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We are delighted and proud to announce that the Open Dialogue Foundation has become the Polish partner of the international SAFE: Social Awareness for (War) Experience project, implemented by the CRISP – Crisis Simulation for Peace e.V. organization from Berlin. It is an honor for us to co-create an initiative that connects organizations from several […]

In early February 2025, our volunteer Grzegorz Madejski organised a charity concert at the Municipal Centre of Culture in Zambrów, featuring the folk band Czeremszyna from the Podlasie region. The event, held under our patronage, aimed to raise funds for the medical treatment of two Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers – Svyatoslav Boyko and Oleksandr Romensky […]

On Saturday, 8 February 2025, Marcin Mycielski and Natalia Melnychenko, joined by fellow supporters of the Foundation, took part in a remarkable charity concert held under the patronage of the Open Dialogue Foundation (ODF). The event, organised by our friend and volunteer Grzegorz Madejski at the Municipal Centre of Culture in Zambrów, raised over PLN […]

As part of our ongoing programme to support Ukrainian veterans, we travelled to Ukraine for the second time together with representatives of the Poznań-based company Aether Biomedical. This time, in addition to revisiting clinics and hospitals in Lviv, Khmelnytskyi and Kyiv, we extended our mission further east – to medical facilities in Poltava and Kharkiv, […]

Since February 2024, with dozens of humanitarian missions to Ukraine we’ve delivered millions of Euros worth of aid – both to civilians and Ukraine’s defenders on the front line. Simultaneously we’ve supported thousands of women and children seeking shelter in Poland. Now, finally, we found a way to also help the heroes who lost the […]

Artur Deska, a one-man army, has passed away. A legendary Polish volunteer in Ukraine, who advocated for reconciliation and cooperation between our countries. A romantic at heart, a positivist in action. Not only our friend, but also our advisor, whom we met during the Euromaidan in 2013. It was he who inspired one of the […]

Since 24 February 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine, we have been doing everything to support our friends and neighbours. Thanks to your support our aid has included, among others, 110 transports with which we have delivered 78 931 pieces of protective and life-saving equipment! Here is what we have taken to Ukraine so far: See also: […]

In December 2023, a Christmas humanitarian mission to the frontline in Ukraine took place under the aegis of the Open Dialogue Foundation. Among the participants were our friends from the Red Poppy Charity, Anioły Miłosierdzia (Angels of Mercy) and the Latvian Ganta Fonds. The mission was also accompanied by war correspondent Marcin Wyrwał. This time […]

Since 24 February 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine, we have been doing everything to support our friends and neighbours. Thanks to your support our aid has included, among others, 107 transports with which we have delivered 77,839 pieces of protective and life-saving equipment! Here is what we have taken to Ukraine so far: See also: […]

ODF’s current activities, related to events beyond our eastern border, focus on three areas, i.e.: ◾️ Refugee Assistance Centre at the Eastern Railway Station in Warsaw ◾️ Homes for Independent Mums from Ukraine in the Mazowieckie Voivodeship ◾️ Equipment for soldiers and humanitarian aid to the civilian population in Ukraine. We have managed to list […]

September marks the end of summer holidays and the start of the school year. This is a big event for our youngest resident at the Home for Independent Mums from Ukraine. Schools and kindergartens always pose new challenges for kids. However, we believe that Anastasiia, Oleksandr, Mila, Ivan and Oleg will meet them without much […]

Meet Mila, one of the younger residents of a Home for Independent Mums, who celebrated her 7th birthday last week. Mila is an extremely talented girl — before the outbreak of full-scale war in Ukraine, she was training in artistic gymnastics. After 24 February 2022, Mila and her mum fled the country from Russian shelling […]

Meet Victoria, a resident of one of the Homes for Independent Mums from Ukraine. In Dnipro, where she comes from, she was working as the director of a real-estate agency. After the outbreak of full-scale war, she and her daughter came to Poland. From the very beginning, she set herself the goal of achieving in […]

As a result of the Russian terrorist attack, Ukraine has experienced the most severe environmental and humanitarian disaster in decades. On Tuesday, 6 June, at 02:50 a.m., the Russian army blasted the Nova Kakhovka Dam in Kherson region. The water flooded and destroyed many villages and towns located in the lower sections of the Dnipro […]

At the turn of April and May 2023 we set off on our third humanitarian mission to the very frontline of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Having first been to Kupiansk/Kherson and Bakhmut, this time we brought aid as far as to the vicinity of Avdiivka where Ukrainians now fight the heaviest battles against the Russian aggressor.  Our […]