When the bombing near Kiev became unbearable, Rodina Vronyny, Kiril and Nadya left their home in a suburb of Kiev by car. They spent the night in Lviv, then Nadya and Kiril’s father drove them to the border. There, he had to say goodbye and go back to Kiev to fight in the war. It ...
Sven Klimaschewski, 35, spent the weekend tinkering at a car with a friend. The radio news about the war in Ukraine made him want to provide support himself. He contacted various organizations. He didn’t want to just drive to the Polish-Ukrainian border. That made no sense, says Sven Klimaschewski. “Nothing is worse than blocking the ...
The future was too uncertain for Khalina Stoyanowka. She waited for days for the war to end. She would have preferred to go back to work. She teaches Polish and Ukrainian. There was no end in sight. She decided to flee to Poland together with her daughters Alexandra and Veronika. There, her eldest daughter Irena ...
Ilyena Kamarolena, together with her husband Andrei and their 9-month-old son Bagdan, left Kharkiv on March 4. When the first bombs fell, they fled to the Zavod Imeni Malysheva metro station. People were sleeping on cots and on the ground, it was getting more crowded every day. Outside, she heard the rocket hits. Sometimes the ...
Katarzyna Kręglicka and her daughter Wiktoria, 6, have been volunteers at the Caritas Logistics Center in Lublin for about a week. They stopped counting the days. After connecting with people on Facebook who were hosting Ukrainian refugees in Lublin, they collected and donated items these families needed. They asked around about where else help was ...
Just over a week following the outbreak of war in Ukraine, the UNHCR has reported over 1,045,459 people have fled to neighbouring countries, including Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Moldova, Romania as well as Bulgaria, with the hope of finding safety for themselves and their loved ones during a time of intense violence and uncertainty. In response, ...
On this World Day of Migrants and Refugees, we join local churches and other faith-based communities in addressing the basic human needs of migrants and refugees who are forced to flee their homes and countries
Four hundred villages in Cox's Bazar have been flooded after days of rain. Most people in the area say they have never seen severe flood like this in the last decade.
Catholic Charities USA (our member in the United States of America) is ramping up its response to help migrants on the US-Mexico border following a massive influx in new arrivals.
The Rohingya people have once again faced a life or death situation, in the form of the devastating fire that recently hit the world’s largest refugee camp where they are living in Bangladesh.