What Help Us Help does

Help Us Help is a federally registered Canadian charitable organization founded in 1993 and headquartered at 2445 Bloor Street W in Toronto, Ontario. It also operates as a US 501(c)(3) entity under the name Help Us Help The Children. The organization's mission is delivering humanitarian aid and educational programs to orphaned and institutionalized children in Ukraine and to Ukrainian combat veterans and their families affected by conflict since 2014.

The organization's core service portfolio is built around three marquee programs: Ruslana's Summer Camp, an annual two-week residential camp in the Carpathian Mountains hosting orphaned and institutionalized Ukrainian children in a trauma-informed environment; a Winter Camp in Vorokhta launched in 2004 serving approximately 100 children per cycle; and a Scholarship Program established in 1998 providing financial and mentorship support to former institutionalized youth pursuing post-secondary education, with over 350 alumni. The veterans program, branded The Return/Повернення, delivers reorientation, adaptation, and reintegration services including peer-to-peer training for spouses, family retreats, weekly support groups, and post-combat humanitarian assistance, using the Bodynamic somatic therapy approach introduced to Ukraine in 2015. Adjacent initiatives include an Anti-Trafficking Initiative and AIDS Awareness programs.

The business model is donation-funded. Revenue streams include individual and corporate donations collected via the website and digital fundraising platforms, volunteer-organized campaigns across Canada, the USA, and Ukraine, and a $10 million Temerty Endowment Fund established in 2021 by the Temerty Foundation as the leadership gift of the Silver Lining Campaign. All programs and services are provided free of charge to beneficiaries. Programs are delivered through direct in-country presence in Ukraine and through partner organizations including Veteran Hub, IREX, and the Ukrainian Public Union of Veterans Побратими. The organization does not develop or sell technology products.

Name

Help Us Help

Legal name

Help Us Help

Website

https://helpushelp.charity

Company type

Private

Founded year

1993

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Help Us Help is a Toronto-based Canadian charity founded in 1993 that delivers trauma-informed humanitarian aid and educational programs to orphaned and institutionalized Ukrainian children and to conflict-affected Ukrainian combat veterans and their families.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Humanitarian Aid and Charity Services

NAICS

Emergency and Other Relief Services (624230), Emergency and Other Relief Services (62423), Community Food and Housing, and Emergency and Other Relief Services (6242), Educational Support Services (611710), Other Individual and Family Services (624190)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Refugee, IDP & Migration Humanitarian Assistance (BPAGAAAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

MHPSS & Trauma-Informed Support for Displaced Populations (BPADAHAJ), Humanitarian Health & Emergency Medical Relief NGOs (HLAJAKAE), Newcomer & Refugee Student Support Programs (EDAJAGAH)

Keywords

• Humanitarian aid services
• Children's education programs
• Veteran support services
• Trauma-informed care
• Charitable donation programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Toronto

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Charitable Donations: The organization raises funds through individual and corporate donations, with donors contributing to support vulnerable children and veterans in Ukraine. Donations are received via the organization's website and various fundraising platforms.
2. Temerty Endowment Fund: A $10 million endowment fund established by the Temerty Foundation that provides ongoing funding for humanitarian aid, anti-human trafficking initiatives, educational projects, mental health supports and life-skills development workshops.
3. Volunteer-Organized Fundraising: Volunteers organize and implement numerous fundraisers, campaigns, and awareness events across Canada, the U.S.A., and Ukraine to cover operating costs.

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Help Us Help delivers free humanitarian aid and educational programs serving orphaned and institutionalized Ukrainian children and combat-affected Ukrainian veterans and their families. Core deliverables include annual trauma-informed Summer and Winter camps in the Carpathian Mountains and Vorokhta, a post-secondary Scholarship Program with mentorship and life-skills workshops, and The Return/Повернення veteran reintegration program using the Bodynamic somatic therapy approach, all funded by charitable donations.

Product overview

Help Us Help is a charitable organization offering humanitarian aid and educational programs in Ukraine. The organization operates three marquee programs: (1) Summer and Winter camps that provide children in residential institutions with life skills training, trauma-informed support, and recreational activities; (2) a Scholarship Program that provides financial and mentorship support for orphaned youth pursuing post-secondary education; and (3) the Veterans Program (The Return/Повернення) offering psychological support, peer-to-peer training, and reintegration services for combat veterans and their families. Additional initiatives include Anti-Trafficking and AIDS Awareness programs. The organization was founded in 1993 and has delivered over $30 million in charitable aid.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Ruslana's Summer Camp: The HUH Summer Camp Program named in honor of founder Ruslana Wrzesnewskyj for her years of dedication to the children of Ukraine. Named by the Temerty Foundation as part of their $10 million donation.
• The Return/Повернення
• Scholars Program

Products and services

• Ruslana's Summer Camp Annual two-week summer camp held in the Carpathian Mountains providing orphaned and institutionalized Ukrainian children with educational workshops, outdoor activities, mental health support, medical checkups, and team-building activities in a trauma-informed environment; the 2026 program plans to welcome 200 children.
• Winter Camp Annual winter camp held in Vorokhta, Ukraine, hosting approximately 100 children from orphanages and providing societal and life-skills training for orphans, displaced children, and children of fallen soldiers.
• Scholarship Program Post-secondary education support program providing financial assistance and mentorship (through seminars and life-skills workshops) to orphaned children pursuing post-secondary education in Ukraine; selection is based on leadership, scholastic merit, extracurricular activities, and commitment to a positive lifestyle, with 33 scholars supported in 2023-2024 and 350+ alumni in total.
• The Return/Повернення (Veterans Program) Reorientation, adaptation, and reintegration programs for Ukrainian combat veterans (serving since 2014 ATO/JFO) and their families, including peer-to-peer training for spouses, family retreats, weekly support group meetings, and post-combat humanitarian assistance; uses the Bodynamic somatic therapy approach for combat trauma.
• Anti-Trafficking Initiative Program aimed at preventing human trafficking among vulnerable children living in residential institutions in Ukraine.
• AIDS Awareness Programs Educational programs to raise awareness about AIDS/HIV among at-risk youth populations in Ukraine.
• Mobile Support Services for Veterans Mobile support services delivering psychological, legal, case management, and employment support to Ukrainian combat veterans in remote areas of Kyiv oblast who cannot travel; run by Veteran Hub in partnership with Help Us Help and IREX.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 10,000 children helped from dozens of cities across Ukraine
• +3 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

No

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Core technology

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Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Veteran HubcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerVeteran Hub runs mobile support services for veterans in Kyiv oblast in partnership with Help Us Help and IREX. Professional support staff travel to remote areas to provide psychological, legal, case management and employment support to veterans with reduced mobility.
• Побратими (Pobratymy)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUkrainian Public Union of Veterans - Побратими is a joint implementing partner for The Return/Повернення project, providing veteran reintegration and support programs.
• IREXcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIREX supports mobile support services for veterans in the Kyiv oblast, working with Help Us Help and Veteran Hub to provide psychological, legal, case management and employment support to veterans.
• Balaklava BluesminorGTM or Marketing PartnerProminent Ukrainian duo Mark and Marichka Marczyk created a music video featuring activities from Ruslana's Summer Camp, starring Vova and Andriy, an orphan who has directly benefited from HUH programming and is a Temerty Scholarship Fund recipient. This collaboration supports awareness and fundraising efforts.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Others

• IREX: IREX is an international development organization partnering with Help Us Help on the Veteran Hub mobile support program; comparable in operating internationally on education and civil-society programming, and listed as a Core strategic partner to Help Us Help.

Direct peers

• Razom for Ukraine: Razom is a Ukrainian-American nonprofit delivering humanitarian aid and programming for vulnerable populations in Ukraine, with overlapping focus areas (displaced persons, education, war relief) comparable to Help Us Help's children and veterans portfolios.
• Nova Ukraine: Nova Ukraine is a US-based nonprofit funding humanitarian aid, education, and orphan support in Ukraine, with a similarly diaspora-driven fundraising model and overlapping focus on children in institutions.
• United Help Ukraine: United Help Ukraine is a US-registered 501(c)(3) providing humanitarian aid, medical supplies, and rehabilitation support to conflict-affected populations in Ukraine — directly comparable in target beneficiaries and aid delivery model.
• Veterans Affairs Canada / Veteran Hub Ukraine: Veteran Hub is Help Us Help's direct implementing partner on the Kyiv oblast mobile veteran support program — overlapping beneficiaries, services (psychological, legal, case management), and trauma-informed care model.
• Sunflower Child Care (formerly Sunflower of Peace): A North American-diaspora nonprofit delivering humanitarian aid and child welfare programming in Ukraine; comparable operational model to Help Us Help across camps, scholarships, and donor outreach.

Regional players

• Canada-Ukraine Foundation: A Canadian charitable foundation supporting humanitarian, educational, and development projects in Ukraine with diaspora-driven fundraising comparable to Help Us Help's Canadian-based model.

Broad incumbents

• SOS Children's Villages International: A global NGO operating residential care, family strengthening, and education programs for orphaned and vulnerable children — comparable in beneficiary type but at much larger institutional scale than Help Us Help's camp-based model.
• Save the Children (Ukraine): Save the Children delivers child-focused humanitarian aid, education, and protection services in Ukraine with comparable mission alignment to Help Us Help's children programs but at global-NGO scale.
• UNICEF Ukraine: UNICEF operates child welfare, education, and humanitarian programming across Ukraine at vastly greater scale; comparable mandate and target population to Help Us Help but as a UN agency rather than grassroots nonprofit.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/helpushelp.charity

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A

Investments

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