Friend,

My name is Marta, and I lead Project HOPE’s Mental Health and Psychosocial team supporting families and health workers here in Ukraine. Every day, I see how war fractures lives. I see what it does to someone’s mental health. But I also see how dignity and HOPE can be restored — one person, one moment at a time.

Before 2025 ends where you are, will you make a generous tax-deductible gift before midnight? Right now, your donation will be 5X matched — up to $300,000 — to support my work in Ukraine and Project HOPE’s mission in 25+ countries.

Just days ago, many Ukrainian families observed Sviatyi Vechir — Christmas Eve — a tradition marked by gathering around the table and lighting a single candle to honor our loved ones who are far away or can’t come home.

🕯️ This year, for so many, that candle flickered with pain. The ache of absence. With grief. But it also burned with HOPE in the middle of war — fragile, enduring, and deeply needed. 🕯️

Here in Ukraine, it’s already 2026. And sadly, the new year does not mean the trauma or fear so many Ukrainians are living through has gone away. Drone attacks, displacement, and loss are still daily realities for so many of us.

That’s why your support tonight means everything. Friend, as 2025 comes to a close for you, please make your generous gift before midnight while it will go FIVE TIMES as far to help deliver mental health care and healing in Ukraine, and in the places around the world where help is needed most.

Healing takes time. It takes consistency. And it takes you. Thank you for being part of the Project HOPE supporter community, and for choosing to make 2026 a year filled with HOPE, for us all.

Shchyro dyakuyu (With sincere thanks),

Marta Stoian
Mental Health & Psychosocial Specialist
Project HOPE

*To inspire more supporters like you, a generous group of donors has created a special Year-End Matching Gift Challenge, where every $1 you donate can unlock $5 in impact, up to $300,000 until midnight on 12/31.