more beautiful than perpetual kindness”
Leo Tolstoy
Author Archives: Pavel Sulima
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Today, helping the needy is the cause for each and every one of us
It has been more than a year since Zaporizhzhya City Aid Center in the mutual effort with the State Emergency Agency officers is taking care of families among IDPs who live now in our region. The assistance includes psychological support, organization and delivery of mass events, encouraging children with presents and school kits. However, most […]
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Happy days of anticipation…
Every new day in the life of the City Aid Center is eventful, fruitful and unique. Each day brings us awareness that it was not spent in vain and that the coming people have been satisfied and left not empty-handed. In our work, we try to pay devoted attention to all visitors: families, lonely […]
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Bread is the staff of life
We have a saying, “Bread is the staff of life”! It had always been that way through centuries! However, no one could have ever imagined that in the 21st century, when the echoes of the WWII almost fell into silence, when the world’s civilization surpasses the limits of the human mind, here in Ukraine, in […]
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Working group of human rights protection of internally displaced persons.
On February 25 the Coordinating working group met at the City Aid Center on issues of human rights protection of internally displaced persons. The representatives of UN, the City Aid Center, the Head Office of the State Emergency Agency and social services have discussed the issues related to the internally displaced persons. To date, the […]
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Nearby frontline Berdyansk. Opening of the New Branch of the City Aid Center
In the beginning of the new 2015 year another wave of refugees flooded from Donets’k and Luhans’k. The continuing flow of people is trying to find rescue and peace in Zaporiz’ka oblast. Today among the displaced persons are those who would stay till the last days in their towns and villages, finding shelter in the […]
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Ukraine: Winter of 2015 seeing increased displacement, deteriorating humanitarian situation
Fierce fighting in the central Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine is creating new displacement, pushing the number of registered internally displaced people (IDPs) in Ukraine close to one million. Ukraine’s Ministry of Social Policy now puts the total number of registered IDPs countrywide at 980,000 – a figure that is expected to rise further as […]
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The Impacted Population of Luhans’ka and Donets’ka Oblasts is one of the Chief Concerns of Zaporizhzhya Volunteers
The volunteers of Zaporizhzhya City Aid Center have truly become a team of “Guardian Angels” for people who were forced to leave their homes and moved to safer places. The volunteers’ organizers are densely scribbled with plans on weekly trips to the settlements that are situated at the border line with the zone of anti-terrorist operation. […]
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Longing for spring and peace
Recent developments related to the war actions on the east of Ukraine had plunged people in Ukraine and around the world into a deep shock. The shelled bus in Volnovakha, trolleybus in Donetsk, firing of Mariupol by GRAD-type missiles – nothing is as bleak as the death of innocent civilians, nothing can be more absurd […]
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The City Aid Center in Action (video)
All activities of the City Aid Center are aimed at providing extensive and comprehensive assistance to IDPs. A non-profit organization The City Aid Center is one of the first in Zaporizhzhya who starting from June 2014 has been providing on a permanent basis a whole scope of assistance to internally displaced persons who now live […]
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Zaporizhzhya continues to provide shelter for IDPs from Donets’ka and Luhans’ka oblasts
Zaporizhzhya continues to prepare additional facilities for resettlement of internally displaced people from Donets’ka and Lugans’ka oblasts. One of the facilities set up for resettlement of for IDPs is situated at Lenin Avenue, 81. Previously the building was held by premises for the Center of alternative medicine practice. Upon completion of the lease contract and according […]
