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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…
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"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…
read moreIt'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…
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International 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…
read more"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…
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"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…
read more‘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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Caritas Spes Ukraine has launched a humanitarian aid hotline
We have launched a hotline for humanitarian aid from Caritas Spes Ukraine. Call 0800 300 344 Monday to Friday from 9 am to 7 pm. Calls from mobile operators are free.
read more"I can't just sit idle here". The story of Katya from Vorzel
I met Katya in the lobby of a cozy pilgrimage center that receives internally displaced persons. It seemed to me at first that the girl was working here dealing with organizational issues because she held a notebook in her hands and…
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How Caritas-Spes works in Transcarpathia
Going to the mountains in peacetime has always meant something blessed. Prior to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops, Transcarpathia was a picturesque region where our Mission operated. Before the war, Caritas Spes offered…
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