Eden Aid founders on their first trip. March 2022.
People Helping People
The hardest journeys to the new beginnings
People before everything
We started as a small group of friends from the Eden Valley near Penrith, moved by the plight experienced in Ukraine, by helping Ukrainians flee the war and delivering aid. Now we support the veterans who fought it – helping them find new beginnings after return
Same instinct. Different need.
Hopeful Future
Thousands of Ukrainian combat veterans are coming home from the front – wounded, lost, carrying what cannot be explained to those who weren’t there. Just as we once helped refugees on their journeys to new beginnings, we now help veterans on their hardest journey: from hopelessness to a hopeful future.
We do it through peer-led recovery groups, created by veterans for veterans, helping those who won’t ask for help.
A Hopeful Future group in Dnipro. February 2026.
Hopeful Future runs peer-led groups in Ukraine and trains veterans as groups facilitators
Help a veteran find a new beginning
“When I came back I didn’t talk to anyone for three months. Like my body was here, but my soul was not. I saw the faces of my dead mates everywhere. Here, for the first time, I opened up. I realised that I’m not alone, I have something to live for. Somehow in three days you managed to unite us. That means everything is possible”.
Yaroslav, a Ukrainian veteran
How we work
Eden Aid grew from a simple impulse – people seeing other people in trouble and deciding to act. There is no distance between us and the people we serve.
We began as volunteers loading aid and driving refugees through the night. That spirit has never left us. We are present, practical, and hands-on, and we do something real.
We measure success by what people can do without us. Training local teams, developing programmes designed to be owned and run by the communities they serve.
Every person we work with carries a full life – their story, their pain, their potential. We take the time to see that. We work with the whole person, and we measure our success by what they go on to build.