We take food to villages and run art classes for children

A small team of two organizations in Mykolaiv, Charity Foundation "Touch of the Heart" and NGO "Sunrise of Dreams". Food kits for villages and communities in the Mykolaiv region, fuel briquettes in winter, an art studio for children and support for mothers.

Donations go to Charity Foundation "Touch of the Heart", EDRPOU 43142428.

The team packs food kits at the warehouse
This is what a kit looks like before it goes to a village. Photo from the team's reports.

Two organizations, one team

The two share an address (102 Velyka Morska St, Mykolaiv), people and some projects, but they are separate legal entities. That is why every project and every donation on this site names the organization that receives the money or does the work.

Receives donations

Charity Foundation "Touch of the Heart"

EDRPOU (registry code)43142428

Legal name (Ukrainian)
Благодійна організація Благодійний фонд "Дотик серця"
Status
Non-profit status code 0036
Details
Registered
31 July 2019
Head
Olena Shulha

Children, families, art studio

NGO "Sunrise of Dreams"

EDRPOU (registry code)41457050

Legal name (Ukrainian)
Громадська організація "Світанок мрій"
Details
Registered
12 July 2017
Head
Pavlo Shulha
Branches
Pervomaisk, Volyn, Council of Foster Parents of Mykolaiv Region

Since 2019, a local partner of Kidsave in the Family Visit Program in Kherson and Mykolaiv.

What we do

Four kinds of work in the team's reports. The numbers below count posts in the monthly reports of the "Sunrise of Dreams" group, October 2025 to September 2026. These are posts, not families or kits.

A forklift carries a pallet of food to the warehouse

Food kits for villages

We unload food trucks at the warehouse, pack kits at the office in Mykolaiv and deliver them to villages across the Mykolaiv region. Some kits are handed out at the office.

103 posts about food kits over the last 12 reported months. The reports name 19 villages and communities that received help.

Hands lift a bag of briquettes off a truck, with a stack of bags behind

Fuel briquettes

In winter we deliver fuel briquettes to villages. The season usually runs from November to March; in 2026 the first deliveries started as early as September, in Dobrokamianka on 24 Sep and Liubomyrivka on 30 Sep.

28 posts about fuel briquettes over the last 12 reported months.

An owl made of paper strips using the quilling technique, held in a palm

Art studio for children

Classes at the NGO office in Mykolaiv include monotype, Petrykivka painting, quilling, thread fairies, wire dragonflies and flowers made from cones. Some children come from the Korabelnyi district, according to the NGO report of 23 Sep 2026. The children also go on outings to the theatre, museums, an observatory and the zoo, and on a boat trip.

77 posts about children's activities over the last 12 reported months. Run by NGO "Sunrise of Dreams", EDRPOU 41457050.

A decorative tree of green beads fixed inside a hoop

Support for women and mothers

Together with the mobile team of Charity Foundation "Posmishka UA", we run psychosocial support sessions with art therapy for people in Mykolaiv. For teenagers there is the club "Siai, divchynko" ("Shine, girl") and the training "Laboratory of Adult Life".

39 posts about the joint work with Posmishka UA over the last 12 reported months.

How to support

Donations go to Charity Foundation "Touch of the Heart", EDRPOU 43142428.

  • A transfer from abroad needs the foundation's foreign-currency details and an intermediary bank.
  • The foundation cannot take recurring monthly card payments yet. This is the next step. Want to give monthly right now? Write to dotyks.bf@gmail.com.
  • For in-kind donations, please call +380 98 383 77 35 before dropping them off.
  • To volunteer, write to us and we will get back to you.

Recipient

Bank details are not published here yet. Please email us about a donation or use the phone number below.

Recipient
Charity Foundation "Touch of the Heart"
Legal name of the recipient (Ukrainian)
Благодійна організація Благодійний фонд "Дотик серця"
EDRPOU
43142428
Questions about a transfer
+380 98 383 77 35 dotyks.bf@gmail.com

How we run this site

Four rules govern every word and every photo that appears on this site.

Every donation names its recipient

Every donation button and every project carries the organization's name and its EDRPOU code.

Only what is in the reports

Numbers, dates and villages come from the team's reports, always with the period they cover. If something is not in the reports, we do not publish it.

Children's faces only with consent

Children's faces appear on the site only with their parents' consent.

No personal data

We do not publish names or details of the people we help. Photos of handouts show hands, bags and the vehicle.

Reports and documents

Monthly work reports with dates, villages and photos. The reports and the charter are published in Ukrainian.

If you need a document that is not listed here, please email us.