Free trips for medics: Uber, the Ministry of Health, Kyiv NGO partnered up for a joint project

Kyiv, August 23, 2022. Uber has launched a joint initiative with the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and Kyiv charitable organisation Soloma Cats to help provide nearly 100 medical institutions across Ukraine with free rides to ensure stable and safe transportation of medical workers.

The medical community, which always bears the brunt of critical times, such as epidemics and wars, often has to struggle with the difficulties of getting to work and back home, since a significant number of hospital staff live on the outskirts of larger cities and do not always have access to transportation.

To alleviate the burden of the heroic Ukrainian medical workers, Uber has provided special promocodes for free trips. The promocodes will be distributed to 100 medical institutions throughout Ukraine, including in such cities as Kyiv, Lviv, Vinnytsia, Dnipro, Ternopil and other six cities across the country, where the Uber service is available.

"Since the very beginning of this terrible war, Uber has stood with Ukraine and supported the Ukrainian community by initiating many social projects in partnership with NGOs, volunteer centres and companies. Today, we are very happy to support the medical people who need this assistance so much during this time. Uber supports and will continue to support Ukraine for as long as necessary," - says Marcin Moczyróg, CEE General Manager at Uber.

As part of the initiative, launched in August, after consulting with the Ministry of Health, Uber has pledged to provide nearly 35,000 promocodes for free rides to hospitals every month, financing up to UAH 8 million in trips monthly. The initiative will run until the end of November 2022.

"The Ministry of Health has a long and successful track record of