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GLOBAL PURPOSE
ELYSIAN Aid bridges storytelling and humanitarian action
Led by Karen Floyd, ELYSIAN Aid has an identity unlike any other. Karen's background as a former prosecutor in South Carolina’s 7th Judicial Circuit focusing on cases of child abuse and sexual assault is just one example of how she has Demonstrated a career-long commitment to protecting vulnerable women and children.
Karen is a humanitarian filmmaker who portrays truth without sensationalism or censorship.
Karen has proven unique access to places and people that are unreachable by others.
Deep rooted from Karen's principles, ELYSIAN Aid transforms decades of Karen's advocacy of women and children into an institutional voice and stands shoulder to shoulder with leading global actors.
Through survivor-led documentation, justice-driven archives, and field engagement, we transform untold testimonies into global advocacy, education, and policy impact.
Our Mission: to protect truth, empower survivors, and restore dignity where silence has been normalized.
WHAT WE DO
STORIES THAT CHANGE THE WORLD
Speaking the untold truths of women's lives in war-torn countries
ELYSIAN Aid is on the front lines, amplifying the voices of women and children too often silenced by war. Karen's life experience—spanning continents, cultures, and languages—has shaped a storyteller with rare access and empathy, capturing truths that cut through noise and propaganda. ELYSIAN Aid continues this mission through its research and by institutionalizing Karen's methodology in its approach to documentaries.
In the midst of devastation, storytelling becomes more than documentation—it becomes a lifeline. By revealing raw narratives of resilience and suffering, Karen humanizes statistics, rallies international attention, and builds empathy that sparks action. Awareness leads to impact, and impact creates change.
Through Women Who Rise, Karen redefines documentary filmmaking as a force for justice and survival. Ukrainians urgently need food, clothing, medical aid, shelter, and the promise of a future beyond conflict. Storytelling is the first step—transforming trauma into testimony, silence into visibility, and lived experience into global calls for relief.
This is more than film. It is a movement to ensure Ukrainian voices shape the world’s understanding of war and its response.
OUR FRAMEWORK
Leadership Development
Founder, Publisher,
Filmmaker, and
Global Advocate
with award-winning
humanitarian
documentaries.
Storytelling for Advocacy
Immersive,
survivor-led
storytelling that
exposes the hidden
truths of Ukraine’s
war—realities too
often overlooked or
untold.
Empowerment & Global Reach
Unmatched access
to leaders, survivors,
and places others
cannot reach—along
with established
relationships with
Ukrainian nationals
who remain in the
country.
Justice & Testimony
Former Prosecutor, Lawyer,
politics, global
business, and
humanitarian work
— delivering
bipartisan credibility
and cultural fluency.
Healing Community-Led Change
Speaks the
unfiltered truth of
Ukraine’s war,
inspiring action and
uniting global
communities in
solidarity.
THE ISSUES WE SOLVE
In Ukraine’s war, women’s voices are among the first casualties—silenced by violence, overshadowed by politics, or distorted by propaganda.
Testimonies of survival and resilience rarely reach policy-makers or translate into justice.
Humanitarian reporting often reduces their experience to aid statistics rather than lasting empowerment.
Without secure, survivor-controlled platforms, Ukrainian women risk speaking their truth at great personal cost—
or not being heard at all.
OUR CREATIVE DESTINATION
Women Who Rise
is building a living archive of Ukrainian
women’s untold stories from the front
lines of war.
These testimonies
transform personal accounts of loss,
survival, and resilience into collective
power.
Every story
becomes both a cultural record and a
call to action—driving support for urgent needs like food, clothing, shelter, and medical aid, while also shaping longterm policy and justice.
Together, these voices
form a global network of women’s
narratives that cannot be silenced,
erased, or ignored—and that turn
awareness into impact, and impact
into change.
OUR UNIQUE METHOD
Storytelling for Advocacy
Documentary films, immersive VR, and multilingual releases that bring the realities of Ukraine’s war— displacement, survival, and resilience—directly to global audiences.
Leadership Development
The ELYSIAN Fellowship & Daughters of Change mentorship, equipping Ukrainian women and girls to lead during and after conflict.
Justice & Testimony
Blockchain-secured archives to permanently preserve war crimes testimonies and survivor stories, ensuring they cannot be erased or distorted.
Healing & Community Change
Survivor-led Peace & Purpose Circles offering safe spaces for Ukrainian women to process trauma, rebuild identity, and foster solidarity.
Economic Empowerment
Story-driven microfunding to support grassroots initiatives that provide food, shelter, and livelihood opportunities for families rebuilding in wartime and beyond.
Future-Proofing
By preserving testimonies and amplifying voices, the project creates a global awareness and advocacy model designed to help prevent atrocities like the war in Ukraine from repeating, ensuring lessons learned become safeguards for future generations.
HOW WE APPROACH TECHNOLOGY
Protect survivors, journalists, and field workers
Prevent tampering or manipulation
Ensure anonymity where required
Ensure identification only by authorized parties
Guarantee safe storage of evidence
Meeting ethical AI standards
RAISING AWARENESS TO CREATE GREATER IMPACT
Who is Our Audience?
Policy-Makers & Global Leaders: To influence international law, humanitarian aid allocation, and accountability.
Philanthropists & Donors: To generate direct support for Ukrainian relief and long-term empowerment initiatives.
Cultural Influencers & Media: To keep Ukraine in the public eye beyond headlines, shaping cultural narratives.
Diaspora Communities: To ensure Ukrainian voices abroad remain connected and amplified.
General Public Worldwide: To foster empathy, solidarity, and grassroots advocacy through human connection.
Educators and Aid Providers: Create content for schools, universities, and leadership programs to instill lessons of resilience and justice.
How Do We Get It Out There?
Global Distribution: Release through international film festivals, humanitarian forums, and streaming platforms to reach both cultural and policy audiences.
Multimedia Engagement: Leverage VR/AR, social media campaigns, and behind-the-scenes content via ELYSIAN for immersive, shareable storytelling.
Strategic Partnerships: Collaborate with NGOs, advocacy groups, and Ukrainian aid organizations to align stories with relief efforts.
Press & Thought Leadership: Secure op-eds, interviews, and speaking engagements for Karen to amplify survivor voices in global media.
Activating Networks: Mobilize the ELYSIAN Circle, Daughters of Change, and global women’s leadership communities as multipliers.
Call-to-Action Bridges: Link storytelling directly to impact—donation portals, petitions, aid drives, and policy initiatives.
OUR DOCUMENTARIES
Fight for Ukraine: Twelve Women’s War, an award-winning feature-length documentary, examines how women have maintained their humanity in the face of horror, amidst atrocities, and reveals how they created their own path ways to impact a nation underscored by fear — fear of occupation, fear of the brutality that awaits being captured, and fear of the unknown.
Inspired by a Kiev mural depicting hands of a soldier, woman, and child, producer Karen Floyd returns to war-torn Ukraine, seeking hope amidst chaos. Ukraine: For the Children, an award-winning 90-minute documentary, follows this journey as a sequel to ELYSIAN Production’s award-winning Fight for Ukraine: Twelve Women’s War (2023).
STORIES OF CHANGE
A Chance Encounter That Changed Everything
War alters landscapes, but it also alters lives.
During the filming of Ukraine: For the Children, Publisher and Film Producer Karen Floyd moved through military hospitals, battered towns, and front-line shelters to document the human cost of the conflict.
It was in one of those hospitals in Kyiv that she met Sasha — a young Ukrainian soldier whose injuries were so catastrophic that survival itself was a miracle. In a room heavy with the smell of antiseptic and quiet resilience, a bond formed instantly.
Neither of them knew it at the time, but this meeting would ignite a sequence of events stretching across continents, connecting strangers, and ultimately giving Sasha a second chance at life.
Sasha’s Story: From the Front Lines to an Uncertain Future
Sasha had been serving on the front lines when violence burst through the earth beneath him. The injuries he sustained left him facing a future defined by loss — loss of limbs, loss of mobility, loss of the life he once knew.
When Karen first encountered him, he was still fighting—this time for survival, dignity, and hope. The war had taken nearly everything, but it had not taken his spirit.
Yet after Karen left Ukraine, contact with Sasha faded. She continued filming across the country, carrying the memory of their conversation but fearing she might never see him again.
A Miraculous Reconnection
Months later, standing under the South Carolina stars at an outdoor screening of Ukraine: For the Children, fate intervened.
Among the audience was a Ukrainian couple who recognized Sasha’s story.
In an instant, the thread between Ukraine and the U.S. snapped back into place:
Sasha was alive. He had made it out of Ukraine. And he was now in Minnesota, beginning prosthetic rehabilitation at the Protez Foundation.
The miracle had a name. And a location.
Mobilizing Support: How Storytelling Sparked Action
Once Sasha was found, the community rallied.
The power of story, seeing Sasha’s courage on screen moved people to act.
Charleston Premiere
At the private premiere of Ukraine: For the Children at the American Theater in Charleston, a packed audience leaned into Sasha’s story. Many stood the entire evening because the venue was beyond capacity.
In just one night, over $100,000 was raised to support his prosthetics and rehabilitation journey.
Where Sasha Is Now
Today, Sasha is deep into rehabilitation, learning to navigate life with new prosthetics and rebuilt strength. Each step forward, literally and figuratively, is a victory over the violence that tried to define him.
His journey is far from over, but he no longer walks it alone.
He is surrounded by a global community that believes in him.
Why His Story Matters
Sasha’s case is a cornerstone example of what ELYSIAN Aid stands for:
Storytelling → Action → Impact
Through a single encounter in a Kyiv hospital, a chain reaction unfolded:
A story was documented.
A connection discovered.
A community mobilized.
Funds were raised.
A life was rebuilt.
This is the mission in motion.
This is the work.
OUR AWARDS & IMPACT
Ukraine: For the Children has emerged as a powerful testament to survival, sacrifice, and hope, capturing intimate stories from the war-torn nation through the lens of Karen Floyd and co-producer Artem Petroshchuk, former Ukrainian Territorial Defense Commander. Screened in global cities and featured at the prestigious Cannes Doc Day at the Palais des Festivals—the film has ignited dialogue on resilience and the human cost of conflict.
Nowhere was its impact more profound than at the World Changers Summit at the Vatican, where Floyd not only unveiled a moving vignette but also moderated high-level discussions on social responsibility, welfare, and peace. With her unique bipartisan credibility, she convened leaders across political divides at screenings in the Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), Charleston, and Las Vegas, underscoring her rare ability to unite people behind humanitarian causes. Through this work, Floyd demonstrates how storytelling fused with diplomacy can transcend politics, amplify unheard voices, and foster pathways toward justice and peace.
UKRAINE: FOR THE CHILDREN AWARDS
FIGHT FOR UKRAINE: 12 WOMEN'S WAR AWARDS
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