Response to the Residents of Luhans’ka and Donets’ka Oblasts

Deterioration of the security situation in Avdeevka
Avdeevka. Throughout the night on January 30th, we have been receiving worrying reports about continuous shelling. Local citizens were up all night. At the sunrise we went to Avdeevka. Over the past two days, the situation has only worsened. In spite of the signed accords on cease-fire, the heaviest weapons are unleashed. Throughout the night and ... Read More...

Community Protection Centers in Mariinka and Krasnohorivka continue their work
The functioning of CPCs in Mariinka and Krasnohorivka, established by the City Aid Center under umbrella of UNICEF, is underway. It seems like not while ago, we have been preparing for opening ceremony, while now we realize that the summer is almost over. The Centers serve to be a place where children can communicate with their peers, attend ... Read More...

Charitable medical assistance mission to the affected population in towns and villages located in the ATO zone
The City Aid Center in mutual effort with the Christian Medical Association initiated the new project – the charitable medical examinations by physicians, ophthalmologists, including distributions of spectacles, and other medical services, for the people who live near the frontline of ATO zone. The Christian Medical Association is made up of ... Read More...

No longer needed for anyone…
Recently, the insecurity has been intensified again around the small towns of Mariinka and Krasnohorovka located just a few kilometers from the city of Donetsk. Not so long ago people had to wait for many hours in a long line of cars to get through check points, but when we approached one of the check points this time we did not seen a single car. ... Read More...

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 the country with the best fertile land, ... Read More...

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. One ... Read More...

The first day over many days without bombings
The City Aid Center regularly takes trips to Luhan’sk and Donets’k region. On January 16, 2015 we planned another trip, this time to Krasnohorovka, Mar’ynka region, which is 9 km from Donets’k. Due to more frequent attacks and aggravation of the situation in Donets’ka oblast, have decided to send a small team of two people. We left early in the ... Read More...

Break Murphy’s Law and do good works!
People may stay in comfort of their homes, be replete and content with life and pretend that nothing is happening around. People may feel indifferent to other people’s grief, sorrows and pain, and think that this would never happen to them. The other day I’ve come across an interesting saying «Break Murphy’s Law – do good works». The ... Read More...

Aid to the Residents of Luhans’ka and Donets’ka Oblasts
Today, people who reside in the combat zone in the eastern Ukraine are deprived of a normal life and have many needs to be addressed. Through relief programs for the displaced people from those areas at their new places of temporary residence, and through obtaining a lot of information about the living conditions of those who stayed in the area ... Read More...

Deterioration of the security situation in Avdeevka