UOC delivers 200 food packages to refugees in Kyiv
Distribution of humanitarian aid in Kyiv. Photo: t.me/blago_church_ua
On March 4, 2023, in Kyiv, employees of the Synodal Department for Social and Humanitarian Affairs of the UOC delivered humanitarian aid to 200 IDP families, the press service of the Social Department of the UOC reports.
Refugees and IDPs in Kyiv receive such humanitarian packages from the Social Department of the UOC on a weekly basis. Humanitarian aid is also distributed to families with many children and the disabled.
The humanitarian aid package includes: three types of cereals, pasta, canned meat, butter, sugar, tea, condensed milk or sweet jam, washing powder, soap, shampoo.
As the UOJ reported earlier, Kharkiv believers donated humanitarian aid and medicines to the Izium children.
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