about Mother for Ukraine
Our Mission is one of direct action. We are delivering Humanitarian Aid to the people of Ukraine and bringing refugees to safe locations. We are also developing relationships to help achieve this goal. Supporting children is primary to our mission: Orphanages, Centers for Children, Activities for Children.
Things To Do
501(c)(3) Charitable Organization
As a 501c3 any donations you make are tax deductible. We are all volunteers here so all of your donations will go directly towards our mission of helping the people of Ukraine.
We are on the ground in Ukraine giving a helping hand to the people. They need your support.
Distributing Humanitarian Aid
Is What We Do
Regardless of how you feel about the war in Ukraine, the people of Ukraine are in dire need of help. We directly deliver Humanitarian Aid ourselves. We facilitate deliveries thru logistics and fundraising. We also help extract vulnerable people from dangerous areas and provide them temporary housing.
Funding
We are already up and running – the more funding you give, the more Aid we can deliver.
Humanitarian Aid
Everyone in Ukraine needs a helping hand right now – especially the Children.
Informing You
Through this website and social media we will let you know exactly what we are doing.
Here is our Amazing Team
We work hard because we believe in the cause. None of us take a salary – we are volunteers.
Ian Netupsky
President / CEO
Ian is both the Founder and our ‘Boots on the Ground’ as he spends most of his time in Ukraine and Poland.
ian@motherukraine.org
Jonathan Ross
Fundraising & Logistics
Jonathan wears a few hats and works hard to keep supplies flowing so we can continue supplying Humanitarian Aid.
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Timothy P. Ryan
CFO
Timothy makes sure that our funding is properly allocated and fully ‘above board.’
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Things to do – Goals to Achieve
About our Organization
Our primary focus is providing Humanitarian Aid to civilians; they all need some help but especially the children and the elderly. We are a small group who are donating our time so all of your donations will go directly to helping the people of Ukraine.
A Brief History of Mother for Ukraine
In March 2022, shortly after the war broke out, Ian Netupsky was compelled to do more to help Ukraine and Ukrainians. Some refer to it as a calling. He packed his bags and flew over to Poland to aid in the humanitarian crisis, specifically with the refugee crisis. Ian’s motto is “go big or go home” so he went big. Ian rented a 9-passenger van and the largest house he could find close to the Hrebenne/Rava Ruska border and hit the ground running. He had planned on staying for 1 week and stayed for 3 months.
During the 1st several weeks of the war and using his own money, Ian housed, fed, and cared for over 100 refugees along with volunteers from all over the world. Within 24 hours of being at the border, Ian was already housing 7 refugees and bringing supplies across the border into Ukraine. Others soon recognized Ian’s determination and mission-oriented mindset, and it wasn’t long before word spread of the work he was doing and soon organizations in Ukraine were reaching out to him for help. They realized that when Ian accepted a mission, it would get done. Ian and the group he put together go where the large NGO’s won’t. Ian has helped extract people trapped by war and has delivered hundreds of tons of humanitarian aid to areas hardest hit by the war.
Ian continued to “push out” his departure from Ukraine – staying for 3 months in Poland and Ukraine to provide humanitarian aid. During this time, Ian gained extensive knowledge of how things get done on the ground. He developed significant contacts and relationships throughout Ukraine and Europe and currently works with several humanitarian aid organizations in Ukraine, Europe the United States. During the 3 months, Ian crossed the Poland/Ukraine over 25 times brining supplies in and displaced people out. Ian and his group of volunteers risk their lives to make sure the humanitarian aid is getting to the front line.
In June, Ian returned to Charlotte, NC. Prior to the war, Ian had planned to move to Colorado this past summer. Instead he put his life “on hold” and moved to Ukraine. In July Ian started a U.S. based non-profit, Mother for Ukraine to raise money through tax deductible donations. Ian sold off most of belongings putting the proceeds into MFU’s bank account. He put his personal belongings in storage and headed back to Ukraine on October 10th 2022 for an “extended period of time” to continue the humanitarian aid work he started back in March.