🏃‍♂️🇺🇦 Join the Lifesavers4Ukraine National Charity Run! 🇺🇦🏃‍♀️

In 2025, Ukraine celebrates 34 years of independence — a powerful symbol of hope and resilience. To honour this milestone, we invite you to take part in a 34-day virtual run or walk from July 22 to August 24, Ukraine’s Independence Day.

Organised by the Ukrainian Medical Charity (UMC), this event invites you to become a Lifesaver4Ukraine — a lifesaver supporting Ukrainian children in need.

Run, jog, or walk any distance — alone or with friends — and raise funds for Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kharkiv OKHMATDYT— IOZDP, the largest tertiary centre for children. Kharkiv is a city in Northeastern Ukraine that has been continuously bombed since the invasion. Your steps and fundraising will help purchase vital equipment for the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU), providing life-saving care for sick and injured children, many of whom are forced to shelter underground.

The children that OKHMATDYT cares for often have very severe cases of congenital heart disease, rheumatological patients, endocrine conditions, gastrointestinal diseases and severe psychiatry patients.

Hospital Website: https://iozdp.org.ua/index.php/ru/adm/7-director

Together, we’ll aim to cover the distance from London, UK, to Kharkiv, Ukraine — 1,818 miles — each mile a step toward Ukrainian freedom and healing.

✨ Instead of just watching heartbreaking news helplessly, take action to support children who simply want to live in peace in their own country.

🎉 Every participant will be entered into a prize draw on August 24, Ukraine’s Independence Day.

💙 Join Lifesavers4Ukraine — run with purpose, support with heart, and celebrate Ukraine’s Independence Day.

👉 Follow updates and connect with other participants on our official Facebook page: https://facebook.com/events/s/miles-for-independence-lifesav/1268741857970983/