“Are you out of your mind building something during a war?” — Olha Rudnieva heard this phrase more than once when she and her partners set out to open a prosthetics center in Lviv.
But those warnings didn’t stop her, because she saw the enormous need for rehabilitation and support among those affected by Russian aggression. She succeeded in gathering a team of like-minded people and launching the innovative trauma care center — Superhumans.
“We never aimed to just build a prosthetics center — we wanted to build a center of resilience,” says Olha. She tirelessly repeats that the core mission of the center is to restore opportunities to people.
In nearly two years of operation, Superhumans has already helped over 1,000 patients — and not only military personnel but civilians as well. Today, her center helps to ease the burden on Ukraine’s overcrowded military hospitals and clinics.
According to the Ministry of Health, nearly 50,000 Ukrainians have lost limbs in almost three years of war.
Produced by: Zhanna Bezpyatchuk and Anastasiia Hribanova
Cinematography: Andriy Chad
