In 2024, First Ukrainian International Bank continued to develop a culture of volunteering among its employees.

The bank has been operating PUMB Run Running Club since 2021. The purpose of the club is to create a culture of healthy lifestyle and support Ukrainian defenders. Each run of a club member over 3 km means improved health and FUIB’s contribution to the Fund for Assistance of Mobilised Employees. The Fund raises money for the needs of colleagues who are defending our independence. The training sessions are counted using the Strava application. More runs – more help provided.

For 12 months of 2024, 153 members of the PUMB RUN community ran up and collected UAH 325 thousand for the needs of their mobilized colleagues. Throughout the year, webinars were held for runners, as well as competitions. FUIB’s own online race includes distances, winners, and commemorative medals. Each distance is also a transfer of funds to the Fund for Support of Mobilized Colleagues. FUIB also participates in the Kyiv half marathon of invincibility, the funds from the collection of which go to support Hospitallers.

In 2022, the bank established Fund for assistance to the mobilized colleagues. In 2024, UAH 2.9 million was transferred to 107 mobilized employees and relatives of employees for the purchase of protective equipment, gear and equipment, tactical clothing and shoes, tactical first-aid kits. The bank doubles the amount collected by employees to strengthen support for defenders.

Since the beginning of the war in FUIB there is a mutual aid cash register. In 2024, 80 FUIB employees who found themselves in difficult life circumstances received more than UAH 3 million in assistance. Each voluntary contribution of employees was doubled by the bank – and this allowed to increase the amount of payments.

Our blood donation tradition is now 9 years old. 9 years of employee involvement in shaping the culture of blood donation in Ukraine. In recent years, the team has been trying to donate blood on a quarterly basis. In August 2024, on the occasion of the Independence Day of Ukraine, the FUIB initiative Lifesavingtruck was implemented in the framework of open blood donations "Independence is in our blood". In Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Lviv, Odesa and Kyiv, 465 donors joined. More than 209 liters of blood were collected, which could potentially save 1,395 lives. This blood helped the wounded military and civilians. With such unity and results, we may safely say: independence is in our blood.

On December 6, 2024, the day of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, FUIB Bank together with its partner, Adsapience marketing and communication agency, collected donated blood for wounded soldiers. The donation was supported by the DonorUA team. The blood was donated by 41 donors, employees of the bank and agency. This is 18.45 liters of blood. Thanks to the partner donation, it will be possible to save 123 lives of defenders.

Till St. Nicholas Day 2024 in the store "Gifts for health" from the Tabletochki Fund and FUIB it was possible to buy gifts that bring children with cancer closer to defeating cancer: a week of fighting a tumor, protecting your bones during chemotherapy, or a month of treating bone cancer. Employees, customers, partners, and friends of FUIB and Tabletochki raised a total of UAH 450,500. FUIB Bank doubled this contribution. UAH 901,000 will make it possible to purchase the necessary medicines and supplies for almost a hundred wards of the Tabletochki Fund for two months. 

The bank’s Management Board supports employee volunteer initiatives by financing organizational arrangements for their implementation: providing premises, transporting employees, purchasing auxiliary materials, etc.