“Hope Under Fire”, MOAS new internal fundraising campaign promo about Ukraine, to screen in Valletta on May 5, 2025.
La Valletta, 1 May, 2025. Malta-based humanitarian NGO MOAS (Migrant Offshore Aid Station) will premiere its latest fundraising campaign piece, Hope Under Fire, on 5 May 2025 at the Aula Prima, University of Malta – Valletta Campus.
This feature offers a rare and unfiltered insight into the lives of the medical staff operating on the frontlines of the war in Ukraine. Told through the eyes of a doctor, a driver, and a medic working with MOAS on the frontlines of war-torn Ukraine, the multimedia fundraising project captures the human cost of conflict, and the courage required to save lives under fire.
Following the screening, a panel discussion with journalist Neil Camilleri, Giuseppe Attard, and MOAS representatives will allow guests to engage directly with the team behind this powerful production and ask questions about the humanitarian reality in the field. Food and refreshments will be served at the end of the event.
The Project
Produced by Maltese journalists Neil Camilleri and Giuseppe Attard, “Hope Under Fire” serves as both a tribute and a call to action, raising vital awareness and funds to support MOAS’s ongoing mission. The narrative follows a three-person MOAS crew as they hurry to evacuate critically injured Ukrainian soldiers from the Zaporizhzhia frontline in eastern Ukraine.
The team embedded with one of the MOAS teams present in Ukraine—comprising anaesthesiologist Inna Demiter, paramedic Nataliia Kapytsia, and ambulance driver Ihor Mischuk— and experienced both the crew’s everyday life at a base located about 13km from the frontline and the evacuation of soldiers.
During their stay, the team witnessed the dangers that MOAS medics face daily, including retrieving wounded soldiers from field hospitals that are regularly targeted and taking shelter in a basement during air alarms. On one occasion, the team also visited a state-of-the-art underground hospital – Ukraine’s first such facility.
Most of the patients evacuated by the team had been injured by FPV drones – currently the number one killer on Ukraine’s frontlines.
“This project captures not just the courage of our teams, but the critical, life-saving work that happens daily on Ukraine’s frontlines. These missions are dangerous, costly, and urgent — and we cannot continue without public support. Hope Under Fire is our call for solidarity. Every donation fuels an ambulance, a medic, a life saved.” — Christopher Catrambone, Founder of MOAS, stated.
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For more information:
Francesca Pierpaoli
PR & Communications Manager
Tel. +356 79900097
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About MOAS
MOAS is an international humanitarian organisation dedicated to providing humanitarian assistance and responding quickly and efficiently to emerging crises. Since its inception, MOAS has reached hundreds of thousands of people through its activities. After several Search and Rescue missions in the Mediterranean, Aegean and Andaman seas, MOAS expanded its operations to Southeast Asia to assist refugees and the local communities. Today, MOAS is involved in several missions in Ukraine, Sudan, Yemen and Somalia, providing aid deliveries and essential medical care. MOAS also operates in Malta and has various projects to assist migrant communities. MOAS has the ECOSOC consultative status and is a member of the Malta Refugee Council. MOAS is registered in Malta, UK, USA, and Ukraine.
Info: www.moas.eu
About the Production
This is Camilleri and Attard’s 8th documentary on the war in Ukraine. They have been on six working trips to Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion in February 2022 and have reported from Bucha, Irpin, Kherson, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv and other cities across Ukraine.