Razom Relief

On the front line, medical-unit leaders coordinate teams and ration scarce supplies in conditions where minutes decide whether a wounded person survives — yet many stepped into command without any formal management training. Razom’s Course for Leaders in Military Medicine, developed with Kyiv-Mohyla Business School and Ukraine’s military medical leadership, teaches team management, strategic planning, communication and crisis decision-making.

Participants apply it immediately in their units: stronger leaders build stronger medical units, and stronger units save lives.

The Pishchanska community in Dnipropetrovsk region is home to more than 400 veterans and 93 families of fallen defenders, but has no accessible space for physical recovery — reaching support means travelling over 50 kilometres to Dnipro. The veteran-led Samarskyi Kurin union has secured a building in Orlivshchyna and begun renovations with its own resources.

Funding equips the centre for adaptive sports and pays for a veteran trainer, coordinator and psychologist, giving at least 150 veterans and family members recovery close to home.

Village and small-town schools rarely have the kit or trained staff for hands-on robotics and engineering. This project brings LEGO® Education robotics to 14 schools in frontline, central and northern regions, trains 28 teachers, and gives 140 students aged 11–16 the chance to build real engineering projects, with inclusive teams that include children from displaced and military families.

It works: pupils at Shcherbanivsky Lyceum in war-affected Mykolaiv Oblast started with no robotics experience, won a national online competition, and travelled to Kyiv to build a robot designed to take routine tasks off hospital staff. The equipment stays in each school, turning them into local STEM hubs.

Years of war have wrecked jobs and household incomes in Zaporizhzhia, a major city close to the front. Razom’s partner, the adult education social enterprise ‘First’, runs an eight-month programme training 55 women as seamstresses on industrial equipment.

While they train, they produce adaptive clothing for wounded service members, and at least 40% are expected to be employed or self-employed within six months of finishing.