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💙💛 Nurses Stand With Ukraine
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukrainian nurses have kept caring for patients through attacks on hospitals, shortages, and grief. Nurses around the world have answered with solidarity, supplies, and training. Kitchen Monk™ and Flourishing Nursing stand with them.
Slava Ukraini. Glory to Ukraine.
🇺🇦 Ласкаво просимо! Слава Україні!
Kitchen Monk™ і Flourishing Nursing стоять разом з Україною: з її медсестрами, лікарями, захисниками та всіма людьми. Ми молимося за справедливий мир і перемогу України.
🪔 Ми не спочинемо, доки не настане мир, щоб українці знову могли процвітати, як того хотіла б Флоренс Найтінгейл.
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🇺🇦 Through victory, healing, and generations beyond
We stand with Ukraine—in defense of its freedom, sovereignty, and people. Our commitment continues through victory, healing, and rebuilding, and for generations beyond.
“I have been praying for Ukraine’s victory since this war began. This is deeply personal to me.” — Flourishing Nurse Ninja Nathanael Elijah Smith, FNP-C, DipACLM
Our prayer is for Ukraine’s victory, the protection of its people, the return of those displaced, and a lasting peace in which Ukrainians determine their own future. We honor those who have died and those who continue to care, defend, teach, grow food, and rebuild.
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🩺 Care for those who care
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🪔 A lamp of compassion
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🤝 A lasting promise
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🇺🇦 The Tryzub: Freedom, Dignity, and Our Promise

Ukraine’s state emblem, shown in solidarity. Rendering: Andrew Pertsev, via Wikimedia Commons.
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We honor Ukraine’s freedom by helping protect life, sustain care, and rebuild hope.
For our founder, Flourishing Nurse Ninja Nathanael Elijah Smith, admiration for the Tryzub accompanies a deeply personal commitment: prayer for Ukraine’s victory, solidarity with its people, and support that continues through healing and rebuilding. We give this emblem a place of honor as an expression of that commitment.
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💙 Ukrainian voices: care, independence, and rebuilding
Meet Ukrainian professionals through the World Health Organization’s Stories of care: Ukraine. Rehabilitation specialist Kateryna Zahorodnia describes teamwork that supports everyday independence. Family doctor Kateryna Poshtaruk discusses mental health in primary care and support for health workers. These are their published experiences, shared through links to the original reporting.
Read the World Health Organization’s “Because life goes on” feature (8 April 2026), about rehabilitation, wheelchair skills, and Ukrainian specialists helping people rebuild daily life.
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🪔 From Crimea to the Kitchen Monk
The lamp began in a war. Nurses are still carrying it.
Modern nursing took shape partly in wartime. During the Crimean War, 🥷 Florence Nightingale made night rounds with her lamp at the British army hospital at Scutari, in today’s Istanbul, and became known as “the Lady with the Lamp.” The war took its name from Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula on the Black Sea, where she also visited army hospitals at Balaklava in 1855.
More than 170 years later, nurses in Ukraine are carrying that same lamp through another war: caring for patients through air-raid sirens, power outages, and attacks on the hospitals where they work.
The Book of the Lamp, from The EVERgreen Chronicles™, begins with that lamp: From Crimea to the Kitchen Monk. It is a story about carrying light for one another, and about a question every caregiver knows: who cares for the one who cares? Today, part of the answer is all of us, standing with Ukraine’s nurses.
Our invitation: if the story moves you, consider giving to a trusted group supporting Ukraine’s nurses. Buying or reading the book does not make a donation. The founder’s books may generate author royalties. We receive no affiliate commissions or referral payments from the independent support resources linked here; donations are made through the organization you choose. The EVERgreen Chronicles are stories, not health guidance.
◐ COMING SOON
After the lamp, the garden 🌱
The Book of the Garden: The Cup of Flourishing
The EVERgreen Chronicles™ · A Kitchen Monk™ Garden of Eden Initiative
By Chef Robin Jeep & Nathanael Elijah Smith, FNP-C, DipACLM
The lamp helps us get through the night. The garden is what comes after: nourishment, healing, and rebuilding. The Cup of Flourishing brings Food as Medicine for All into everyday kitchens, and asks a question every caregiver knows: who cares for the one who cares?
We are writing it with a hope for Ukraine in our hearts: that its nurses, families, and communities will one day tend gardens again in peace, and heal, rebuild, and flourish.
In development and not yet available. Educational, not individualized medical advice, and not reviewed or endorsed by any professional organization.
Nursing organizations standing with Ukraine
| Organization | What they have done |
|---|---|
| International Council of Nurses | Launched #NursesforPeace in 2022. Its Humanitarian Fund has provided equipment, medical supplies, shelter, clothing, food, training, and mental health care for nurses in Ukraine. Read the International Council of Nurses’ Ukraine nursing update ↗ |
| Nursing Association of Ukraine | Ukraine’s national nursing association, led by President Tetyana Chernyshenko. Their message ↗ |
| European Federation of Nurses Associations and European Forum of National Nursing and Midwifery Associations | Joined the International Council of Nurses in a joint statement condemning attacks on health facilities and calling for peace. |
| Nursing associations of Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Moldova, and Hungary | Helped refugees at their borders and got supplies into Ukraine. |
| Tri-Council for Nursing (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, American Nurses Association, American Organization for Nursing Leadership, National Council of State Boards of Nursing, and National League for Nursing) | Issued an urgent joint appeal for Ukraine’s health care workers. Read the appeal ↗ |
Ways you can help
- Give to nurses directly through the International Council of Nurses’ Humanitarian Fund and #NursesforPeace ↗.
- Support trusted humanitarian groups such as the International Committee of the Red Cross ↗ and the International Rescue Committee.
- Welcome Ukrainian families near you. Refugee resettlement agencies, churches, and community groups often need volunteers, rides, and meals. A shared meal is Kitchen Monk at its best.
- Stand with nurses online. Share #NursesforPeace and thank Ukrainian nurses publicly.
- Use your voice as a citizen. Tell your elected representatives that protecting hospitals and health workers matters to you.
- Pray, if that is part of your life, for Ukraine’s people, nurses, and peace.
- Give wisely. Check that a charity is reputable before donating, and be cautious of unsolicited fundraising messages.

🛡️ Ukraine’s blue and yellow in our nursing crest
The gold Ukrainian Tryzub and blue-and-yellow shield express solidarity with Ukraine. Our gold-and-emerald Flourishing Lamp crowns the crest as a symbol of care, nourishment, and renewal.
🙏 An optional prayer for Ukraine
God of mercy, protect the people of Ukraine. Strengthen those who defend their freedom and those who care for the wounded. Comfort grieving families, bring the displaced safely home, and guide the work of healing and rebuilding. We pray for Ukraine’s victory and a lasting, just peace in which its people can flourish. Amen.
A prayer from our community, offered freely. People of every faith and none are welcome to stand with Ukraine in their own way.
This page reflects the views of Kitchen Monk™ and Flourishing Nursing only. The organizations listed are independent and have not endorsed this site. It does not speak for the nurses honored elsewhere on our sites. We earn nothing from any link here.



