Art project ‘Icons on Ammo Boxes’

You can support the project with a donation to the Guilford Chantry Rotary Club (registration number 1095536) by clicking on the icon.

Icons on Ammo Boxes art project. The project in which the Foundation initiates and organises exhibitions and sales of icons in the UK painted on fragments of ammo boxes by Ukrainian artists Sofia Atlantova and Oleksandr Klymenko together with the Rotary Club Kyiv-Capital in cooperation with other British charities and host organisations.

The project is about transforming the death that ammo boxes carry into the life that icons symbolise. The funds raised from the sale of the icons and charitable donations are used to purchase vehicles and medical supplies for medical units that save lives on the frontline.

In 2022-2023, in partnership with the British charities Hope4Creation and British Ukrainian Aid, exhibitions were held at St Mary’s Church, Oxford University, St John’s Notting Hill Church in London and the Ukrainian Cathedral of the Holy Family in Exile in London.

Since the beginning of 2024, the Rotary Club of Guildford Chantries has been the main British partner of the project, taking care of its finances.

In 2024, exhibitions were held at

Guildford Cathedral
St Nicolas Parish Church, Guildford
St Teresa’s RC Church (Chiddingfold, Surrey)
St Mary’s CofE Church (Chiddingfold, Surrey)
University of Edinburgh
At the charity dinner dedicated to the 10th anniversary of British Ukrainian Aid
Newcastle Cathedral
At the Rotary Action Summit of the United Kingdom of Ireland in Newcastle from 8 to 10 November 2024

2025 year:

Ukrainian Cathedral of the Holy Family in Exile in London, 13 December 2024 – 4 February 2025.
At Southwark Cathedral, London, 7-27 February 2025.

The exhibition was on view at Guildford Cathedral from 5 March to 22 April 2025.

Great St.Mary’s, the University Church Cambridge opens its door on 3rd of October, 2025 and after the exhibition is moving to Selwyn College’s Chapel.

The funds that to be accumulated in the exhibitions in Cambridge will go to finance the housing issues for the Mariupol University professors’ families. 

If you are interested in collaborating on this project in the UK, please contact us!

Project results
Throughout the project, more than £83,780 were raised in the UK thanks to British donors, which made it possible to purchase

  • A refrigerated vehicle to transport fallen soldiers from the battlefield,
  • An ambulance vehicle

To evacuate the wounded from the battlefield and to transport wounded soldiers and civilians to a stabilisation medical centre:

  • Armored vehicle
  • Mitsubishi vehicle

We also purchased the Fuji Portable X-ray Unit FDR Xair (XD2000) for the Medical Unit, saving lives in Pokrovsk direction (we are thankful for a significant discount we’ve got to FujiFilm and its Ukrainian distributor IrisMed).

We are infinitely grateful to our benefactors for your support in saving the life of our defenders.

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