“It’s very important…. and it’s very painful. These were our fathers and grandfathers. We should honour their memory and accompany them on this day. They defended us so that we could live.” says resident of Maiaky, Oleksandra...
Some twenty soldiers are sitting at a table, assiduously drawing and painting angels with the help of volunteers. Most of them have never worked on paper or canvas. The task is to draw an angel. Artur Spirin is one of the few veterans that...
At the start of the war in Donbas, volunteers saved the Ukrainian army, providing everything from socks to sniper rifles. But as time passes, the role of these so-called volunteers comes up for discussion more and more often. Are they...
“Where’d all the good people go I’ve been changin’ channels I don’t see them on the TV shows Where’d all the good people go We got heaps and heaps of what we sow” (Jack Johnson, “Good People,” from the...
The role of volunteers in sustaining the Ukrainian armed forces against the backdrop of Russian aggression cannot be overestimated. In 2014, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lacked troops, capacity, and resources. On 28 February 2014, at the...
The shelter is overcrowded; there are now 179 dogs, and new strays are systematically turned away. “This is an industrial city; homeless dogs find shelter in factories and construction sites. We feed and care for these animals; we have a...
Before Russia’s war in the East, Oleksandr Shkatula worked in a restaurant in his native city of Makiivka. That is where he made the first steps in cheese making. What started off as a hobby has turned into a process of boiling 100...
In 2006, 85,000 people in Ukraine were estimated to be homeless. Officially, there are around 12,000 homeless people in Kyiv alone, but the numbers are believed to be much higher. A grassroots organization called “Help the Homeless”...
This project is run as a private initiative under the auspices of KRYLA Ukrainian Volunteer Association http://kryla.org.ua/. Your generous gift is used to provide direct financial assistance to wounded soldiers and help purchase...
Natalia used to be a director of marketing in a pharmaceutical company, a successful businesswoman. Her whole life was revolving around her work and children: “I was living a completely different life. I was a shopaholic. I had...
On 11 October, a three-day meeting of the Synod, or church council, of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, finished in Istanbul. It gave further confirmation that Ukraine is on the path to receiving church independence from Moscow – and healing...
