Citi Ukraine financed the Peli can live Foundation's project to purchase housing for IDPs
Citi Ukraine in partnership with the Peli can live Charitable Organization is implementing the "Home Again" project for the third time. The project aims to provide housing for at least five internally displaced families. This year, benefactors will buy ready-made housing for the needs of each family participating in the project. The initiative was made possible thanks to a grant from Citi Ukraine in the amount of $300 thousand.
In 2026, Citi Ukraine, together with Peli can live, continue to take care of families who have lost their homes as a result of the military aggression of the Russian Federation. Philanthropists strive to create sustainable conditions for the life and development of affected families. That is why a new format of assistance was adopted - the purchase of houses with personal plots on the secondary real estate market in rural areas. Such a decision will help provide IDP families with housing faster, as well as support communities by returning life to empty houses.
"This is not the first time Citi Ukraine has supported housing initiatives for Ukrainians affected by the war. Our long standing partnership with the Peli can live Foundation is build on shared values: providing vital humanitarian support to Ukraine. Since safe housing is a fundamental human right, we consider it our duty to support “Home Again” project. We truly believe that these families will build bright and lives in their new homes,” said Alexander McWhorter, Citi Country Officer for Ukraine.
"Our Foundation has always aimed not only to help here and now, but also to create long-term solutions for families affected by the war. This year's project will have a wider geography than previous projects, because we enable families participating in the project to independently choose a convenient place of residence and housing," said Yana Bobrova, Chairman of the Board of Peli can live.
In February 2026, the first family received the keys to their new home in the Kirovohrad region. Before the war, the family lived a happy and hardworking life in the Luhansk region. During the occupation in March 2022, they lost their home and their life's work - they went through basements and forced evacuation. Now they are trying to start over and build a new life in a new home.
The "Home Again" initiative dates back to 2023, when ten families from the Chernihiv region received comfortable modular houses in their yards destroyed by enemy shelling. This was the first step towards restoring the lives of families affected by Russian aggression. The project scaled up in 2025: eleven families who were forced to leave their homes in the occupied territories received modern modular houses in the Boryspil district of the Kyiv region. The houses were equipped with the necessary furniture and household appliances
About Citi Ukraine
Citi Ukraine is part of Citigroup, one of the four largest banks in the United States by assets. We have been in Ukraine for more than 25 years. Our offering covers all aspects of cash and liquidity management, trading services and finance, treasury services, corporate finance and lending, securities services and issuer services. We are honored to help unlock the country's economic potential by serving nearly 500 clients, including the public sector, multinational corporations, leading Ukrainian companies and foreign investors wishing to invest in the Ukrainian market.
About Peli can live
The Peli can live charitable foundation was established in 2017 to implement environmental projects. The Foundation restores forest belts, helps preserve forests, builds islands for nesting pelicans and insect houses, and fights for the preservation and development of natural ecosystems. A separate area of the foundation's activities is the implementation of socially significant social projects, which has intensified since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.