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In Sumy Oblast, Caritas-Spes is providing assistance through Orthodox churches

In Sumy Oblast, Caritas-Spes is providing assistance through Orthodox churches

The ‘Caritas-Spes Kharkiv’ team are doing their best to reach remote villages to deliver the assistance. In Sumy Oblast, the aid is distributed by Orthodox priests.

Being a volunteer from Sumy, Natalia knows these villages like the back of her hand. She says, ‘So many different stories. Lots of poor people. Old people, sick people, multi-child ones. I tried my best to get to these villages on my own. I phoned the priests I know, asked them to get necessities and to invite the people to the church. We came there and provided them with assistance’.

‘Father Serhiy from the village of Hrebenivka says there were terrible incidents in the village, like executions by shooting and other types of execution. He knows his fellow villagers and provided assistance to them’. Father Serhiy told Natalia that the Russian troops stayed at their homes. The people are happy to be liberated from them but are afraid of their return. In the village of Hrebenivka, Father Roman is Natalia’s friend. He himself delivered assistance to the homes of the people with special needs. In such a manner, in the village of Bilky Father Volodymyr handed in boxes with goods to his fellow villagers. The letter in the photo was written by Vanya, Father Volodymyr’s son.

In the village of Kamyanka, Father Oleksiy runs an old people’s home. Natalia says she is looking for people who do not know how to live on. ‘I don’t pay attention to people’s passions. I’m looking for people staying in church shelters and going from one village to another helping people in need. At times, meeting the children in these villages, I notice their adult looks. Each of them has come through hard times but I do believe good will win, as will Ukraine’.

The ‘Caritas-Spes Ukraine’ Mission thanks our Polish partners and every family involved in getting those boxes of assistance packed not only with various stuff but also with their warming letters full of such precious lines of support.

15 April 2022
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