UOC Social Department delivers gifts to Okhmatdyt patients
Representatives of the Social Department of the UOC in Okhmatdyt. December 23, 2025 Photo: TG channel "Church Helps"
On December 23, 2025, with the blessing and support of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry, representatives of the Social Department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church delivered gifts to patients and staff of a department of the National Specialized Children’s Hospital Okhmatdyt. This was reported by the Telegram channel “The Church Helps”.
Deputy Head of the UOC Social Department, Archpriest Kostiantyn Dvorovyi, and Head of the Department for Social Ministry and Charity of the Kyiv Eparchy, Archpriest Andriy Dvorovyi, congratulated the children and hospital staff on the feast day of St Nicholas the Wonderworker and the upcoming holidays.
The UOC Social Department expressed gratitude to the donors who helped make the charitable initiative possible.
Earlier, the UOJ reported that the Sumy Eparchy had donated more than one million hryvnias to children with cancer.
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