Help Ukraine's refugees to make a new start

Hello, dear friends. We are happy to share about our activities for the last three months.

Thanks to your support we could organize few different programs to make joyful Christmas and New Year celebrations for our beneficiaries. One of the programs was the online Handmade Charity Fair, where our beneficiaries also could exhibit their crafts and raise funds to support their families. We prepared New Year gifts for each child.

   One of such children was 16-years old Julia who moved out from Donbas six years ago together with her mother Svitlana. First, they lived free of charge in a factory dispensary, but then they had to move out and stay in a rented apartment without furniture or a bed. In the beginning, they had to sleep on the floor, putting bags of clothes under their heads. Both mother and daughter have health problems: Svitlana needs surgery, Julia has a chronic heart condition. Women’s Federation has included their family in the support group, providing material and psychological assistance.

            For Saint Nicholas Day that is celebrated in Ukraine on December 19, the Women’s Federation for World Peace organized the festive event for IDP kids with gifts, honey gingerbread, and a fun contest program.

            Another Saint Nicholas Day for families with many children and IDP families went with the support of the Goloseevsk regional administration in Kyiv. Children and parents enjoyed the festive program and gifts very much.

            We also provided financial aid for renovating the rehabilitation center in the village of Volodarka, Kyiv oblast. The Centre is planned to host for rehabilitation and recreation of IDP children, as well as children whose parents died in the war.

            Thank you for making such a happy start of the year possible! We wish all of you a wonderful year of 2021!

Links:

• Saint Nicholas celebration in Goloseevo
• Saint Nicholas celebration for IDPs

Our dearest friends, we want to share with you about our latest work in helping Internally Displaced People from the Eastern Ukraine.

Together with the regional Red Cross Society in Kyiv, Women’s Federation continues special monthly workshops for those who need additional psychological assistance. The project is called "Social adaptation of demobilized soldiers and their families, internally displaced people from the conflict zone". It has themematic organized activities for group work and individual classes with qualified psychologists. One of such workshops for 52 families was held on August 4 under the title "Emotional Literacy".

On August 11 WFWP-Ukraine became a partner of the 5th Charity Festival "Children of God". We invited our beneficiaries to this holiday of childhood and kindness. Except our dear IDPs there were also large families and families in need. About 1000 children took part in the festival that included a buffet and a festive concert with the participation of Ukrainian pop stars and talented children from all over Ukraine.

As many of our beneficiaries faced serious difficulties during the quarantine, we kept giving them financial and in-kind help.

For example, warm and casual clothes, shoes and toys were given to Viktoria, whose husband is fighting in ATO zone and whose son has autism.

Another family that received material, psychological and legal assistanceis is Volodymyr, Tetiana and their disabled adult son. When they were able to travel to Luhansk in 2018 for the first time after the 2014 bombing, they discovered seven craters from military explosions in their home. Going through many difficulties they strongly dream of going home and repairing the house. 

There were two other families from Slovyansk, Donetsk region who stay there and who received clothes and shoes by post.

Thank you, our dear friends, for making all this work possible!

Links:

• 5th Charity Festival "Children of God"
• Psychological workshop "Emotional Literacy"