Our history
From volunteer drones — to a systematic humanitarian mission.
A technology team and volunteering
The initiators of the charitable foundation are entrepreneurs and IT specialists who have been working in the field of high technology for over 20 years. Most of them specialized in the development and production of unmanned aerial vehicles and specialized software, and provided drone-based survey services for territories and infrastructure facilities.
Drone operators and engineers were involved as volunteers for the needs of the national police and other security and humanitarian agencies — searching for people, monitoring facilities, assisting in the detection of property crimes, inspecting accident sites. More than 30 of our drone operators cooperated with local authorities and emergency services.
The first months of the full-scale war
From February 24, 2022, we significantly increased free assistance to government agencies to eliminate the effects of hostilities in the liberated territories. In the first two months of the war, about UAH 100 million was spent, along with the efforts of hundreds of volunteers.
Already at the beginning of March, when the scale of the problems became clear, we faced an acute shortage of equipment for humanitarian missions. Due to active hostilities, a large number of drones and off-road vehicles were lost, and all of our own resources were exhausted.
The foundation is established
Continuing the mission required institutionalization and the systematic attraction of external funds. That is why the Yellow-Blue Charitable Foundation was established in March 2022. The main donors of the foundation are Ukrainian IT companies, to which the foundation reports in accordance with the law.
Growth of our areas of work
Today, our team brings together, in addition to IT professionals, experienced managers, civil society leaders and researchers. The areas of the Yellow-Blue Foundation include humanitarian demining, humanitarian logistics, infrastructure monitoring and control, physical and psychological rehabilitation of veterans, and countering destructive information influence from Russia.
In April 2022, we saw a significant increase in the need for humanitarian aid and encountered organizational, accounting and logistics problems among other volunteer groups and foundations, which began to turn to us for technological assistance — applications for recording the targeted delivery of humanitarian cargo, tracking needs, and sorting and distributing aid. Such solutions increase the efficiency of work and the trust of donors.
We also saw the need for physical and psychological rehabilitation of people affected by the war, as well as the danger of the information space being saturated with destructive ideas. So the foundation's areas of work expanded significantly. We cooperate with community sports organizations that have rehabilitation specialists in order to meet the needs of tens of thousands of people throughout Ukraine.