UOC Social Department directs UAH 3 million to charity – report

Synodal Department of the UOC in Kyiv. Photo: t.me/blago_church_ua

The Synodal Social Department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has reported on the results of its social ministry in 2025, noting that assistance was provided to internally displaced persons and those affected by the war. UOC's charitable aid in 2025 reached thousands of people in need and totaled more than 3 million hryvnias. This was reported by the department’s press service.

As part of the “Mission of Mercy” program, the Synodal Department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church carried out 12 humanitarian trips to frontline regions, delivering more than 30 tons of humanitarian aid.

The total volume of supported initiatives reached 3,103,277 hryvnias. Areas of assistance included support for internally displaced persons, low-income families, and residents of frontline territories.

Over the year, more than 5,000 food packages and essential goods were distributed to those in need. At Kyiv’s railway station, more than 7,200 portions of hot meals were handed out.

Among the social initiatives were the distribution of more than 3,000 sweet gifts to children of displaced families and pupils of boarding schools, as well as the charitable project “Backpack of Mercy,” under which schoolchildren received sets of school supplies and backpacks worth around 300,000 hryvnias.

The department’s leadership emphasized that such projects became possible thanks to the participation of UOC eparchies, monasteries, and laypeople, united by the desire to help people amid the ongoing conflict.

As previously reported by the UOJ, similar efforts are also being undertaken in regional eparchies – in Kharkiv, a hierarch and clergy of the UOC donated blood for soldiers and civilians, while in Rivne, the UOC held a charitable festival to support children with cancer.

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