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"It felt like the earth was shaking under us": the war story of a…
Imagine a world without sounds. You can't hear speeches, music, birdsong, news, sirens, explosions. In normal times, not being able to hear means perceiving the world in a different way, by touch, smells and colors, but during the war it…
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Caritas-Spes Odesa. How the team develops a powerful partner network abroad and…
Odesa region is constantly hit by missile attacks. It is increasingly becoming a target for attacks by Russian troops in the war against Ukraine.
read more"I know who bombed me. It was russia"- the rescue story of two…
I would come home on foot if they said that Mariupol is Ukrainian again. I am 60 years old, and now I am not sure whether the state will provide me with any housing at all. It is humiliating for us, even though we are not the ones to take…
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Caritas Spes Zhytomyr: overcoming the war challenges
Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the activities of the Caritas-Spes Zhytomyr team have not changed much as compared to pre-war times, but have become much broader. Until February 24, the Zhytomyr center…
read more"Live and Effective Communication Above All": a conversation with the…
At the beginning of the Ukrainian-Russian war many Caritas members had to master new working directions. Professional economist, Vitaliy Pazdriy, is not an exception. Until February 24, he worked as a project evaluation monitoring manager…
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It's all about sharing the grief: war stories uniting people
Wherever a person lives, in an apartment or a detached house, one always thinks of one's home. Especially during the war period. Caritas-Spes Pilgrimage Center in Western Ukraine has become a new temporary home for many IDPs. Here, in…
read moreInternational response to the war in Ukraine: Caritas partners meet in Warsaw…
In response to appeals from Caritas Ukraine, Caritas-Spes Ukraine and Caritas Poland, Caritas around the world has shown its support by implementing the programs to help victims of the war in Ukraine. The partners' meeting was attended by…
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"You just do what you have to do - you go to serve with God's help",…
More than three months have passed since a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine has started. This was the beginning of trials and new challenges for the entire Mission and Caritas Spes Kharkiv in particular. Workers and volunteers got…
read more"Non-stop service" or a story about the staff of Caritas-Spes…
There are state laws and spiritual laws. And one of such spiritual laws is the service of Man in this world.
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“We came back being even more oppressed, but that experience forced us to get…
Lviv has become a transit center for our Caritas-Spes Mission. Humanitarian aid trucks come here, and from here they go all over Ukraine: first to regional humanitarian hubs, then by trucks, buses, cars, and even trains to the most remote…
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‘We’re not alone! This is the most powerful message I’m bringing to Ukraine’,…
It’s difficult to imagine the end of the war’, added Father Vyacheslav. ‘I don’t believe the war will end just by concluding a peace treaty. The war will only end when we are able to forgive all those terrible things we’ve witnessed; when…
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