January, 13-20, 2024

Fastiv, 13-20.01.24

Praised be Jesus Christ!

In the first half of last year, the Makariv Music School, which was badly damaged by shelling, asked us for help: the school premises, musical instruments and the building itself were destroyed.

The famous conductor, doctor of musical sciences, director of the Great Theater in Łódź, Mr. Marcin Nałęcz – Niesiołowski, covered 2,837 km in a charity marathon, raising funds for a music school in Makariv. A few days ago, we handed over musical instruments for the music school in Makariv, assembled in such an amazing way. Thank you for the Partnership Charitable Foundation – your support is invaluable.

This week volunteer Mr. Pavlo Bandazhevsky brought another humanitarian transport, which will be delivered to those in need in the East and South in the coming days.

We are always happy to receive positive feedback from our Partners on joint projects. One of these is the Aybolit medical transfer project, which we are implementing together with the brave Ms. Viktoria Kramarenko, director of the charitable organization “Wings of Victory”. We are glad that we can help the wounded defenders and their families. The number of transportation requests is increasing, often all three cars are occupied. Mrs. Victoria makes sure that our veteran defenders receive a professional help case. In January, we expanded the range of restoration and rehabilitation services and launched a swimming project with relevant documentation. In the pool, the injured defenders are accompanied by a case manager, who is also a rehabilitator. This month, 50 people received the medical transfer service.

We do not stop supporting forcibly displaced persons from the South of Ukraine who live in Odesa, these days our volunteers took humanitarian aid there. Our social kitchen in Kherson is working, 2,836 meals have been prepared. Shelling and cold were a new challenge that we overcame together, we thank our administrator Olena Poteryaiko.

We are grateful for the help of the Office of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland and the Strategic Reserve Agency, which delivered blankets and pillows to us.

Thank you to the Dolindo Foundation for the 50 tourniquets that were personally brought to us yesterday. Tourniquets save lives. Thank you! Another batch of targeted aid was sent thanks to Nova Poshta Humanitarian. Together, 1,848 basic food kits – 14,400 kg of humanitarian aid – were distributed.

The collection for tourniquets for tactical first aid kits for the Armed Forces continues. The goal is 150 tourniquets for 81,000 UAH, another 50,000 UAH is needed before closing!!. To Victory step by step, we walk next to those who are weaker.

From Ukraine with prayer

Fr. Mykhailo Romaniv OP