🚛 Why We Need Help to Deliver Critical Gear to Ukrainian Defenders?

A container packed with high-quality American-made field gear goes from a warehouse in Colorado, USA to our distribution center Rivne, Ukraine—but we need your help to get it there.
When the gear is sorted, packed and ready by our U.S. volunteers, we still need to pay the delivery costs to ensure that defenders units will receive it and that this mission-critical supplies reache the front lines.
Click "Ship the Gear!" button below to help – every dollar moves the container forward.

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📦 What’s in the Container?

Packed by a team of dedicated U.S. volunteers, the container usually includes:

Backpacks, bags and pouches
Load bearing vests and knee pads
Tactical uniforms and boots
Camelbacks and water canteens
Sleeping bags and self-inflating mats
Other gear requested directly by units in Ukraine

All items are based on the requests we receive from defenders through multiple messengers. No fluff—just what’s needed to survive and succeed on the front.

To help get the gear into the right hands – click "Ship the Gear!"

💸 Why Delivery Costs Matter

Getting gear into a war zone isn't simple, as many shipping companies won’t handle it. International transportation, customs paperwork, and overland delivery across USA and Europe add up fast—especially for full-sized 40 ft containers with 40 pallets of gear! But we have experience doing so – we shipped 4 such containers (60,000lb of gear!) in 2024 alone!

Shipping a container is often a major expense – approximately $10,000 total – but contains enough gear to help 1000-2000 defenders. So it works out to be still much more efficient than any other form of shipping from USA to Ukraine - just $5-10 per person that receive the aid.

Your support directly pays for fuel, logistics, and safe delivery from Colorado to Rivne—from where trusted Ukrainian volunteers distribute gear to the individual defenders and small units, all across the front line.

Click "Ship the Gear!" to help - we need the funds to move the gear, and defenders need the gear to keep up their fight!

🎯 Who Will Receive the Gear?

Our own local team in Rivne personally receives and unpack each shipment, ensuring everything goes where it's needed most—fast and efficiently. Then we distribute aid in Ukraine to hundreds of individual defenders per month, based on the requests they submit through our web form online and our team members verify and validate.

We also work closely with a few small groups of defenders - vetted military units inside Ukraine we’ve collaborated with for long time. These are the same teams we've supported in past projects with medical supplies, drones and detectors, and more.

To help us with this operation - click "Ship the Gear!" button above

✅ The Gear Is Here. Let’s move it where it’s needed!

Shipping a container isn’t a "someday" plan—one container is on the way, and the next one is in preparation. We need your help now - your donation will help cover the final stretch of a journey.

Click "Ship the Gear!" to help get this gear into the hands of those who need it most.

Next Steps:

1. Please click "Ship the Gear!" button to support this cause with any payment card or other donation options, and track the progress of this fundraiser on this web page. This page will also show your name and your contribution, or you can choose to donate anonymously.

2. Once you complete your donation, you will be prompted to share this campaign on social media—please consider doing so. And add a personal note for your friends for extra karma points. Each repost can engage more supporters and save additional lives.

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Who we are:

Sunflower Seeds Ukraine is an all-volunteer organization, with a mission to save lives and strengthen the resolve of Ukrainian Defenders, by providing medical aid and protective gear to small groups of defenders. Thanks to our multinational operation, dedicated team in Ukraine, and direct contacts at the front lines, we respond flexibly and efficiently to the most urgent needs in the hottest part of the front line.

Sunflower Seeds Ukraine is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in Colorado. (EIN 99-3371103). Contributions to Sunflower Seeds Ukraine are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by the U.S. law.

Help us Ship the Gear!

By Sunflower Seeds Ukraine

Help us Ship the Gear!

This project supports transportation of a fully loaded container of field gear from USA to Ukraine. When the gear is collected and sorted in Colorado, we need to get it into the right hands. Help us with the shipping costs – click "Ship the Gear!"

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