In cooperation with the Bonn-based aid organization "Help - Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe", the city of Bonn is implementing the donation project "Bonn hilft Cherson". The current focus of the aid measures is on securing medical care in Kherson. Various medical facilities have been equipped with important equipment such as an X-ray machine, an incubator, a video gastroscope, endoscopic equipment and an oxygen concentrator.

The four hospitals supported by Help not only meet the medical needs of the city of Kherson, but also those of the region. Over 218,000 people now have access to better healthcare. So far, 2,889 patients have been treated using the new equipment.

Donations are still urgently needed to restore healthcare services.

In February 2024, a delegation from Kherson visited the City of Bonn for the first time. The focus was on exchanges on a wide range of specialist topics such as infrastructure, waste management, civil protection and the economy. In the Old Town Hall, the Vice Mayor of Kherson, Vitalii Bielobrov, and Mayor Katja Dörner also signed a declaration of intent for further intensive cooperation as part of the solidarity partnership.

In a solidarity operator partnership, financed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), initiated and implemented by GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit) in cooperation with the Service Agency Communities in One World (SKEW), the Association of Municipal Enterprises (VKU) and the Global Water Partnership (GWP), Bonn-Netz is specifically helping the Ukrainian partner city of Kherson. The subsidiary of Stadtwerke Bonn is providing the local water supplier with extensive materials to rebuild the infrastructure of the destroyed water network. The relief supplies were transported from Bonn to the Black Sea coast.

In January 2023, the Ukrainian city of Kherson approached the city of Bonn with a request for support and the desire to establish town twinning relations. At its meeting on February 9, 2023, the Bonn City Council unanimously decided to establish a solidarity partnership with Kherson.

The solidarity partnership format was launched in 2022 by the Service Agency Communities in One World in response to the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine. The aim is to provide humanitarian support to people in Ukraine and help rebuild local administrative structures.

More than 100,000 euros have already been donated as part of "Bonn helps Kherson". Katrin Trushevskyy, Program Coordinator Ukraine at the aid organization Help, and Stefan Wagner, Head of the Office for International Affairs and Global Sustainability at the City of Bonn, talk to city spokesperson Barbara Löcherbach about how the solidarity partnership between Bonn and the Ukrainian city came about and how you can help too.

The Solidarity Partnership is supported in many ways by Bonn's urban society. In addition to countless committed individuals, these include, for example: