Ukraine Delivery Drones for Humanitarian Supplies

Humanitarian groups in Ukraine have supplies, but they need a reliable way to deliver supplies to civilians and soldiers in need without endangering more lives or risking the supplies falling into enemy hands.

 

I've built a drone that can lift and deliver 10 pounds of humanitarian supplies at a time, and I'm sending it to Ukraine in 2 weeks. My team has plans to build and deliver 5 more drones in person in August, but we need help. We have the contacts in Ukraine and the expertise to make this happen, but we don't have sufficient funding.

 

This drone cost me $3,000 to build. The next 5 drones will cost about $15,000 total. The cost for the team to travel to Ukraine to train the pilots and to make sure these get to the right people will be around $3,000. (For reference, "DraganFly" is another large company that's providing humanitarian delivery drones to Ukraine and they charge $30,000 for a drone that's comparable to mine)

 

Right now I'm building these in the living room of my apartment. If we can raise more than enough to cover the next 5 drones, I will rent a small warehouse where my team can work to build more. We will commit to sending 1 drone to Ukraine for every $3,000 raised for the first 20 drones. After that, we will adjust the spending as needed to improve the drones for longer flight time, more accurate delivery, stronger signal, etc.

With enough funding, we can build 3-5 drones a week. We would love to be able to deliver hundreds of these. As long as there's money coming in and the war is still going, we'll keep building drones. The goal is currently set to $18k, which is the rough cost to build 5 drones and get them to Ukraine. 

 

The smallest components on the drone cost just a few cents, so literally every penny counts. But we understand that these are uncertain times, so if you feel like you can't donate even just a few dollars, please help by sharing this on social media to help this campaign get more exposure.

 

If you want to help in other ways, or if you have questions, please contact us.

 

Or, if you have spare drone parts to donate, we'll find a way to use them! Please contact us for our mailing address.

 

I will upload a video in a few days. After that, we will be posting frequent updates.

 

Thank you!

 

Additional information as requested by GoFundMe:

My name is Harrison Becker. I will be responsible for using the funds raised to buy parts to build drones. The finished drones will be sent to Samuel Lyles and Solomon Smith of Backroads Foundation in Kyiv, Ukraine who will use them to distribute humanitarian aid packages.

I'm calling these Guardian Angel Drones

We have a website under construction: www.aerial-delivery.com