Today, February 24, 2023, is the anniversary of the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine. Caritas Internationalis and the National Office team of Caritas-Spes Ukraine would like to invite you to join the prayer of the Way of the Cross. We want to call this Way of the Cross “The 366th station” to symbolize ...
“My name is Tetyana Bilyaeva, I come from the Kherson region in the Goloprystansky district, village Novaya Zburjivka. I worked as a methodologist in a kindergarten. I worked as a director of a community centre, which means I always had to deal with people, with children. That’s what I always liked. And when the war ...
With the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine last year on February 24, the Caritas network in Ukraine and in the neighbouring countries of Poland, Romania, Moldova, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Hungary, have worked tirelessly to provide humanitarian assistance to more than 5,3 million people impacted by violence and unrest in the eastern European ...
Tetiana, doctor In Ukraine, she worked as a paediatrician in a local hospital. Tetiana’s family managed to literally escape to safety, to Slovakia. After a difficult period, she enjoys completely ordinary activities such as cooking jam or working in the garden which make her happy. Irina, teacher The English and Bulgarian teacher’s home was ...
More than 300,000 Ukrainian refugees have already found asylum in the Czech Republic. 40 per cent of them are children. But many of them do not go to educational institutions because there is not enough place for them. Caritas Czech Republic has therefore set up the Young Caritas club for Ukrainian children, which currently consists ...
The border crossing to Romania was the light at the end of the tunnel for Iryna, her daughter, her sister-in-law, and her two daughters, escaping from the war in Ukraine. Iryna Pysarenko (31 years old) is a mother from Drushkovka in the Donetsk region in Ukraine. She came to Romania on April 4, 2022, with ...
Following the massive missile strikes by Russia in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and in the cities of Lviv, Kharkiv, Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia earlier this week, Caritas Ukraine and Caritas Spes-Ukraine have issued a joint statement reiterating their strong call for “an end to the violence”. Tetiana Stawnychy, President of Caritas Ukraine and Father Vyacheslav ...
Caritas Internationalis: “Stop the conflict immediately. Ukrainian people must have the opportunity to start rebuilding their lives”. On the day marking six months since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, Caritas Internationalis launches a new appeal for peace, drawing attention to the high cost of this war in terms of human lives and the ...
Nearly five months since the outbreak of war in Ukraine on February 24, Caritas Confederation member organisations have been on the ground within Ukraine and in neighbouring countries – including Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Lithuania, Moldova and beyond – to provide humanitarian assistance and support to over 1.7 million internally displaced persons and refugees. As ...
No one plans to have to urgently leave their home, to leave behind everything you have gained over the years of effort and work. On the early morning of February 24 millions of Ukrainians woke up in the horrific reality of the war due to the Russian invasion. Millions of Ukrainians were forced to take ...