September 30 – October 7, 2023

Fastiv, 30.09 – 07.10.23

Praised be Jesus Christ!

This week brought a lot of sadness and tears, because of dozens of killed and wounded civilians. All this causes anger, bitterness and pain. We feel a certain helplessness and understand that we need to make more efforts to protect the civilian population. To do this, we are implementing our project in Kherson, a city that suffers daily from enemy shelling. In particular, in recent weeks, not a day has passed without someone being maimed or killed. We need shelters that will protect ordinary people and will be places of safety and “comfort”. We see how the Kherson City Military Administration consistently and persistently repairs and puts shelters in various areas of the city into use.

Our help to the Administration and the citizens is the arrangement of these safe places with tables, benches, chairs and fire extinguishers, in total we helped equip 20 shelters. We thank our partners of the Pomoc Polska project, the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Kyiv, the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Ukraine, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland to Ukraine Mr. Bartosz Cichocki. Currently, more than 40 shelters are being repaired, we invite the cooperation of our partners to help the people of Kherson survive this terrible and difficult time.

This week we were able to hand over our car to the border guards, we are glad that we could support our Defenders. Our social kitchen in Kherson works and feeds more than 1,000 people with warm lunches every day.

This week, we also received strong support from MHP-Myronivsk Poultry Farm: 1000 kg of frozen chicken. 500 kg have already been delivered to Kherson for free dinners. We thank the Ministry of Defense for their support of the civilian population during the difficult time of armed Russian aggression. We also delivered meatballs to Kherson, which we received last week from KPRM and the Agency for Strategic Reserves of the Republic of Poland. Thanks to the Republic of Poland for the solidarity and support of ordinary citizens of Ukraine.

This week we have sent 300 parcels of targeted aid to forcibly displaced families. We thank our partner Nova Poshta for providing 10,000 points to send aid to Ukrainians in need. We distributed 1,483 food kits, a total of 15,300 kg of humanitarian aid. The collection of warm things and gas burners and generators continues. We understand that it is becoming increasingly difficult to support, the cold season is approaching, but supporting each other is the only way we can move forward.

With prayers

Fr. Mykhailo Romaniv OP