February 24,- March 2, 2024

Fastiv, 24.02.-2.3.2024

Praised be Jesus Christ!

Ordinary things make up our daily life – it’s all the things we love, what we’re used to, and this includes food in particular. So the story… In 2014, together with our parishioners, we went to cook borscht and burgers for our Defenders, somewhere near Mariupol. They wanted delicious Ukrainian borscht there in the field, do you remember Oleksiy Kolesnyk Why am I mentioning this, because this story was repeated with Siversk, in Donetsk region.

A month ago, the residents of the city, who were left to live in very difficult conditions in basements without electricity and water, near their broken homes, asked us for vegetables: cabbage, beets, carrots to prepare borscht. Of course, hygiene products, medicines, flashlights, all the things that are missing for everyday life, warm clothes, water bottles, were also included in the list of necessary things. We thank our brothers from Transcarpathia for them. For the potatoes, we thank the “Karmil” farm, in Trylisy village. We thank Ms. Arina Piskovska from Warsaw for the feminine hygiene products. We thank the volunteer Ireneusz Gajlun, who dedicates his time and comes to us from Poland to help Ukraine. We also stopped in Kramatorsk to hand over the much-needed portable EW, tactical first-aid kits, and sleeping bags to the military.

This week we again sent food kits to IDPs who live in different cities and towns and still need support. Each of these families has their own story of pain. Thank you, Humanitarian Nova Poshta, for the Partnership and payment of delivery. We are grateful to the benefactors for their support, thanks to you, we distributed 1,858 basic food kits, a total of 16,550 kg of humanitarian aid.

We continue collecting for tourniquets, we have only 26500 UAH left to collect. We ask for a donation and a repost, we also continue to collect candles, flashlights, power banks, adult diapers, “dry shower”, wet wipes and fast food. And with this link you can support the opening of the Bread bakery in Kherson: https://zrzutka.pl/g5598m

Thank you to everyone who is with us on this road to Victory and a just peace for Ukraine.

With prayer

Fr. Mykhailo Romaniv OP