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!
12.12.2022
The traditional Christmas Eve plate doesn’t have to stay empty at all this year….
7 different stories – each seemingly with no way out, a lost cause. Behind each are thousands of people who, like our protagonists, have been brought to the ultimate brink of hunger, poverty, cruelty, rejection and a life without hope.
Huruma (5 months old), Grandma Antoinette (85 years old), Zoia (58 years old), Celine (25 years old), Marcel (85 years old), Rachi (18 years old), Dave (29 years old) – we met each personally in different parts of the world. We introduced them to you and, little by little, you began to balance out the great losses in each story. Today, thanks to you, we are restoring life in them, providing care, security, work, dignity and the chance to build their future.
Each of your gestures and open hearts is the essence of embracing a guest, without which there is no Christmas Eve. It is a plate waiting for a guest who is ‘different’. Today at the Good Factory, we dream of having a Christmas Eve Plate of Good on every table on this one day of the year. It is not only an invitation for our charges to take an empty place at the table, but also real help, tailored to their needs. It is about restoring our charges’ hopes, dreams and faith in one more Christmas.
19.04.2023
One, two, three, four, five… The preschoolers and school children count aloud to one hundred. Two minutes. That’s how long the pauses between artillery fire lasted. The bodies of people who did not know when to flee lay in the streets. Mariupol was full of bomb craters, piles of rubble and soot-blackened ruins. Life had […]
14.04.2023
Krysia thought she knew what war was. Shots had been heard in Donetsk since 2014. Everyone, however, had become accustomed to the exchange of fire. Over time, the gunshots became one of the background sounds of daily life. On the 24th of February 2022, Krysia realised that she still knew nothing about war. “It was […]
13.04.2023
“I lived in the basement for six months,” says Sergei. A tired, wrinkle-ridden face, the sluggish movements of an elderly gentleman and the piercing pain in his battered left leg that reminds him of itself with every movement. The resident of Bakhmut is invigorated by the sight of the camera. He stares into the lens […]
