Three Years of War, Three Years of Solidarity: Our Journey Alongside the Ukrainian People

Today, February 24, 2025, marks the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Three years of war, three years of pain and resistance. Three years in which millions of people have seen their lives shattered, forced to flee, to be separated from their families, to seek refuge and hope elsewhere.

Faced with this tragedy, we chose to act.
Exactly one month after the outbreak of the conflict, when the suffering of the Ukrainian people was clear for all to see, private donors gave us the strength and means to set out. Thanks to their generosity, we organized the first humanitarian convoy, together with other Italian associations, bringing medicines, surgical supplies, medical equipment, and essential goods to those in urgent need… and since then, we have never stopped.

We have coordinated over twenty convoys, at first stopping at the Polish border, then pushing further into Chernovohrad, in the Lviv region. There, we delivered ambulances, vans, and 4×4 vehicles loaded with aid, supporting hospitals, reception centers, and local communities, as well as the many refugees fleeing from the occupied territories in the east.
If all of this was possible, it is because so many Italians never left us alone.

Thanks to their support, we were recognized as a trusted partner, later obtaining the essential backing of Banca Intesa Sanpaolo and, subsequently, the Emilia-Romagna Region. This was a crucial step: it provided stability and continuity to our mission, allowing us to expand our efforts and deliver aid where it was needed most.

In 2024, our local partners—and now, true friends—in Chernovohrad took an important step forward: they decided to strengthen the bond we had built by founding Bambini nel Deserto Ukraine, an autonomous humanitarian NGO recognized at the national level. Together, we have developed new projects, new concrete responses to the suffering of the population. But none of this would have been possible without the members, volunteers, and friends of Bambini nel Deserto who chose to leave everything behind and go.
Men and women who left their homes and loved ones to enter a country at war because they believed in one simple truth: the desire for peace.

To them, we extend our deepest and most heartfelt gratitude. Because every journey taken, every van filled with aid, every handshake exchanged along the way has been a message of hope stronger than any weapon. Today, in an increasingly fragile political landscape, our commitment cannot stop.
We will continue to provide aid as long as there are refugees and civilian victims of this senseless war.

The only limit is the resources we can gather.
But our determination, like our humanitarian convoys, knows no borders. Because our help has no flag, no side—it has only one purpose: to stand by those in need, wherever there is need.