About a year ago, the Superhumans health facility opened in Lviv, focusing on one key consequence of the war in Ukraine — people with missing limbs. An overwhelmed medical system was ill-equipped to handle the influx of patients desperately needing prostheses and other related care, so a group of Ukrainian businessmen opened a hospital.
With an online queue of more than 500 people applying for services shortly after it opened, the facility sought to expand and offer other services, including reconstructive surgery for facial injuries and burns as the result of bombings and flying shrapnel.
To do so, Superhumans, which provides aid for free, needed to raise funds from global philanthropists looking to support the country amidst its war with Russia and turned to the United States government for help to bring in investments.
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Adva Saldinger is a Senior Reporter at Devex where she covers development finance, as well as U.S. foreign aid policy. Adva explores the role the private sector and private capital play in development and authors the weekly Devex Invested newsletter bringing the latest news on the role of business and finance in addressing global challenges. A journalist with more than 10 years of experience, she has worked at several newspapers in the U.S. and lived in both Ghana and South Africa.
