March 1, about 23 million hryvnias had been raised.
According to Horokhovsky, the fundraiser's aim was to demonstrate that Ukrainians are united in their resolve, harbor strong opposition to the enemy, and are committed to defending their land, freedom, and independence. He emphasized that their unity serves as their "nukes," which remain indestructible even in the face of other nuclear weapons.
Notably, in late December of the previous year, the Zagoriy Foundation, in collaboration with Info Sapiens, conducted their traditional annual study on the charity sector in Ukraine. The study examined charitable practices, their prevalence, emerging trends, and the challenges civil society faces.
According to the study's results, the charity prevalence index has indeed decreased compared to 2022: from 7.7 to 6.7 on a 10-point scale. However, this indicator is higher than in 2021, when the index was 4.5.
The percentage of Ukrainians involved in charity remains high: 86% have contributed to aid in various ways over the past year.
Reports indicate that Ukrainians increasingly donate to "jars" rather than larger foundations and charitable organizations. Additionally, Ukraine's official list of volunteers has grown by 1.5 times since the beginning of the year, reaching 10,000 people.
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