Tamara Poltoratska is Communication Manager at the non-profit vegetarian food relief organization Food For Life Ukraine, which serves healthy food to those in need. In 2022, Food for Life Ukraine expanded its charitable activities to help those affected by the war. Tamara is originally from the Donbass region, which has been occupied by Russia for nine years. In 2014, she moved to Kyiv and never returned home. Tamara has a background in law, but throughout her career she has been fascinated with social volunteering on an international scale and fundraising for nonprofits. Her first project was dedicated to fostering rural development in abandoned regions of India, later she volunteered for a German-Ukrainian-Polish post-WWII reconciliation project in Poland and raised funds for a number of human rights and civic education projects in Belgium, Poland and Ukraine. In 2015-2018, Tamara worked as a Grants & Contracts Assistant at Pact Inc. (Kyiv), working on the implementation of USAID projects aimed at increasing citizen awareness of and engagement in civic actions at the national, regional and local level in Ukraine. After the outbreak of the war, Tamara joined Food For Life Ukraine to help its development through her professional expertise.
