In September – November we’ve sent 21 boxes of humanitarian aid – weighing 1241.7 pounds.
The mission of charity work at our parish does not stop, but only gaining momentum. We find new wards – this is the category of people who need help and we try to take care of them on a monthly basis. We also keep finding new like-minded friends who support our charity.
Over the past three months we have collected a lot of clothes, toys, shoes, hygiene products, products necessary to take care of the seriously ill people, vitamins, baby food, blankets, pillows, candies, books and many other useful things necessary in Ukraine.
We help on a regular basis to:
– the Municipal Institution “Center for Social and Psychological Rehabilitation of Children” from the Kirovograd Regional Council;
– the Charitable Foundation “I Am the Future of Ukraine” (volunteer Martha Levchenko);
– the Holy Pokrovsk parish in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region (the frontline zone), abbot priest Alexander Soldatenko;
– families of Ukrainian veterans and servicemen, families of perished and captured defenders of Ukraine (entrusted volunteer Oksana Chervonaya);
– children undergoing treatment in the TB department (taken care by priests from the Kropyvnytckaya eparchy in Kirovograd region);
– adults and children with special needs (taken care by the priest Mykhailo Nidzelsky in Novovolynsk).
– the mission of the social service which takes care of: homeless, lonely recumbent patients, socially disadvantaged people, families having children with orphan diseases (operates at the Vydubitsky friary in Kyiv, headed by Roman Kholodov).
This month, we joined another good deed and have collected the first parcel for “Mother Home” organized by a volunteer Olga Cherevatova. It operates in the village named Luka-Meleshkivs’ka in Vinnytskaya region. This center is a shelter for mothers with children who have lost or had no roof over their heads. Here women can get everything they need for a happy motherhood and for adjusting their lives together with their children not letting them get to shelters but growing up in a family.
The most feedback which we get is from the pupils in the Social Rehabilitation Center which shelters the children with hard luck. Mostly, they never received parental care, warmth, caress and even basic livelihoods. From the words of their teacher, sometimes a child even cannot believe that a warm jacket which he is given was meant for him. They ask several times whether they can really have it, they hug, they jump, they show their sincere happiness to every thing we send. A lot of positive photos are sent to us from the center, where children are happy to pose in their new clothes.
Not only Ukrainians learn about our activities from Internet. Recently, an American woman who read our post about the children from the center approached to our abbot, priest Oleksiy. She expressed a desire to join our mission. The same month, thanks to Vivien, we have sent new winter jackets and winter shoes to the children. We hope that before the first winter holiday of St. Nicholas comes the children will get wonderful gifts – warm shoes and clothes.
People often ask what are the most necessary things to be sent to children in Ukraine?
The most urgent needs are:
– shoes (new and used ones);
– hygiene products (diapers, pampers, soap, shampoos, toothpastes, brushes and more);
– warm clothes in winter;
– baby food;
– vitamins, antipyretics, anti-lice remedies;
– in winter time we send children candies, tea, cocoa, cereals.
We express our huge thanks to all our friends who join the parish charity mission. Every time we get a lot of thanks from those who has received our help, volunteers and priests keep sending us reports about the usage of the things we’ve sent.
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