Crown Agents’ Ukraine Emergency Response is raising funds to support urgent medical and rescue equipment direct into Ukraine via liaison with Ukraine Ministry of Health.

All personal donations made will be matched by equivalent funds from the Antin UK Charity budget.

Crown Agents is a UK HQ not-for-profit international development company that works in partnership with governments, ministries, institutions, donors, foundations, philanthropists and the private sector to tackle the complex challenges they face.

The group have specialisms including health system strengthening, procurement and crisis response, and have a team embedded in the Ukraine Ministry of Health for over 25 years. Pre-crisis this has covered projects such as delivery of Covid vaccines, and strengthening medical supply procurement processes. Now as part of the conflict the team are receiving daily updates on the critical needs of the MoH and population in real-time and are ensuring critical medical goods rapidly reach those citizens.

Recently this has included procurement and delivery of the Individual First Aid Kits, 50,000 items of Protective Paramedic Equipment and Search and Rescue Equipment that will be delivered immediately to the MoH in Ukraine.