BUILDING THE FUTURE
OF EDUCATION TOGETHER

With a generous $10,000 monthly budget for Google and Youtube Ads grants, Workspace, and more, we are poised to enhance our reach to a wider audience of supporters like never before. We are deeply grateful to Google for their commitment to empowering nonprofits and empowering a positive impact on education.

Moreover, we are proud to announce that the Bucha School has joined the Microsoft Tech for Social Impact program. Through this collaboration, we have secured a grant for 300 Microsoft 365 licenses, Azure, and other cloud solutions. This support will significantly enhance Bucha School’s IT infrastructure. Providing quality resources to children in a modern learning environment is a foundation of the stronger educational achievements. A heartfelt thank you to Microsoft for Nonprofits for their belief in our mission and their dedication to shaping the future of education in Bucha.

These partnerships with Google and Microsoft mark a significant milestone in our journey to provide the best possible education environment for Bucha community students. We look forward to leveraging these technology platforms to create a brighter future for Bucha community. We thank our valuable partners for continued support!

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“I am excited to see how our partnership evolves, and I am honoured to be part of their journey to make the world a better place,” said GlobalGiving CEO Victoria Vrana of the partnership with Support Fund for Bucha School.

This partnership enables Bucha School to reach a wider audience of individual, corporate and institutional donors that will help fund the new school in Bucha.

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About Support Fund for Bucha School

Support Fund for Bucha School is a non-profit organisation registered in Ukraine, which aims to build a modern school for 880 children in Bucha community. The new school has A energy class certificate and will be equipped with a dual-use shelter designed in accordance with the most recent changes in the regulation.

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With DREAM (Digital Restoration EcoSystem for Accountable Management), anyone, anywhere can now monitor the effectiveness and efficiency of the Bucha School project in real time. This means that all stakeholders can access vital insights to help mitigate risks, improve reporting accuracy, and enhance overall project performance.

Bucha School commitment to transparency is unwavering, and by embracing platforms like DREAM, we aim to foster trust and collaboration in the Ukraine reconstruction process. Together, we can redefine how projects are implemented and ensure that every effort contributes to building a brighter future for Ukraine communities.

You can visit Bucha School project profile on DREAM platform.

We are delighted to share Support Fund for Bucha School financial statements for fiscal year of 2023 prepared by the independent auditor BDO.

It was the first operating year for the Fund, which marked the successful completion of a design stage, workshops with the community and preparation for the construction permit issue. It has also set a solid foundation for a continuous work with our valued donors and partners that will continue even at the higher pace in 2024.

SUPPORT FUND FOR BUCHA SCHOOL, a non-profit organisation working to design and build a school/kindergarten in the city of Bucha (Ukraine), on June 18th, 2024, completed organisational changes that welcomed a new participant. 2L Architects & Engineers, who have been partners in the design of the school so far, joined the Fund's participation and decision-making team. 2L Architects & Engineers will contribute its invaluable experience in school construction and will replace Nullus UAB as a founding member of the Fund. The latter's withdrawal was initiated by the mutual agreement of the parties in order to protect the meaningful initiative of the Fund from the reputational risks currently faced by the Nullus' shareholder BaltCap Infrastructure Fond, due to an investigation launched to one of BaltCap's partners. We are pleased that, due to the collegial governance mechanism put in place at the time of the establishment of the SUPPORT FUND FOR BUCHA SCHOOL, the Fund has not suffered any harm and is not part of the investigation.

Due to the withdrawal of Nullus UAB, the SUPPORT FUND FOR BUCHA SCHOOL is no longer eligible for APVA (Aplinkos projektų valdymo agentūra - Environmental Project Management Agency, Lithuania) support under the successful application submitted by Nullus UAB, and therefore the contract between APVA and Nullus UAB has been terminated and, in this context, the amount reserved for the project, but cancelled through no fault of the Fund, will be subtracted from the amount of the donor contributions received to date and the amount of the donors' fixed commitments. On the other hand, we understand that reputation and stability are often more important than the promised subsidies, so we would like to thank the participants of the SUPPORT FUND FOR BUCHA SCHOOL: BT Invest UAB and the public institution 1K fund (VšĮ Vienas K paramos fondas), our partner and new participant 2L Architects & Engineers, who have been actively contributing to our noble cause to date, and those who have supported the fund with their competences, work and funding: Baust architects, hx6n - Hexagon Agency, Panevėžio statybos trestas, Novus Ukraine, FIRST PICK and all donors.

Our sincere thanks goes to all those who donated and believed in meaningful initiative of the SUPPORT FUND FOR BUCHA SCHOOL to build a school fully compliant with the requirements of the Ukrainian law and influenced by the best European solutions and innovations already applied in Lithuania. The school/kindergarten will be energy-efficient, independent of the city's heating network, gas, designed with a solar power plant on the roof of the entire building, geothermal boreholes that will not only provide full heat but also passive cold during the warm season. It will also have a stadium and a bomb shelter, as required in Ukraine, for all the staff and pupils (720 pupils and 160 kindergarten children), which will, among other things, have a number of alternative uses that will allow the use of this part of the building in the day-to-day running of the school/kindergarten.  The school/ kindergarten is planned to be fully finished and equipped and, after commissioning, will be donated to the town of Bucha with all its infrastructure and land plot. We hope that the school project, which has been prepared in accordance with modern requirements, will later be used as a model design for the construction of educational facilities throughout Ukraine.

On November 24, architect team went to Bucha to present the interior design of the school to the most important audience — students, teachers, school management, and the Bucha municipality administration. The students examined each floor drawing in detail and shared their novel ideas with the architects to galvanise further improvements. The team also gathered feedback on the interior design of the future school and kindergarten from teachers and educators.

At the moment we are working on school interior, and the team of architects will make sure to include all the amazing suggestions from the kids and teachers in the next phase of our work. Meanwhile, the technical design of the school is almost ready, and we are preparing to obtain a building permit.

The biggest appreciation goes to Bucha Lyceum No. 9 for helping us to organise such a valuable brainstorming session. A special shout-out goes to the 10th-grade students and teachers who shared their thoughts during our discussions!