Week 4. How does business help the country during the war?
25/ 03/ 2022
Ukraine has been defending itself against Russia for a month now, while companies are doing everything possible to defend the home front. We are very grateful to the companies that continue to work, volunteer, and provide financial, material, and humanitarian assistance to the country during the war. Each of their stories fascinates and strengthens the sense of unity, involvement, and pride in the EBA community. Check it yourself:
Employees of the law firm Sayenko Kharenko work as volunteers in the charity fund Dykhai established during the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, the fund has changed its core activities and transfers all charitable donations and humanitarian aid to support the civilians in Ukraine. Since the beginning of active hostilities in Ukraine, almost UAH 3 million of aid has been collected.
Foxtrot, as a member of the Euronics Group, initiated the humanitarian aid of almost 700 thousand euros from the Union of World Retailers . The company also reopened more than a hundred physical stores operating in 75 cities and districts of Ukraine. Moreover, the company organized systematic assistance to the defenders of Ukraine’s independence, providing household appliances at the request of local governments, law enforcement agencies, volunteers, social institutions, and NGOs. The company is also arranging rooms for refugees at Foxtrot facilities: the rooms have already received the first residents in Lviv and Lutsk. Soon the facilities will be open in Chernivtsi and Uzhhorod.
McDonalds Ukraine has allocated $ 5 million and set up a fund to help workers injured in the shelling. Besides, the company donated more than 58 tons of products from its restaurants. And it will continue to do so. Also, the Ronald McDonald House Charity has supported childrens hospitals from the earliest days of the way with financial and humanitarian support.
EPAM Ukraine transferred UAH 50 million of income tax to the state budget in advance for the first quarter of 2022. It also allocated 10 million hryvnias to the Red Cross of Ukraine for medical needs, 440,000 hryvnias - to ASAP Rescue for rescue operations. Another 300,000 hryvnias went to the Lviv IT cluster to provide shelters for migrants and help Kharkiv overcome the food crisis. EPAM financially supports the blood centers so that the preservation and transportation of donated blood throughout the country can be ensured.
Infopulse transferred to the Come Back Alive Foundation (UAH 3 million) and the Lviv IT Cluster (UAH 100,000 for refugee shelters). It also provided 51 units of equipment to local territorial defense groups and to Armed Forces, allocated human resources to address specific technical projects important for the security of the country. The company has intensified cooperation with its long-term partner – the Charity Fund Children of Hope and Love.
Winner Group Ukraine is the official importer of Ford, MG, Volvo, Jaguar, Land Rover, Porsche, and Bentley cars. Thus, Winner also purchased an ambulance car for a medical center that cares for wounded soldiers. The total amount of Winner’s financial support for the Armed Forces, the Territorial Defense, and charitable organizations currently amounts to over UAH 89 million.
Despite the suspension of projects, Kantar provided its employees with financial aid and decided to pay salaries for the entire period until the end of the war. Kantars global office has set up a $ 1 million fund to help Ukrainian employees and their families. It will also donate 250,000 GBP to humanitarian needs for people affected in Ukraine.
Kimberly-Clark International Corporation is donating $ 1 million in financial and humanitarian aid in Ukraine. This will include a $ 500,000 donation to the Red Cross, as well as $ 500,000 of essential products under Huggies, Kotex, Kleenex, Depend, and K-C Professional brands.
Parimatch Tech increased the amount of aid to Ukraine from 30 to 60 million hryvnias. On the left and right banks of Kyiv, the company has organized two warehouses that are used to coordinate, collect and deliver humanitarian aid. Besides, a significant amount of office equipment was donated to territorial defense groups: printers, laptops, monitors, network equipment, modems. Branded Teslas are now used to deliver medicines, food, and ammunition, as well as to evacuate residents of Kyiv and the region. At the same time, the non-profit Parimatch Foundation has suspended sustainable development initiatives, shifting its focus to helping war victims.
Fresenius Medical Care provides dialysis services to people with chronic kidney disease around the world. Its official offices in Ukraine are situated in Cherkasy, Chernihiv, and Kharkiv. Thus, Chernihiv and Kharkiv centers provided hemodialysis under fire and at risk for the life of its specialists. Due to the complicated situation in Kharkiv, the company evacuated more than 50 patients with relatives and pets to Lviv. Patients have been resettled and will receive dialysis at a partner center. Nearly 100 patients with families from Chernihiv have been evacuated. They are currently provided with housing and will undergo hemodialysis at the Fresenius Medical Care Ukraine Center in Cherkasy.
Liga Zakon has decided to provide free access to the Liga360 IT platform to central authorities, courts, prosecutors, the army, and the territorial defense groups. More than 2,000 people have already joined the informational planform.
Ukrtelecom maintains the telecom services for the population regardless of the balance on the account. In Kropyvnytskyi, Vinnytsia, Poltava, Khmelnytsky, Uzhhorod, Mukachevo, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Chernivtsi, the companys premises are being equipped for temporary accommodation of workers and their families. During the 20 days of the war, the operator sent about 18 million hryvnias to help the Armed Forces and the territorial defense group.
Festo is a German family-owned private company. The owners have already donated EUR 100,000 to the German fund that organizes humanitarian aid for Ukraine and are going to provide further aid in the near future.
Kremenchukgaz transferred UAH 250,000 to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine, UAH 150 thousand for humanitarian aid to Ukrainians, UAH 200,000 to the accounts of local medical institutions that receive evacuees from the East, North, and South of Ukraine. The company also provides assistance to the territorial defense forces – the companys employees produced 360 anti-car hedgehogs.
Since the first day of the war, Sanofi in Ukraine has made every effort to provide patients with access to vital treatment, as well as to minimize the impact of the war on the ongoing clinical trials in Ukraine. Through its charitable foundation, Sanofi provided € 5 million in donations to the Red Cross and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
In general, the EBA Health Care Committee member companies, namely AbbVie, Arterium, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH, Darnitsa, Egis, Farmak, Novartis, Orion Pharma, Pfizer, Philips, Roche Diagnostics, Sandoz, Sanofi, Takeda, Teva, USB, Wörwag Pharma provided assistance to Ukraine in the amount of about 44.1 million US dollars – read more.
Strong support is also felt from the members of the EBA Committee for Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Development. Thus, Asters, Ferrexpo, GTH, Kronospan, Bayer, Metinvest, ArcelorMittal, DTEK, MHP, BASF, Kernel are focused on four volunteering areas: providing humanitarian aid, support of medical institutions, evacuation, and shelters for people from combat areas.
And that’s not all. Our marathon of stories will be continued.
If you want to share how your business supports Ukraine, please contact oksana.myronko@eba.com.ua
More inspiring business stories:
Purchase of computers, food for soldiers, and the national roaming - how business supports the country
Business and the needs of war: anti-tank hedgehogs instead of pipes, drinking water instead of beer
Ukraine has been defending itself against Russia for a month now, while companies are doing everything possible to defend the home front. We are very grateful to the companies that continue to work, volunteer, and provide financial, material, and humanitarian assistance to the country during the war. Each of their stories fascinates and strengthens the sense of unity, involvement, and pride in the EBA community. Check it yourself:
Employees of the law firm Sayenko Kharenko work as volunteers in the charity fund “Dykhai” established during the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, the fund has changed its core activities and transfers all charitable donations and humanitarian aid to support the civilians in Ukraine. Since the beginning of active hostilities in Ukraine, almost UAH 3 million of aid has been collected.
Foxtrot, as a member of the Euronics Group, initiated the humanitarian aid of almost 700 thousand euros from the Union of World Retailers . The company also reopened more than a hundred physical stores operating in 75 cities and districts of Ukraine. Moreover, the company organized systematic assistance to the defenders of Ukraine’s independence, providing household appliances at the request of local governments, law enforcement agencies, volunteers, social institutions, and NGOs. The company is also arranging rooms for refugees at Foxtrot facilities: the rooms have already received the first residents in Lviv and Lutsk. Soon the facilities will be open in Chernivtsi and Uzhhorod.
McDonald’s Ukraine has allocated $ 5 million and set up a fund to help workers injured in the shelling. Besides, the company donated more than 58 tons of products from its restaurants. And it will continue to do so. Also, the Ronald McDonald House Charity has supported children’s hospitals from the earliest days of the way with financial and humanitarian support.
EPAM Ukraine transferred UAH 50 million of income tax to the state budget in advance for the first quarter of 2022. It also allocated 10 million hryvnias to the Red Cross of Ukraine for medical needs, 440,000 hryvnias – to ASAP Rescue for rescue operations. Another 300,000 hryvnias went to the Lviv IT cluster to provide shelters for migrants and help Kharkiv overcome the food crisis. EPAM financially supports the blood centers so that the preservation and transportation of donated blood throughout the country can be ensured.
Infopulse transferred to the Come Back Alive Foundation (UAH 3 million) and the Lviv IT Cluster (UAH 100,000 for refugee shelters). It also provided 51 units of equipment to local territorial defense groups and to Armed Forces, allocated human resources to address specific technical projects important for the security of the country. The company has intensified cooperation with its long-term partner – the Charity Fund “Children of Hope and Love”.
Winner Group Ukraine is the official importer of Ford, MG, Volvo, Jaguar, Land Rover, Porsche, and Bentley cars. Thus, Winner also purchased an ambulance car for a medical center that cares for wounded soldiers. The total amount of Winner’s financial support for the Armed Forces, the Territorial Defense, and charitable organizations currently amounts to over UAH 89 million.
Despite the suspension of projects, Kantar provided its employees with financial aid and decided to pay salaries for the entire period until the end of the war. Kantar’s global office has set up a $ 1 million fund to help Ukrainian employees and their families. It will also donate 250,000 GBP to humanitarian needs for people affected in Ukraine.
Kimberly-Clark International Corporation is donating $ 1 million in financial and humanitarian aid in Ukraine. This will include a $ 500,000 donation to the Red Cross, as well as $ 500,000 of essential products under Huggies, Kotex, Kleenex, Depend, and K-C Professional brands.
Parimatch Tech increased the amount of aid to Ukraine from 30 to 60 million hryvnias. On the left and right banks of Kyiv, the company has organized two warehouses that are used to coordinate, collect and deliver humanitarian aid. Besides, a significant amount of office equipment was donated to territorial defense groups: printers, laptops, monitors, network equipment, modems. Branded Teslas are now used to deliver medicines, food, and ammunition, as well as to evacuate residents of Kyiv and the region. At the same time, the non-profit Parimatch Foundation has suspended sustainable development initiatives, shifting its focus to helping war victims.
Fresenius Medical Care provides dialysis services to people with chronic kidney disease around the world. Its official offices in Ukraine are situated in Cherkasy, Chernihiv, and Kharkiv. Thus, Chernihiv and Kharkiv centers provided hemodialysis under fire and at risk for the life of its specialists. Due to the complicated situation in Kharkiv, the company evacuated more than 50 patients with relatives and pets to Lviv. Patients have been resettled and will receive dialysis at a partner center. Nearly 100 patients with families from Chernihiv have been evacuated. They are currently provided with housing and will undergo hemodialysis at the Fresenius Medical Care Ukraine Center in Cherkasy.
Liga Zakon has decided to provide free access to the Liga360 IT platform to central authorities, courts, prosecutors, the army, and the territorial defense groups. More than 2,000 people have already joined the informational planform.
Ukrtelecom maintains the telecom services for the population regardless of the balance on the account. In Kropyvnytskyi, Vinnytsia, Poltava, Khmelnytsky, Uzhhorod, Mukachevo, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Chernivtsi, the company’s premises are being equipped for temporary accommodation of workers and their families. During the 20 days of the war, the operator sent about 18 million hryvnias to help the Armed Forces and the territorial defense group.
Festo is a German family-owned private company. The owners have already donated EUR 100,000 to the German fund that organizes humanitarian aid for Ukraine and are going to provide further aid in the near future.
Kremenchukgaz transferred UAH 250,000 to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine, UAH 150 thousand for humanitarian aid to Ukrainians, UAH 200,000 to the accounts of local medical institutions that receive evacuees from the East, North, and South of Ukraine. The company also provides assistance to the territorial defense forces – the company’s employees produced 360 anti-car “hedgehogs”.
Since the first day of the war, Sanofi in Ukraine has made every effort to provide patients with access to vital treatment, as well as to minimize the impact of the war on the ongoing clinical trials in Ukraine. Through its charitable foundation, Sanofi provided € 5 million in donations to the Red Cross and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
In general, the EBA Health Care Committee member companies, namely AbbVie, Arterium, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH, Darnitsa, Egis, Farmak, Novartis, Orion Pharma, Pfizer, Philips, Roche Diagnostics, Sandoz, Sanofi, Takeda, Teva, USB, Wörwag Pharma provided assistance to Ukraine in the amount of about 44.1 million US dollars – read more.
Strong support is also felt from the members of the EBA Committee for Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Development. Thus, Asters, Ferrexpo, GTH, Kronospan, Bayer, Metinvest, ArcelorMittal, DTEK, MHP, BASF, Kernel are focused on four volunteering areas: providing humanitarian aid, support of medical institutions, evacuation, and shelters for people from combat areas.
And that’s not all. Our marathon of stories will be continued.
When you create a personal cabinet, we process your personal data in accordance with the EBA's Privacy Policy, which is set out below. Therefore, we need your consent to the processing of personal data and confirmation that you have read our Privacy Policy.
Privacy Policy
European Business Association ("EBA") respects your data privacy. This Privacy Policy ("Policy") covers issues regarding the collection, use, disclosure, transfer and storing of your personal information.
Please make sure that you are familiar with our privacy practices and contact us if you have any questions.
1. Definitions
To ensure that you understand the issues of data processing, we will firstly explain the terms used in this Policy:
Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (in particular, data relating to you);
Data subject is any identified or identifiable natural person (in particular, you), whose personal data is processed by the controller responsible for the processing;
Processing is any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, depersonalization, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;
Restriction of processing is the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting their processing in the future;
Controller is the natural or legal person, which alone or jointly with others determines the purposes of the processing of personal data, establishes composition of this data and procedures of its processing (in particular, EBA);
Processor is a natural or legal person, which processes personal data on behalf of the controller;
Third party is a natural or legal person other than the data subject, controller or processor to whom personal data is transferred by the controller or processor and who is authorized to process personal data;
Consentof the data subject is a voluntary expression of will of a natural person to grant permission to process his or her personal data in accordance with the declared purpose of its processing, expressed in a manner that allows making a conclusion about provision of consent;
IP address is a unique identifier used by certain electronic devices to identify and communicate with each other on the Internet.
2. What data do we collect?
When you communicate with us by any means of communication including, but not limited to e-mail, fax, phone, social networks, online application form, send us different files, CV’s, use a personal electronic cabinet on the EBA website or conclude agreements with us we may collect your personal data, including:
contact details (name, surname, date of birth, position, company, telephone, fax, e-mail address, links to personal pages in social networks, etc.);
Identity document (ID) data;
photos, video files, etc.
We may also collect data that contains information about the domain name or IP address, date and length of time spent by the Internet user on the EBA website. Such data is collected automatically when the Internet user visits the EBA website. In conjunction with other data, this information helps us determine which content is most attractive to our visitors. In addition, such data helps us to detect any destabilization of our facilities.
3. Cookies policy
The EBA website uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your device for storing data and that can be read by the web server in the domain that hosted them. We use cookies for enabling you to sign-in, analyzing how our website performs, keeping track of activity on our website, collecting traffic data and fulfilling other legitimate purposes.
Most web browsers automatically use cookies, while allowing users to control the process by blocking or deleting them. Instructions for blocking or deleting cookies can be found in each browser's privacy settings or reference documentation.
4. How do we use your data?
The EBA collects your data for purposes of:
communication with you;
sending you e-mails that contain information about news, events etc. that we think might interest you;
responding to your requests, questions, and reacting on your concerns;
conducting surveys and research;
administering membership and collection of fees;
storing, updating and analyzing data in corporate software (Terrasoft CRM, EBA website CRM system, HR CRM);
organization and registration for EBA events in the context of its statutory activity or events in which the EBA acts as a co-organizer;
recruitment (for candidates);
transfers of information to courier companies, outsourcing accounting companies/banks;
enabling you to use the EBA website and its features;
administering your account with us, EBA websites, including improvement of our Internet services (developing new features and offerings, etc.).
Please pay attention that apart from the purposes listed above, we may also process your personal data to provide law enforcement authorities with information necessary for criminal proceedings or if such processing is necessary for another legal obligation to which we are subject, in order to protect your vital interest as a data subject or the interest of another natural person or for the purpose of any other legitimate interest pursued by the EBA or a third party that does not violate your fundamental rights and freedoms as a data subject.
Legitimate interest means the interest of the EBA in terms of conducting its statutory activity. When we process your personal information for the purposes of our legitimate interests, we balance any potential impact on you and your rights. Our legitimate interests do not automatically override your interests.
We process personal data for particular legitimate purposes, which include but are not limited to:
communication with you;
sending you e-mails that contain information about news, events etc. that we think might interest you.
We also may collect data in a form that does not, on its own, permit direct association with any specific individual (non-personal data). We may collect, use, transfer, and disclose non-personal data for any purpose. If we do combine non-personal data with personal data, the combined data will be treated as personal data as long as it remains combined.
5. How long do we store your data?
We try to make it easy for you to keep your personal information accurate, complete, and up to date. We will retain your personal information for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Policy. When assessing these periods, we carefully examine our necessity to collect personal information at all and if we establish such necessity, we only retain it for the period required to realize the purpose of collection (for instance, term of your employment in EBA Member, etc.) unless a longer retention period is required by law.
6. With whom do we share your data?
We do not share your personal data with companies, organizations, or individuals outside of the EBA except in the following cases:
personal data of EBA Members’ employees may be shared with postal services, mailing systems, EBA’s outsourcing accounting companies, restaurants, banks, payment systems, taxi services, journalists, security companies, cloud services, phone operators, public authorities to the extent of EBA’s statutory activity, with other EBA Members or counterparties (for instance, delivery services);
personal data of participants of EBA events or participants of events in which EBA acts as co-organizer may be shared with pertinent public authorities, venues to ensure their free entrance and with speakers (moderators) of such events;
personal data of EBA suppliers may be shared with EBA Members, accounting companies, banks, etc.
Only names, surnames, emails, photos and positions of participants of EBA events or participants of events in which the EBA acts as co-organizer, members of EBA governing bodies, EBA Members’ employees may be published on EBA website (websites).
7. How do we protect your personal data?
The EBA treats the security of your personal data very seriously. We protect your personal data by various means in order to maintain its confidentiality and integrity and prevent the unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data and to protect your personal data from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction.
Firstly, the EBA has corporate procedures that define how employees should leave their working space when they leave the office (clear desk policy). Moreover, each EBA employee has a unique password in order to access the website’s back office as well as passwords to access the local database.
Hosting providers and cloud service providers guarantee protection by means of encryption. Some types of data that are stored on cloud service may be restricted for certain group of users. For instance, employees from one department cannot access data from other departments.
Premises with laptops and local servers are equipped with an alarm system and are closed during non-working hours. At any time, premises cannot be accessed without key and password.
8. How can you control your personal data?
You have the right to access, rectify or have your personal data erased or restricted from processing or to object to the processing of your personal data. If processing is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
Information we collect may be transferred to, stored and processed in any country where one or more EBA Member or third party service provider are located or maintain their facilities. Third parties may be located outside Ukraine or the European Economic Area ("EEA"), so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside Ukraine and the EEA, respectively.
In particular, we may share personal data of EBA Members’ employees with our mailing service provider – The Rocket Science Group LLC registered in the USA, in order to dispatch newsletters, invitations, offers, etc.
We also may share personal data with the operator of our cloud service – Microsoft Corporation registered in the USA, in order to provide the storage of information.
Data may also be transferred to Google LLC by the use of cookies by Google Analytics. In this case, Google LLC serves as the processor of such data.
While such territories may not have the same standards of data protection as those within your home country, we will continue to protect the personal information we transfer in accordance with this Policy.
business resources
Events, News, Lobbing, Development, Media, more…
This site uses cookies to offer you better browsing experience.
