Leleka Foundation, in partnership with U.S. activist and journalist Alison Rochford, who is learning and promoting the Ukrainian language, is raising $10,000 to provide 400 tourniquets—enough to stock 40 tactical medical backpacks for Ukrainian medics on the front lines.

Each of these backpacks, assembled and delivered by Leleka, contains 10 tourniquets—a critical tool medics describe as essential. As one frontline medic told us: “These are the first things we pack, and often the first things we hand to soldiers heading to the line of fire.”

Why Tourniquets Matter

Tourniquets save lives. Their purpose is simple yet vital: to stop massive bleeding from limbs and prevent death from blood loss. In combat or disaster zones, bleeding out can happen in just 2–3 minutes. In fact:

80% of preventable deaths on the battlefield are caused by severe blood loss.
Two-thirds of those deaths could be avoided with properly applied tourniquets.

Quick, decisive action—grab, unwrap, apply, tighten—can make all the difference. On the battlefield, every second counts.

Tourniquets have become synonymous with survival. They’ve saved the lives of countless Ukrainian defenders—and even civilians, including a 9-year-old boy in Chernihiv who was wounded by shrapnel in a Russian missile strike. A tourniquet applied at the right time saved him.

Tourniquets are consumables. Medics need a constant supply. Without them, they can’t stop the bleeding. They can’t save lives.

That’s why Leleka Foundation and Alison Rochford are launching this urgent campaign:
$10,000 = 400 tourniquets = 400 lives saved.

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Leleka Foundation is a U.S.–Ukrainian charitable partnership delivering life-saving support to medics on Ukraine’s frontlines. Formed by two partners—Leleka Foundation, a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2014, and Charitable Foundation Leleka-Ukraine—we share one mission: to help field medics in Ukraine save lives on the frontlines, providing them lifesaving tools - medical supplies and devices, medical evacuation vehicles, anti-drone protection systems for such vehicles.

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