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HONG KONG (SE): Caritas Interationalis together with Caritas Ukraine and Caritas Spes (Ukraine), launched an appeal that will allow them to help people in people in different parts of the country and especially in critical areas such as Kramatorsk, Rubizhne, Zaporizhya, Volnovakha, Mariupol, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Odesa, Ivano-Frankivk, according to a post on the Caritas.org website.
The post said that Caritas Ukraine and Caritas-Spes are already helping thousands of internally displaced personswho are now desperately searching for a safe shelter, both in western Ukraine and abroad. They are providing internally displaced people on the move with essential information, food, drinking water and personal hygiene kits, as well as a safe and secure place to sleep, eat and wash themselves.
Caritas staff and volunteers also provide safe transport for displaced families to reach their loved ones.
“Our cities, homes and kindergartens have been destroyed. But no one will not succeed in destroying our aspirations for peace and freedom,” said Father Vyacheslav Grynevych, the executive director of Caritas-Spes (Ukraine).
Caritas-Spes runs 22 small family homes throughout Ukraine and is providing safe transportation to its centres in western Ukraine for the children in their facilities and state centres in the eastern areas.
Tetiana Stawnychy, president of Caritas Ukraine, said, “I am truly proud of our team that are working hard to look to the needs of the most vulnerable, while managing their own circumstances as well. We are grateful for the outpouring of support from our partners and people of good will from abroad.”
Caritas Ukraine is also organising child-friendly spaces where young children can engage in sports and recreational activities as a means of helping them cope with the psychological stress caused by the conflict.
