Iuliia Markhel is a Ukrainian environmental activist, youth leader, blogger, and social activist with 20 years of experience. She is best known as the leader of the NGO Let’s Do It Ukraine, the largest environmental movement in Ukraine that unites more than 3.5 million Ukrainians. She is also a founding member of the international movements Let’s Do It World and School Recycling World.
Iuliia was one of the first ecoactivists to talk about ecocide in Ukraine as a result of the war, and the ecological consequences of the explosion of the Kakhovskaya HPP on June 6, 2023.
In the first days of the full-scale war in Ukraine, she created the international humanitarian project Let’s Do it Ukraine SOS. Iuliia managed to unite about 10,000 volunteers to carry out humanitarian missions and help Ukrainians with basic necessities, such as food, clothes, and personal hygiene products.