January 29 – February 4, 2023

Fastiv, 29.01 – 4.02.2023

Prasied be Jesus Christ.

​The week that is ending was full of meetings with new and old friends. We would like to thank Mrs. Tetyana Semenova and Mr. Oleksandr Volynets from Fastiv city-district organization of the Red Cross Society of Ukraine for supporting our Center at 57 Kyivska Street.

Since the beginning of the full-scale war, together with the San Angelo coffeehouse, we have baked bread for the needy and the military, we baked 48,864 loaves of bread, which went to many parts of Ukraine that were affected by the war – where we went with our missions and served. People always took this bread with great gratitude, often kissed and hugged it, we have many such stories from both Borodyanka and Izyum. We thank Herritage for Needs Mrs. Linker for five tons of flour, salt and sugar.​

This week, our volunteers delivered humanitarian aid to Odesa, where are now many displaced people from the south of our country who need help. In total, this week we distributed 1,808 food kits totaling 15,404 kg of humanitarian aid.

Thank you to those who responded after our last publication: father Oleg, director of the Caritas-Zhytomyr Charitable Fund, VBF “Depol Ukraine”, personally, Mr. Dmytro, and our partners, the NGO Ostersky Women’s Movement Trust from Chernihiv, for helping with diapers for adults and children.​

A pleasant surprise was the arrival of the director of the “Help to War Victims” foundation, Mr. Pawel Stępień, with whom we discussed our future plans for cooperation.​

We continue the project “Warm up at the nativity scene”, in a week we distributed 850 portions of Ukrainian borscht, we express our gratitude for the disposable dishes to Mrs. Olena Kudryashova from Univest Marketing LLC.

We would like to express our gratitude to our friends from Zwolle, Mr. Peter and Frans van der Heijdt, who supported us this week and do not leave us without care during this difficult time.

The collection of “adult” diapers for bedridden patients in Kharkiv continues, we need 800 packs of sizes L and XL.

Thank you to every volunteer for their daily work and sacrifice and to everyone who supports us! We are grateful to you for these 346 days of struggle, which we are conducting together until Victory!

father Mykhailo Romaniv OP