Grain of Solace is a private international humanitarian initiative birthed by husband and wife, Olga Fitch and Alexander Predovsky.

HUMANITARIAN MEANS HUMANE

We provide people in dire need with face to face overall aid, people who found themselves being on a side of terror, agony and despair, confused about a future trajectory of their lives.

Our priorities are the people who have no friends or relatives outside the war zone, who feel unable to connect with any helping hands, who are completely lost.

Olga has PhD in International Law and Human Rights modules from the Metropolitan University of London and London Westminster University, handling grade-1 difficult cases during the Chechen war. She was working for the International Secretariat of Amnesty International in London from 2000, handling Prisoners of Conscience and Political Prisoners campaigns, as well as cases related to Humanitarian Crisis and War Crimes.

Alexander has an extensive experience in Production and Project Management and operational implementation with 25 years in three different world regions: USA, UK and Eastern Europe, including rehabilitation and addiction recovery centres in the USA, running international TV and Media production company, marketing and PR for the American expatriate communities worldwide.

It is impossible to imagine being suddenly cut off from your roots, your base, your circle of family and friends, your history, your projects and aspirations, and to be left with no place to go and no purpose to look forward to.

And that’s where our help comes as an absolute necessity: SOCIAL INTEGRATION. Psychological adaptation to a new world order. Transiting geographies. CHANGE.

WE ARE SEEKING YOUR HELP IN HELPING PEOPLE TO MOVE ON

They are unable to, unless we put our helping hands out to them and comfort with basic stability.

Please donate whatever you can, and kindly share with any humanitarian and charity funds you might know of, spreading around your friends too.

We currenty help Ukranian women and children, the elderly, disabled people to settle in safe settings and get back to normal lives; these are people who were forced to leave their husbands, sons and fathers behind, leave their destroyed homes and run away of their homeland to save their lives.

Our immediate need is to sustain what we’ve already accomplished so far, in a much longer run:

• hiring and purchasing transport to move temporarily displaced families across borders and into safe locations;
• bringing humanitarian aid into Ukraine, including food, water, medicals, warm clothes, other supplies;
• buying animal food, medicines and cages to transport trapped furry friends away from hazardous areas;
• providing newly arrived refugees with temporary shelter with safe and comfortable conditions whilst searching for a suitable longterm housing for them into the countries with proven record of support for the refugees;
• flying the refugees across European countries, helping with trains, flights, paperwork, and accommodation in new places;
• providing professional psychological support for children, women and elderly, directly and remote;
• coordinating volunteers on locations. Hiring professional help and assistance. Creating self-sustained hub of volunteers at the Ukrainian-Polish border Medyka and Przemysl, providing free accommodation and subsistence for the refugees and the volunteers.

We work with volunteers whom we know personally. We only send aid to the organisations, groups of people or individuals whom we know and can trust. We are not a part of any charity or humanitarian funds or firms.

We provide people in need with a holistic humanitarian care, and use traditional “People need People” approach.

PLEASE HELP US TO HELP OTHERS. AS, IN REALITY, THERE ARE NO “OTHERS”