"On February 24 we all passed the test of humanity" - Mira Milavets VIDEO
We received dozens of messages from people in different countries offering to help. We imported hundreds of tons of humanitarian aid into Ukraine and distributed it to cities and towns where it was possible to get it.
Today Caritas Spes Ukraine operates in 34 centers, including Berdyansk, an occupied city.
The humanitarian trucks have become a symbol of salvation because they carry what enables people to survive. More than 200,000 people have received assistance.
My name is Mira, I'm from Slovenia. I have been living in Ukraine for 3 years and work at Caritas Spes Ukraine.
From one day to the next life has completely changed!
When the Russian army occupied Ukraine on the morning of 24 February, bombing as many as 17 regions, including the towns nereby of the capital, the world started talking about the situation in Ukraine.
During the first month of the war, more than 12 million people were forced to flee their homes and more than 4 million became refugees abroad.
Since the first days of the occupation, Caritas Spes Ukraine has strengthened its mission to alleviate war-related suffering.
We have turned the basements of houses into shelters. We have installed heating plants at the borders. We set up centers for internally displaced people. We have fed, clothed and sheltered countless people.
Our employees worked tirelessly.
We received dozens of messages from people in different countries offering to help. We imported hundreds of tons of humanitarian aid into Ukraine and distributed it to cities and towns where it was possible to get it.
Today Caritas Spes Ukraine operates in 34 centers, including Berdyansk, an occupied city.
The humanitarian trucks have become a symbol of salvation because they carry what enables people to survive. More than 200,000 people have received assistance.
And we must not forget that behind each one there is a story, a life.
"If it weren't for God, we would be in the epicenter of hell".
"In the morning we saw tank tracks near our house. The danger was very close"
"We heard that a priest tried to help. In a car there was a mother with two children. The mother was hit by a bullet in one hand, the 6-year-old in the abdomen and the other in the arm. I don't know how they are now. The grenade hit our garden, there were "fireworks", the remains fell. Someone was wounded again. God help us!
These are part of stories of people who live in our centers or who have been taken in by our staff abroad.
Ukrainian children have become children of war in a single day.
When will they return to a normal life? When will we return to a normal life?
This photo of Borys Soyka's story was taken during a food delivery in the basement of Kharkov. Children, women and elderly people who for various reasons did not leave the city have become residents of the basement of the destroyed city. Kharkov is just one of dozens of cities that have been bombed. And there are cities that have still been occupied for more than a month.
A girl from Mariupol, a city that has unfortunately become world famous, told her story, which ended up in all the media as well as the phrase "one day I will return to Mariupol, live in my reconstructed house and go down to the basement to lay flowers in memory of my mother".
This is a photo of Bucha, which also became famous, where we managed to enter on the third day after the Russian army abandoned it.
But we are not stopping. Our help continues.
Thank you to everyone for your contribution, support, for your prayers that make us feel that we are not alone, but we are a family living to achieve peace.
