Give an hour,
change a path

USUFU is written and checked by people doing it around their own studies and jobs. That is the whole model, and it is why volunteering here is not decorative: a guide nobody translates stays unread by the parents who need it most, and a figure nobody re-checks quietly goes stale on a page a family is trusting.

There is no minimum, no rota and no interview. You tell us what you can do and roughly how often; we send you something that fits, or we tell you honestly that we have nothing useful this month.

What there is to do

Translation is the largest need: every guide, tool and FAQ answer exists in English and Ukrainian, and new writing arrives in English first. After that comes review — reading an essay draft a student sent us and saying plainly what is unclear, which needs a careful reader far more than it needs a specialist. Then fact-checking: opening the official source behind a cost, a deadline or a policy and confirming it still says what our page says. And last, the least technical and often the most valuable, simply telling families in your city or your school that this exists.

Representatives, wherever you are in the States

The one thing we cannot do from a single state is be present. USUFU was started by a handful of Ukrainian students in one corner of the country, and almost everything we know about how a school actually treats an arriving Ukrainian family, we know about the schools we happen to live near. That is a very small map for a country with more than thirteen thousand school districts in it — and closing it is the help we would most like to be offered.

A representative is not a title and carries no authority to speak for USUFU. It means one person who knows their own place: the counsellors at the local high school, the Saturday Ukrainian school or the parish the families already gather around, the community college nobody realised would take a transcript from Kyiv. In practice the work is putting our guides in front of a counselling office or an ESL coordinator, telling the Ukrainian community in your city that a free bilingual resource exists, answering the first question a family asks so they are not left with it, and sending back what you learn — because how one district enrols a student who arrived in March is exactly the kind of thing no national page can tell anybody.

We would like this everywhere, and most of all where Ukrainian families have actually settled and we have nobody at all: Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, California, Washington, Oregon, Texas, Florida, Ohio, Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia — and any district you understand better than we do. Ukrainian helps and is not required. A parent or a teacher who knows how their own schools work is worth as much here as a student who knows ours, and one committed person in a new state does more for our reach than anything we could write from this one.

What to send us

One message is enough: which of these you would like to take on — including standing as a representative where you live — whether you write Ukrainian, English or both, and roughly how much time a month is realistic. No CV, and no need to be a current student — parents, teachers and alumni are as useful here as anyone. Two things we will always be straight about: we cannot pay, and we will not put your name on anything you have not seen.