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50-513: The Foundation was created by  SCM Holdings  as part of the implementation of its corporate social responsibility policy. Before March 2008 , the Foundation for Development of Ukraine functioned as SCM Group's corporate charitable foundation. Since 19 March 2008, the Foundation for Development of Ukraine has been operating as a private charity of Rinat Akhmetov, the main shareholder of SCM Group, while remaining SCM's permanent partner in

100-656: A father. Children receive answers to questions that are of interest for everyone, as well as advice that dads in two-parent families give to their children. The Foundation and the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine have created a joint special-purpose project for Ukrainian teachers – an educational series Quarantine: Online Services for Teachers. The project is a series of video courses helping teachers to master some advanced tools of distance learning based on online services, such as Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, Cisco Webex, Zoom, Class Dojo and Classtime. These tools open up

150-563: A finalist in the international Corporate Engagement Awards. Together with the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine and the Association of Anaesthesiologists of Ukraine, the Foundation created a series COVID-19: What You Need to Know About the Work of Ventilators. This general overview series in the format of a mini-interview explains how lung ventilators work, describes the functionality of this equipment's modern models, and gives an idea of how

200-550: A gynaecology room (with an ultrasonic diagnostics de-vice, a colposcope, and equipment for collecting cytological material) and a mammology room where women undergo mammography (breast X-ray examination). On 4 February 2022, the Foundation and the National Cancer Institute signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to join their efforts for higher level of cancer prevention and diagnostics in Ukraine. This first systematic program of

250-532: A half million of them received help in Donbas in the framework of the program Rinat Akhmetov Humanitarian Center. In March 2021, the Foundation teamed up with British experts and made a survey of the social impact from the project Food Assistance to Population. The social value of the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation's help to beneficiaries is worth more than $ 1 billion. In 2017, the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation ranked

300-470: A half million people survive and prevented the humanitarian catastrophe in Donbas. In July 2021, the Foundation opened the first and only Museum of Civilian Voices in Ukraine to date (web site: civilvoicesmuseum.org ). It is an unprecedented online project documenting the fate of ordinary people affected by the armed conflict in Donbas. Its goal is to document accounts or stories of the armed conflict's eyewitnesses as fully and impartially as possible. For now,

350-566: A large bank. In telecommunications, SCM has a fixed line business, Vega Telecom group. The Group's media interests include the newspaper Segodnya and Ukraina Media Group . The group is also in the real estate business and owns two five star hotels – one in Kyiv and one in Donetsk . SCM group also includes assets in heavy engineering, clay production, transportation, agriculture, and retail businesses. On 22 February 2022, when hundreds of people took to

400-404: A leader in national child adoption. Overall, more than five million children received support under the program Rinat Akhmetov for Children. Since 2013, the Foundation has been helping children diagnosed with heart disease, and in 2017, this area developed into a separate project Rinat Akhmetov for Children. Healthy Heart. The Foundation cooperates with the country's leading clinics. Doctors remedy

450-529: A new online format of the project that is primarily targeted at teenagers who need to invest a lot of effort in this life in order to realize their potential in a professional domain. The program No to Orphanhood! began its activities on 1 June 2008. In its framework, the national child adoption portal Rinat Akhmetov for Children. No to Orphanhood! has been operating for more than a decade now.(website: sirotstvy.net ) The Foundation helped create 41 family-type orphanages that have adopted more than 400 children across

500-503: A person feels when connected to the device, as well as what doctors do with a patient and why. Since 2005, the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation has been implementing national-level projects aimed at addressing social challenges of the Ukrainian society. The Foundation has a pool of about 70 projects and programs in the field of healthcare, education and culture. Most of the Foundation's projects are permanent or long-run initiatives. They are based on

550-408: A project Rinat Akhmetov for Children. Peaceful Summer. Within its framework, almost 4,500 children from Donetsk and Luhansk regions underwent health recovery and recuperation courses in summer camps. The emphasis in the children's program was on psychological rehabilitation. Boys and girls participating in the program were taught to deal with their fears and mitigate anxiety The project Your Superpower

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600-513: A whole range of opportunities that make teaching and learning online as modern, convenient and comprehensible as possible. Jointly with the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine and Shakhtar Football Club, the Foundation presented an educational series Digital Physical Education for Schoolchildren with the Participation of Sports Stars. The purpose of the educational series was to motivate schoolchildren isolated from their schoolmates due to

650-654: Is a major Ukrainian financial and industrial holding company established in 2000 in Donetsk , Ukraine. It is currently headquartered in Limassol , Cyprus. The business is controlled by Ukrainian businessman and oligarch Rinat Akhmetov , who owns 100% of the company's shares. In 2011, the group had revenues of around $ 19.5 billion and assets worth over $ 28.4 billion. The company includes over 100 businesses in metals and mining, power generation, banking and insurance, telecommunications , media, real estate, and others. SCM employs approximately 200,000 people. The group

700-497: Is a series of motivational meetings between famous and successful people and boarding schoolers or orphanage pupils. The goal of the project is to help children left without parental care discover their talents that would allow them to be successful and happy. Since December 2018, 10 ambassadors of the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation have held 41 motivational meetings in nine boarding schools of the Donetsk region. More than 1,000 children attended

750-613: Is audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers . As of May 2022, SCM ( dba SCM Consulting Ltd) was represented in the United States by the Washington, D.C. based public relations firm Qorvis LLC . The biggest company in the SCM Group is Metinvest , involved in the mining and steel business. It is one of Ukraine's largest private business and one of the biggest steel producers in Europe. It is also

800-477: Is the aggressor and Putin is a war criminal. In addition, he stressed that the Foundation will be helping people survive by supplying food and medicines, and SCM businesses will be helping the Ukrainian Army defend the country's sovereignty. From 24 February to 1 June 2022, it was reported that the Foundation, Rinat Akhmetov's businesses and FC Shakhtar donated UAH 2.4 billion to help Ukraine. As of 3 June 2022,

850-547: The COVID lockdown to do sports individually and follow a healthy lifestyle. The educational series consists of 12 physical education lessons that will be conducted by famous football players. The lessons are conducted by the players of Shakhtar football club – the team's captain Andriy Pyatov and centre-back player Serhiy Kryvtsov. The performers of the comedy TV project Mamahohotala Show Oleh Maslyuk and Yevhen Yanovych also took part in

900-451: The Foundation became operational in January 2006 and aimed at supporting people who found themselves in difficult life circumstances and in need of urgent medical treatment. Often such help to a particular person grew into broader assistance to entire institutions. Many of the Foundation's activity areas have grown out of this program. They then developed into separate projects and are now part of

950-425: The Foundation has been implementing large-scale projects aiming to provide systematic support to public healthcare. In February 2020, in the framework of the program Rinat Akhmetov – Saving Lives, the Foundation created a project Fighting COVID-19 in Ukraine. Rinat Akhmetov spent ₴500 million to fight the coronavirus. This is the largest contribution of one philanthropist to the public healthcare sector of Ukraine over

1000-429: The Foundation provided more than 500,000 units of medicines to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. The mission of the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation is to help people in Ukraine and create opportunities to become better and live better using the Foundation's own achievements and global experience of philanthropy. For the sake of the future. Within the framework of the program Rinat Akhmetov – Saving Lives, for many years,

1050-523: The Foundation provided more than 600,000 units of medicines, more than 60,000 blood transfusion bags and over 187,000 food packages for Ukrainian people. Since the beginning of the full-scale war, the Foundation has also rendered psychological support to internally displaced persons from zones of military hostilities. Its emergency psychological support points operate in Zaporizhzhia, Lviv and Uzhhorod. Since 24 February 2022, more than 1,480 people have received

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1100-488: The Foundation provided to public healthcare institutions in the country In 2012, the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation purchased and equipped accordingly a mobile health diagnostics complex unique for Ukraine. The Mobile Women's Health Consultation for the National Cancer Institute is a specially configured 18-meter long vehicle built according to a European model to be used for comprehensive examination of women's reproductive system organs. This mobile clinic has two specialized rooms –

1150-409: The Foundation together with VOGUE magazine and with the support from TSUM Kyiv shopping centre launched a project #RAKNEVYROK. Its main task is to show, using the example of real-life stories of its heroines, that life after the di-agnosis is possible and cancer can definitely be defeated. #RAKNEVYROK became a continua-tion of the program CANCER CAN BE CURED that the Foundation launched in 2008. It became

1200-470: The Museum has collected 13,000 personal stories. The goal is to collect and preserve 100,000 such stories by 2025. On 16 November 2001, Rinat Akhmetov visited pupils of boarding schools and orphanages for the first time. This date is considered the starting date of the annual Campaign Rinat Akhmetov for Children. Since 2008, the Foundation has been consistently working on the prevention of orphanhood and has become

1250-606: The Russian invasion deliver food and essentials and support critical infrastructure facilities. The company calls for carriers to join the network and become logistics partners. Luhansk TPP was shelled on February 22, 2022, on the eve of the Russian invasion, during the escalation in certain areas of Donetsk Region and Luhansk Region (CADLR). It was the major source of heat and power in those regions. DTEK noted that restoration works could be carried out only in case of ceasefire. In his comments to The Wall Street Journal , Ahmetov,

1300-534: The Saving Lives humanitarian project, which supplies food to IDPs as well as helps evacuate and accommodate people. Metinvest, UMG Investments , DTEK and other SCM businesses have joined efforts to create a national and international network of carriers to supply humanitarian aid during wartime, the Logistics Front. The objective of the logistics network is to help people as well as towns and cities affected by

1350-475: The Ukrainians. This can neither be explained nor justified." Since the outbreak of the war, SCM businesses together with the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation (ex- Foundation for Development of Ukraine ) and FC Shakhtar Donetsk have channeled over ₴1.4 billion ($ 48 million) to help Ukraine. This included the following assistance: SCM's Metinvest and DTEK have joined efforts with the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation to launch

1400-416: The army and territorial defence forces defend our sovereignty, our freedom and independence, and win the war," he stated. Akhmetov stated that SCM was using its international connections and opportunities to communicate to their international partners that Ukrainians were dying and suffering because of Russia's aggression: "What is unfolding here is a war crime and a crime against humanity, against Ukraine and

1450-466: The best sanatoriums of Ukraine: to rest and recover physically and psychologically according to individually picked rehabilitation methods. For some children, this process takes several years, and for many of them, recovery after an injury is a lifelong challenge. The Foundation arranged 139 courses of rehabilitative treatment for children that received injuries. The Foundation also provides psychological support for children from Donbas. In 2015, it launched

1500-438: The country's citizens named the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation the largest charitable organization in Ukraine. In February 2022, with the beginning of a new phase of the war between Russia and Ukraine, the Foundation focused its efforts on humanitarian aid to Ukraine and Ukrainians. This included food assistance packages for population and medicines for public hospitals. From the outbreak of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine ,

1550-412: The country. Thanks to the program and the portal, more than 10,000 children from boarding schools and orphanages have found happiness in new families. The Foundation's longest-running and large-scale New Year's charity tradition began on 16 November 2001. Back then, Rinat Akhmetov visited boarding schoolers and pupils of children's orphanages for the first time. About one million children received gifts in

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1600-502: The disease by means of a special implant – an occluder. This is the most modern and non-traumatic method of treatment after which a young patient can be released home in a few days. In addition, the project itself enabled doctors to master modern methods of heart disease treatment. To date, 126 operations have been performed. The Foundation has been helping children with hearing impairments since 2007. The project Rinat Akhmetov for Children. I Can Hear Now has been active since 2018. Thanks to

1650-482: The experience the Foundation gained during the implementation of Read more:  Rinat Akhmetov Humanitarian Center . With the outbreak of the war in Donbas in 2014, the Humanitarian Center was established on the basis of the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation to help civilians affected by the war. The Center evacuated people from trouble spots, distributed humanitarian food packages and helped treat and rehabilitate

1700-504: The first among the Top 5 private charitable foundations of Ukraine. In addition, for many years, the Foundation has remained the best-known charitable organization in Ukraine and a leader in providing humanitarian aid. According to a survey by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS), this is the opinion the majority of Ukrainians expressed – 95% of population. During the KIIS survey, almost half of

1750-498: The first and largest program in Ukraine to provide help to adult cancer patients. In particular, this help included the purchase of some diagnostic equipment for cancer clinics in Ukraine, the purchase of equipment for complex surgical operations, the launch of a mobile women's health consultation, and much more. In the framework of the program, the Foundation helped to save one million lives of Ukrainians. Almost one-fourth of all Ukrainian citizens have access to modern diagnostic equipment

1800-575: The implementation of a large-scale project 200 Ambulances for Ukraine. Within the project's framework, public healthcare facilities in all the regions of the country received specially configured vehicles. Their fleet included vehicles of three configurations: ambulances for adult patients, resuscitation vehi-cles for new-borns and off-road or cross-country ambulance vehicles designed to run in moun-tainous areas and hard-to-reach settlements. These 200 special-purpose vehicles will enable doctors to save more than one million people annually. In early October 2021,

1850-447: The implementation of various projects in the field of charity . In 2014, the Foundation initiated its largest program, Rinat Akhmetov Humanitarian Center, in order to assist residents of Donbas who suffered from the armed conflict. During six years, the Foundation focused all of its resources on helping Donbass civilians affected by the armed conflict. Over 16 years of its work, the Foundation helped eight million people survive, three and

1900-482: The injured. As of May 2017, more than a million Donbas residents received assistance from the Humanitarian Center. On 26 February, the Foundation's Founder Rinat Akhmetov donated UAH 150 million for help: “Ukraine is in trouble and each of us is doing everything we can in order to help our country. I helped, I am helping and will continue to help the people of Ukraine”. Later, in early March, he said that Russia

1950-594: The largest Ukrainian producer of iron ore. In addition to Ukraine, Metinvest has assets in the US , Italy , UK , Bulgaria , and Switzerland . The second major company of the group is coal mining and power generation company DTEK . DTEK was formed in 2002. The nucleus of the complex consisted of Vostokenergo Power Generation Company, ServiceInvest Energy Company, and the coal mine Komsomolets Donbassa . The other companies ranged from scientifically oriented energy-sector companies to those in various social fields. SCM also owns

2000-455: The last 14 years. In 2019, the Foundation launched an online project Communication Without Barriers. It is aimed primarily at people without any hearing problems and will teach them not to be afraid of or ashamed to communicate with people who have hearing impairments. In 2020, the Foundation together with Ukraine TVchannel presenter Maksym Sikora launched a digital project Ask Dad. It is a video blog for orphaned boys and children raised without

2050-608: The list. SCM Group prepared the first corporate social responsibility report in Ukraine in 2005. On 1 December 2011, SCM was honored at the Business Leadership Roundtable and Corporate Social Responsibility Awards Luncheon held during Ukraine's 20th Anniversary of Independence Gala events in Washington, D.C. On 15 December 2011, SCM took the first place at the National CSR Business Case 2011 Contest for its Contemporary Education social programme. At

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2100-400: The meetings. In December 2021, the Foundation conducted a motivational online lesson Your Superprofession. More than 5,000 viewers watched the lesson broadcast. Thus, the motivational online lesson attracted the largest number of viewers and set the national record of Ukraine. In January 2022, the Foundation released the second season of its educational series Your Superprofession. This series is

2150-560: The owner of the two biggest Mariupol metallurgy plants, Azovstal Iron and Steel Works and Illich Steel and Iron Works , stated that both plants were under Ukrainian control but had been temporarily shut down. "Russian troops are turning Mariupol into rubble, killing Mariupol residents and bombing the plants," he said. "Under no circumstances will these plants operate under the Russian occupation." On March 13, 2022, Metinvest Group's Avdiivka Coke Plant came under heavy shelling. The shells damaged two coke shops and some other facilities of

2200-595: The plant. No one was injured. In February 2023, all of Akhmetov's assets in Russian occupied Donbas were confiscated. The local Russian-installed authorities stated as a reason for the seizure that Akhmetov was a "rogue individual." In September 2011, under USAID support, the Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility Development published the results of the first Ukraine's Companies' Transparency Index . The top ten list included three SCM Group companies: System Capital Management, Metinvest and DTEK, with DTEK as number one in

2250-508: The program Rinat Akhmetov for Children. These are the projects Rehabilitation of Injured Children, Medications for Children, Healthy Heart, and I Can Hear Now. The Foundation's largest program Rinat Akhmetov – Here to Help was launched in 2014. Its aim is to help civilians from Donbas affected by the armed conflict. According to a survey of the Foundation's social impact conducted by the British company Envoy Partnership, this program helped three and

2300-405: The project, more than 200 boys and girls received high-sensitivity hearing aids (earphones) adaptable to children's individual needs. These devices allow them to develop in a full-fledged manner and be on par with their healthy peers. In March 2016, the Foundation launched a project Rehabilitation of Injured Children. Thanks to it, children with severe injuries were able to undergo rehabilitation in

2350-647: The psychological assistance. The Project was established to cover expensive and complex treatment courses, including treatment of children, which cannot be totally funded by the state and the national budget. Assistance in emergencies project is to provide help to those who suffered from natural and manmade disasters. Support was rendered to victims and people whose relatives died in the blasts in Dnepropetrovsk, at Zasyadko, Krasnolimanskaya, Karl Marx, Duvannaya coal mines. SCM Holdings System Capital Management ( Ukrainian : Систем Кепітал Менеджмент ) or SCM

2400-413: The series. In 2021, the Foundation received a number of prestigious awards. In particular, the educational project Digital Physical Education, which is part of the project Fighting COVID-19 in Ukraine, won in two categories of a prestigious international award IPRA Golden World Awards. It also received three gold awards and two silver awards in the reputable European Digital Impact Awards, as well as became

2450-483: The streets of Mariupol protesting against Russia's invasion into Ukraine , Akhmetov announced that the company was going to pay $ 34 million in taxes upfront to bolster Ukraine's treasury. Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, Akhmetov stated that the company's goal in war conditions was to help Ukrainians withstand the invasion: "My Foundation is helping Ukrainians survive by providing water, food, medicines, and any help we can give here and now. SCM businesses are helping

2500-451: The time of the country's independence. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Foundation together with Ukraine TV channel launched a special national project #ThankDoctors. Its main goal is to tell the public about the daily feats of doctors fighting for the lives of their patients affected by COVID-19. In early July 2019, on the personal decision of Rinat Akhmetov, the Foundation began

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