On the 24th of February 2022, Russia launched a military offensive into Ukraine, causing civilian casualties and destroying the country’s infrastructure. More than a quarter of the population has been forced to flee their homes. In the first few weeks, more than 4.3 million refugees fled Ukraine, and a second as many were internally displaced. It is the fastest growing refugee crisis since World War II.
We cannot be indifferent to the suffering of our neighbours – we immediately set out to help!
25.03.2022
Many thanks to all those who lit the “Light for Ukraine” with us yesterday outside the Ukrainian Embassy. We would also like to thank all those who did so in their homes. In the evening we were joined by Andriy Deshchytsya, the Ukrainian Ambassador in Poland. He received a candle and our assurance that we will not forget and will never get complacent about this war.
We are also still doing everything we can to support the victims of war. We exchange the income from the candles for the products that are most needed today in the cities caught up in the fighting. Cleaning products, warm clothes, sleeping bags and, above all, food. Today, another shipment is leaving for Mykolaiv.
See you outside the Ukrainian Embassy next week! Slava Ukraini!
27.04.2022
The women and children left on the first train, the elderly on the second – including Olena, who miraculously escaped danger. The third train was meant to take the remaining people, but fell under gunfire. No more trains left after that. The war in Ukraine continues and we stand in solidarity with war-stricken Ukraine. Olena […]
22.04.2022
Today, we are on our way back again to Lwiątko, a small rural kindergarten in Ukraine, which has become a shelter for children evacuated from Zhytomyr at the beginning of the war. Lwiątko needs a pump for its well, as the problem of no running water is affecting it more and more. We will also […]
18.04.2022
Irpin, Bucza, Hostomel … The scale of the incredible atrocities committed there is striking. The roads on which the Russians entered Ukraine from the north are roads of death, evoking among the Rwandans the worst memories of the genocide from which their country is still healing its wounds. Despite two such different and distant worlds, […]
