Former political prisoner Vladimir Logovoi from Minsk was sentenced to three years of confinement in an open correctional facility. He fled to avoid being imprisoned and is now asking for help with urgent dental treatment and obtaining a new driver’s license.
Katsiaryna is an artist and painting teacher from Hrodna. She’s 24 and has endured political persecution, sexual threats, and two major surgeries. She is currently recovering from surgery and cannot work. She needs help.
A woman from Minsk joined the protests in 2020 in Belarus. She was beaten by OMON, managed to emigrate, and is now in need of support from compassionate Belarusians.
A Belarusian family refused to let their son be taught loyalty to the regime. Now in exile, they are asking for support to start over from scratch.
Belarusian tattoo artist Ilya has just undergone a heart transplant. Now, without stable housing, valid documents, or funds for vital medications, he is at risk of losing everything the operation gave him. Your support will provide him with safe shelter and the treatment he needs to recover and return to life and art.
At age 19, David Mostitski was sentenced to a long prison term in the so-called “Pinsk case.” After his release, he continued to face pressure from the regime as a former political prisoner and was forced to flee Belarus. While awaiting a decision on international protection in Poland, he is asking for support to help him get back on his feet.
In 2020, Siarhei took part in the strike of New Drama Theatre employees. In 2022, he stayed in Lithuania after an ill-fated backstage video from the set of the series Akrestsina. Now, he is forced to fight arthritis in exile.
After receiving a 4-year sentence for comments on social media, Natallia and her family were evacuated to Poland by the BYSOL team. Now living in a shelter with her three underage children, she is asking for help to start a new life in a foreign country.
A Belarusian tried to avoid arrest but ended up in prison. He recently immigrated to Poland and wants to start over – right now he needs support.
“I thought the law enforcers had forgotten about me. I was living a normal life, but overnight I had to flee Belarus. Now I’m in a refugee camp in Poland and need financial support to survive.”
Viktoria took part in the 2020 protests and later fled due to searches and the threat of a criminal case. She has already been denied asylum twice in Lithuania. Now she is asking for help not to end up on the street and to recover her health.
“I urgently need medical examinations and treatment: a gynecologist due to suspected cancer, psychological support, a dentist and an ophthalmologist, as well as medication”.
“This is it. I no longer have a brother. Sasha has passed on to a better world at the age of 46,” wrote former political prisoner Olga Klaskouskaya on her Facebook page.
Sergey spent 3 years and 3 months in prison for participating in the 2020 protests and commenting on the Internet. He is now in Warsaw. Help him start a new life.
For his activity during the protests and for administering the chat “Typical Serebryanka” Gleb served 2 years in prison. He is starting to put his life back together, having left for Poland, and needs support for the first time
Olga Studneva is a political refugee from Belarus. In 2020, she coordinated volunteer assistance to victims of repression. Due to the threat of arrest, she had to leave the country. Now she lives in difficult conditions in Lithuania and asks for support: for rent, treatment, and survival.
In 2020, Zhanna worked in the municipal communal services. She’s refused to cut white-red-white ribbons — as a result, she was unemployed, and then in exile. After the birth of her daughter, she faced financial troubles.
Ilya is one of those teenagers who went out into the streets in 2020. For taking part in protests — a prison. For freedom — emigration. Now he is in a foreign country and hopes that kindness will overcome the past.
The Belarusian, who went through Bakhmut, Kharkov and was injured seriously, is fighting for the opportunity to return to duty now. He needs to undergo rehabilitation and pay off his debts.
The Belarusian family escaped persecution in their homeland, but found themselves in a difficult financial situation in exile. Without support, they risk losing their home and the minimal stability they had managed to build with great effort.
A protest participator and a volunteer fighter, he was seriously injured. Now «Tiger» can't work and needs help to recover, go through rehabilitation and just to survive.
My dad faces up to 15 years in prison for reporting to «Belaruski Gayun» when he saw military equipment. I am collecting money for a lawyer.
Belarusian writer learns she has cancer at a late stage. She is being treated – but needs support to survive.
We have been serving in Ukraine since 2022. We are currently working with UAVs. To save and protect, we need reliable transport. Help us be faster than war.
Denis* is trying to make ends meet after being released in Belarus and cherishes the dream of going abroad to work and live in safety
The civil activist went through six months in prison and was deprived of her home. Now, after being evacuated to Lithuania, she dreams of mastering permanent makeup to regain stability and confidence in the future.
The Belarusian woman survived the beating, disability and addiction that followed. Now she is fighting for a full life and needs support to survive.
Dmitry Stagursky spent 15 days behind bars, and during that time, investigators interrogated him twice and threatened to jail him for three years. Upon his release, he decided not to wait for a second arrest.
A former political prisoner from Minsk, who served six months for a political article, found himself in exile without work or means of subsistence. Now he is starting to rebuild his life and asks for help at a critical moment.
Galina raises her children alone. The family is trying to get their lives back on track, but everything has been complicated by the woman's surgery. Now she can't work and is asking for help to hold on while she recovers.
Ksenia Angelova has been battling cancer for many years. Last year, doctors became concerned that remission had ended – chemotherapy and surgeries began. In order to receive timely treatment and not lose her home, she asks for help.
The Belarusian Solidarity Centre provides legal, educational and cultural support to Belarusians in Poland. Today its work is threatened. The Centre urgently needs financial support.
The Volnyja Initiative helps released political prisoners with re-socialisation. In order to continue their work, they need your help.
The Kosht Urada project team is asking for help to continue work on its related project “Open Procurement”, which identifies violations in public procurement in Belarus.
BY_Help is a major initiative that systematically financially helps people inside Belarus. Our team in the country needs support.
Belarusian independent media Reform.by is on the verge of closure. But thanks to you we will be able to keep the team of our journalists-newsmen and not to stop the work.