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!
23.04.2023
“I didn’t want him to go. I was very scared. He was scared too. He was crying. In my dream he told me he was coming back. He didn’t come back.” We meet a sobbing woman on the Field of Mars in Lviv. She can’t cope with the fact that her beloved is gone.
The cemetery-monument to the Red Army soldiers is next to Lychakiv cemetery. Until recently, a square commemorating times justly past. Crude, empty. Now it is becoming a vivid, painful and heartrending burial place for the men from Bakhmut, Izium, Liman, the whole of the now blood-stained east of Ukraine.
Ukrainian state and military flags flutter over the graves. There are parents, girlfriends, friends, inconsolable, bitter, weeping over the graves. Victims of man’s hatred at the helm of the machine of destruction. The average age is twenty-something. Wladek, 22, in uniform, woollen cap, with a child’s gaze. Over Andrija’s grave, his parents. They are watching as if by a hospital bed. They would like to hope that Andriy will recover and all will be well. It won’t. He had a girlfriend, a school and dreams. He did everything for Ukraine to win. But the heroism wasn’t necessary at all.
The sight of the Fields of Mars makes you gasp with bitterness. Here one wants to howl. It is not the graves of the fallen, it is the despair of the living. In a week’s time there will be more graves. They are shooting again in Bakhmut.
30.01.2024
Smart Charity – Using Technology to Make a Difference The usage and expenses related to new technologies have dominated the business world, and this trend extends to non-profit organizations. What technological solutions are used in non-profit organizations? What are the characteristics of Smart Charity? Smart Charity is a new concept describing a modern and agile […]
12.06.2023
To our questions about estimated casualty numbers, the most common answer is: “A lot! On both sides!”. Exactly how many no one knows, because getting aid to the occupied territories is like asking the aggressor for an open day in his trenches. On the 11th of June, the Russians fired on a boat with civilians […]
02.05.2023
What if this was your neighbourhood? If, between the billowing smoke, you spotted the ruins of the grocery store where you had shopped since you were a child? To which your mother would still send you with a list written in pencil on a piece of paper so you wouldn’t forget anything? Bachmut had more […]
