Camps
During the year “Caritas-Spes Ukraine” organizes rest and rehabilitation rounds almost for 3000 children. Moreover the “Caritas” parish centers organize the rest for children in their region. Children, who are patronized by “Caritas-Spes”, pertain to the most exposed strata of the Ukrainian society. These children are from the territory suffered from Chernobyl disaster, orphans, children from incomplete and problematic families, and children-invalids. The rest for these children is organized at the centers listed below:
Child’s village “Jablunytca” (Ivano-Frankivsk region).
This health center is situated in a beautiful place in the highland of the Carpathian Mountains. 770 children have a rest here during a year. There are all conditions of getting complete physical renewal (since children live there in favorable ecological surroundings), restoration of health, and improvement of physical and spiritual state of children.
Center in Oleksandrivka (Zhytomyr region).
In the course of year 530 children rest on the recreational tours at the health camp that is a part of the “Caritas-Spes Oleksandrivka” charitable center.
The “Oleksandrivka” center is situated in the picturesque place with beautiful nature. Favorable ecological factors and balanced food, also vitaminization courses and organism tempering – all these have positive effect on children’ physical state. Also saturated cultural, spiritual and educational programs promote their internal development.
Health camps “Nadija” and “Melody” (Zarichany, near Zhytomyr).
These camps are situated in a wonderful place on the side of river Teteriv in a pine forest. Children had a rest in it only in summer.
These camps during summer receives 900 children. These children who have a rest there have an opportunity to spend o lot of time out of doors, swim in the river and become brown. Sisters and priests, who work at the camp, together with mentors, who come with children, organize interesting and saturated cultural program.
Center in Vorzel (Kyiv region).
A health center is situated on the territory of the Higher Theological Seminary in Vorzel, Kyiv oblast. In particular, Vorzel is popular resort zone with salutary air, which is especially health-giving for children with diseases of respiratory system. The center receives children for recreation and restoration of health from January till March and from May till August. As a whole during a year 88 children had a rest and restored their health in Vorzel. Every evening joyful programmes, scenes, evenings with bonfires and various interesting competitions are organized for children. Also students from the Seminary with pleasure help mentors, who accompany children.
Berdiansk (Zaporizhzhya region).
The “Quo vadis” Caritas-Spes-Berdiansk center receives 254 children for recreation during a year.
Berdiansk is situated on Azov Sea coast. Maritime climate, steppe air, curative mud, health-giving mineral water – all these factors are combined in Berdiansk. Thanks to this, children, who rest in this camp, have a chance to swim every day in the warm sea (so-called Berdiansk spit), reasonably become sunburnt and have a sunbath under the shade. Also sisters who work in this camp and local priests organize cultural part of the rest and also are responsible for spiritual growth of children.
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The family-type homes for orphans.
The Caritas-Spes center organizes and leads family-type homes for children. Orphans and children who don’t have parents’
care permanently live there.
Children are educated by sisters-nuns and specialy grounded educators. Children live in such homes till their full
age, go to secondary school, go to kindergartens, receive good education. But the most important thing is that they
receive love which they didn’t have even when they had parents.
In December 2006 Caritas-Spes received a new solid partner in the project Family homes.
It is an Austrian non-profit organization Kleine Herzen or Little Hearts in English with Pascale Vayer
as its founder and leader. The main goal of Kleine Herzen is to support the children from economically
weak countries and especially those from the former Soviet Union. In Ukraine Kleine Herzen develops
a network of adoption-at- distance, a program of individual help for orphans and supports Family Homes.
Kleine Herzen takes care of already 6 Family Homes in Ukraine.
The House of St. Joseph for orphans in Kyiv. It began its work in the summer of 2001 and is fitted for 12 children.
8 children of the age from 5 to 14 live in it now. We plan to receive more children to this house in the future.
The state status is expected to be given to it at the beginning of 2006.
The house of Mary in Zhytomyr was opened in 2003. 8 children of the age from 1,5 to 14 are educated there.
The children are looked after by the educators.
The House of Saint Joseph in Zhytomyr. It was opened in the autumn of 2004.Today there are 7 orphans
of the age from 1,5 to 15 there. The children taken care of by the educators.
The family-type home in Jarmolynci (Khmelnycki region)was built in 2002. It received the state status
FTHFCH in 2005. 8 children of the age from 5 to 8 years are educated there. Five children go to school
and three go to kindergarten.
The FTHFCH of “The Burger’s family”(it was renamed from “Philip Neri”) works in Mukachevo – 10 children
of the age from 1 to 13 years old (2 of them are their own children and 8 others were taken to the family).
7 children go to school. A young couple takes for them the place of parents and educators.
The house was established in 2002. During this time it has been financed with the help of contributions
from Australia, the “Vira” fund in Zakarpathia (Hungary), the fund of the Franciscan Mission in Zakarpathia (Hungary).
A few families from Hungary also give their assistance. State assistance is being expected since 2006.
The FTHFCH of “St. Havryil” works in Velyki Bereznui (11 children) and the FTHFCH of “The Queen of Peace” (7 children).
In the first house the manager of the local Caritas center is the mother and educator at the same time
and a sister-nun from Slovakia works as an educator in the other house. The first house was established in 2000
and the second a little later. They are financed by the Caritas-Czechia.
The FTHFCH of “St. Francisc” in Khust has 13 children. A middle-aged couple look after them
(among these children 5 are their own). This house is financed by small sponsors including one Swiss parish,
the French charitable fund, the fund of the Franciscan Mission in Zakarpathia and is supported by the families
from Hungary
The FTHFCH works in Chernigiv. The sisters Nazarytanky look after it. 4 children permanently live in it.
The Caritas-Spes give assistance to the two family-type homes for children in Lviv region:
Bibrka. The sisters Francishkanky lead the family-type home. 9 children live there.
Sambir. The sisters from Mary’s family look after the orphans in the children’s home. 4 children live in it.
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Kindergartens.
General economic crisis in the country has totally negativ influence over children. Almost always parents take
their children under school age to kindergartens. But now according to the economic crisis the government
doesn’t allocate enough money for maintenance of kindergartens. That’s why most of them are in bad financial state.
One of the ways of solving this problem is taking over the patronage the own kindregartens of the Caritas
and the kindergartens in the cities where the Caritas-Spes centers work. Education in these kindergartens
is held in the spirit of the religion. Such kindergartens are in much better conditions than the similar
state establishments throughout the country. Here is the list of the kindergartens that receive assistance
from the charitable mission Caritas-Spes.
Kindergartens at the “Quo Vadis” Caritas-Spes-Berdiansk center (Zaporizhia region).
Caritas-Spes Kindergarten in Dniprodzerzhynsk for the children from indignant families (Dnipropetrovsk region).
The Caritas-Spes-Mykachevo in Zakarpathia region has taken the patronage active care of
-Kobylecka Polana village (Rahiv district) 20 children;
-Veluki Bychkiv village (Rahiv district) 28 children;
-Solotvyno village (Tachivski district) 48 children;
-Bushtyno village (Tachivski district) 45 children;
-Koroleve village; (Vynogradivski district) 25 children;
-Franchykove village (Vynogradivski district) 25 children;
-Vynogradovo town 50 children;
-Klynove village (Vynogradivski district) 20 children.
The latter nursery school differs from others because it is a state foundations where the salary and public
utilities are financed by the government. Caritas is responsible for the food. With the help of the manager
of the nursery school and the head of the village the nursery school works in the spirit of Catholic conditions.
The Caritas supports all the mentioned nursery schools mainly with the help of the Fund of the Franciscan Mission
in Zakarpathia and Franziskaner für Mittel und Osteuropa, Wien.
A kindergarten and orphanage for 30 persons by Sisters of St. Joseph (Striy, Lviv region) is being built.
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Such centers for children and orphanages were organized with the help of the Caritas-Spes:
A social project “Children know – children can” works in Mykolajiv.
With the purpose of the social adaptation and increase of knowledge level of children from poor Romany families (a. 20 children) from the settlement Yalta that is near Mykolajiv, excursions, role games, organizing of the social useful actions, leisure organizing and encouraging to social useful work are conducted.
Also during the project realizing it is planned to conduct educational talks with children on topics: life and health protection, Christian morality, children rights, delinquencies preventive measures, HIV/AIDS, outward things, and family and marriage.
A center for “children of the street” is organized in Kharkiv(meetings are held, rooms for plays, rooms for studies,
opportunities to have a shower and wash the clothes, the work on prophylactic from toxicomania and children’s prostitution
is being held).80 children come here. A circle works for them, toys are made and sold. Money from this project
are directed at the assistance for sick children in Kharkiv. In the summer of 2005 a recreation for 70 children
who had come to the “Center for children was organized”.
“Center for children at the Kyivan Social-Pastoral center of Joan Paul ²²”. 15 children come to the center every day.
Chatechesis, games and various entertainments are held for the children from indignant families. Children can do their home task.
We organize tea with sweets for them. Last year in July children from the families which have problems had
an opportunity to go to the Carpathian with the educators from the Center. On 31 August children were invited after their holidays.
Some presents were prepared for them. On 6 May children made a performance about St. Nicolas. After that all of them received presents.
There were 20 children there.
We hold an action “Christmas presents”. Christmas presents are given to the children
who visit “Center for children” at the social center.
There is a Center for children in the “Quo vadis” Caritas-Spes-Berdiansk center (Berdiansk, Zaporizhia region).
The main sphere of activity of the Kamianec-Podilskyi Caritas-Spes center is care and education of the youth.
The charitable foundation “Center for children” for the children from the families with any pathologies
(these children lived in the streets), children from the families which have problems and families with many children,
single parent families and unfortunate people has been working for 4 years. Today 25 children come
to the “Center for children” . Every day except from Saturday and Sunday from 1 p.m. children do their homework
in the nice home atmosphere which is created to them by the sisters-nuns. After that children have their
dinner and then follow other entertainments.
Building of the bishop Jan Olshanskyi Center of Mercy was begun in the spring of 2004. The “Center for children”,
a free dining-room and a hostel for the poor students will be working there. The Center of Mercy is situated
not far from the Cathedral in Kamianec-Podilskyi.
The Sisters Urshulanky lead the “Center for children” of the Christian education - 28 children from 3 to 6 years old
and 30 children from 7 to15 years old. (Kolomyja)
The Sisters Felicianky work in the “Center for children” for children from 4 to 6 years old (25children,
Zabolotiv town).
In Lviv Franciskan Fathers have organized the “Center for children” for children in the school #24.
There are also free dinners for 35 children.
The “Center for children” for children in Kherson. It is visited by 30 children.
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Reconstruction of the children camps.
Now the new sleeping building that has three storeys instead of the old with only one storey is being built.
The new building is designed for 80 children. The heating system is planned to be started in the health center.
So recreation and restoration of children’s health could be held during the whole year.
Construction of the new building is coming to an end: we only have to assemble a part of electrofittings,
assemble sanitary engineering equipment and to furnish children’s lounges. Heating is also planned to be started
in the kitchen-dining-room. For this purpose a boiler room should be refited. Two new boilers should be bought
and connected up with the heating system of the camp. Gas pipeline is being laid on to the camp in order to convert
the heating systeme in the health camp into the natural gas.
Total reconstruction of wooden houses for children is being held in the camp. Foundation is being produced
and the walls are being underwalled in order to make the houses higher and more spacious. After that the
old houses are being displaced on the brickwork with the help of the special accessory equipment.
Upholstery of the houses is being changed both on outside and on the inside. Roofs and floors are
also being completely changed. Reconstructed houses will not deteriorate so quickly because their
wooden construction is already raised from the ground and protected from the influence of the moisture.
The renewed outward look of the houses will make children’s recreation more pleasant. At the moment
three wooden houses have been already reconstructed, the others are next in turn; on the whole there are
20 such houses in the camp.
Everyone who is interested in the project of reconstruction of the health centers for children’s
recreation can join the cause of assistance to children. We need money for futher reconstruction
of the health centers in order to continue our building. The Caritas-Spes organization will be
grateful for any assistance. Your money will be directed only on the assistance to the children
to improve the conditions of their recreation.
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Work of such charitable dining rooms was organized with the help of the Caritas-Spes:
There is a dining-room for children in Kharkiv. 20-30 homeless children receive hot dinners five times a week.
There is also a dining room for homeless people in Kharkiv. 70 persons get hot dinners three times a week.
There is a travelling kitchen in Berdiansk, Zaporizhia region. It works once a week. The workers of the Caritas
cook and dish out 300-350 litres of soup at once.
The brothers-albertynci who opened a dining-room the “Nice Bread” are now in Zaporizhia with their mission.
They give hot dinners four times a week. The volunteers from Caritas help them to dish out soup and tea and
to wash up the dishes. About 200-250 persons come to the dining-room every day.
There is a dining-room and the home delivery of dinners center for elderly people in Berdychiv. Two workers
and four volunteers work in this dining-room. We use a café as a room for our dining-room.
It was kindly given to the Caritas-Spes center by the owner of this establishment. 62 people receive hot dinners,
for most of them it’s the only opportunity to eat a hot dish once a day. Among them there are 28 elderly people,
6 orphans, 4 retarded persons, 8 invalids and 16 poor persons.
Free dining-rooms are organized with the help of the Caritas-Spes-Mukachevo:
-Mukachevo – 65-75 dinners a day, half of them are delivered at people’s homes. 19 volunteers and 2 workers work here;
-Vynogradovo – 200 dinners a day;
-Tachevo – 105 dinners;
-Uzhgorod – 130 dinners (twice a week);
-Svalava – 10 dinners;
-There is a dining-room for poor children in the secondary school in Kobylecka Polana. 15 children get hot dinners.
Dinners for the poor for 15 persons are held in the parish in Lviv.
Relief for poor and infirm inhabitants of Lviv: dispensation of bread for 40 persons twice a week.
Charitable kitchen in Bar, Vinnytsia region, serves daily 40 persons (invalids who do not work, lonely elderly people,
poor people and orphans). Volunteers and the workers of the territorial center of social service deliver considerable part
of dinners home to the invalids and lonely elderly people who have problems with moving. Except from dinners
the needy receive humanitarian aid and volunteers take care of the patients.
The project is realized with the help of the Roman Catholic parish of St. Anna, the central Caritas-Spes office,
the local companies and the territorial center of social service.
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Medical care.
Charitable mission Caritas-Spes has organized and now leads medical care: from giving free medicine to creation
of the centers of rehabilitation. Here is the discription of the activity of the Caritas-Spes regional centers
in this direction:
There is a surgery in Berdiansk. A therapeutist receives patients twice a week on Wednesday and Friday.
People are consulted. We help with medicine as far as possible and send patients
to the doctors – specialists who work with us. Nearly 800 persons irrespective of their faith get
the medical assistance in this surgery during a year.
Now we work in order to create the complex of specialized surgeries in the rooms of the “Quo vadis”
Center of Mercy to make our medical care for the poor more professional and to make a doctor – specialist
closer to those people who are in need.
Medical assistance is given to those who are in needin Zaporizhia.
A surgery is opened and patients are received twice a week. On the whole the surgery is visited by homeless people,
families which have many children and lonely pensioners i.e. those people for whom the official
medical assistance is practically inaccessible. Parishioners and other people can also get medical
aid if they ask us about it. On the average 20 patients are received every day. So 40 patients are
received on Sundays and about 160 patients are received during a month. On the average medical
assistance and medical aid is given in the surgery to more than 1900 persons. The three pensioners
also received assistance from the Caritas-Spes-Zaporizhia for hospitalization by individual projects.
The Caritas-Spes-Zaporizhia provides medical aid during the annual pilgrimage “Melitopol – Zaporizhia”.
On the whole 150 persons took part in it in 2005 year.
Drogobych.Works the hospital rank of St. Jan Bonifratra. F. Brunon Mary Neuman OH is the leader of it.
Three nuns and two workerswork here. There is a room (400 square meters) at our disposal and now
we are planning to buy one more room for charitable activity.There is a chemist’s shop.
Free dispensation of medicineis held. Operations for 6 citizens of Poland have been made with
the help of the Caritas-Drogobych.
Aid post in Berdychiv. Here work 1 collaborator and 2 volunteers. There are surgery hours and visiting
of bed-patients’ homes once a month. The sick are provided with medicine as far as possible.
There are 121 patients. All mentioned patients have been under the doctor’s care during the year.
A room for the first aid post was given by the local parish. Major repairs were done there.
One room is a store of medicine and other items of welfare for those who are in need.
Another room is fitted for receiving of patients: it is warm, gets enough light, has running water
and all necessary equipment.
On October 2005 a group of 6 disabled persons took a course of treatment and rehabilitation in
Opole (Poland) with the help of the parochial Caritas-Spes center in Kamianec-Podilskyi. 2 persons from
this group went to Opole once more in December 2005.
Rehabilitation centers (Zacarpathia region).
There is the house of St. Teresa for children-invalids in Vynogradovo. Here we provide the conditions
for recovery of health, social adaptation, professional orientation of the children who have problems
with internal organs and systems or with psychophysical development. Annually nearly 80 children-invalids
get relief in this center. A minibus was bought a few years ago (with the help of the central Caritas- Spes center)
in order to take children to the center. Now the government helps to bye fuel for this minibus.
The center gets assistance from the Fund of the Franciscan Mission in Zakarpathia and Franziskaner für
Mittel und Osteuropa, Wien.
Khyst: building of the new rehabilitation center will be finished in May 2006. It will be different
from the Vynogradovo center because children will be here during the whole week and will come home
only at the end of the week. The center is planned to be opened in September or in October 2006.
In Kharkiv first medical aid for those who are in need is given three times a week. 70 adults
and 25 children are constantly taken care of. Assistance is also given to 45 tubercular children,
assistance for blind people, sclerotic patients and paralytics. Physical procedures for blind people are held.
Assistance with medical equipment for the sick and those people who are in need. In Khmelnycki 25 invalid
carts were given without payment for temporary use.
In Kherson sisters-nuns visit sick people in hospials and help them with medicine.
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Humanitarian aid.
Dispensation of humanitarian aid for those who are in need. The aid is given for 150-200 persons during a
year(Burtyn village, Khmelnycki region).
The parochial center Caritas in Kamianec-Podilskyi gives medicine and clothes as the humanitarian aid.
Visitors are received to the social center in Kyiv daily from 9 a.m. till 5 p.m. except from weekends.
Concrete and necessary humanitarian aid is given. On the whole 3000 persons visit it during a year.
Dispensation of humanitarian aid for those who are in need is held in Lubar, Zhytomyr region).
There is also distribution of humanitarian aid for charitable foundations and Roman Catholic parish all
over Ukraine: two family-type homes, the center of children’s treatment “Nadiya” in Zarichany, the Higher
Theological College in Vorzel, Kyiv region, a convent of the Sisters of St. Benedict in Zhytomyr, 10 parishes,
4 Caritas centers, 16 charitable foundations, schools, hospitals and other organizations are served.
As a whole 35 organizations and foundations.
In Malyn hymanitarian aid is given to those who are in need.
Perechyn. Dispensation of humanitarian aid: food, medicine, clothes. Dispensation is held twice a month and
10-15 persons receive it.
In Lutsk humanitarian aid was given to 800 persons during 2005. There was also dispensation of humanitarian
aid for 75 charitable foundations.
Dispensation of humanitarian aid is also held in Kharkiv. Humanitarian aid is given to those
who are in need and to the families that have many children.
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Houses of mercy for elderly peoples.
How to make people feel happy in their old age? Family relations are very important for the elderly person.
They give a feeling of protection and necessity to this world bringing gladness, unpleasantness and troubles to the pensioner.
First of all they want to share their experience. But to their high regret it doesn’t interest anybody.
In our modern society a social role of elderly people seems to be “crossed out from the scenario”.
That’s why elderly people can’t take part in the life of the youth – their experience including human
intercourse has become out of date. And the most unpleasant thing is that nobody wants to listen to an old person.
But considering all their experience a lot of elderly people are almost helpless. Sometimes they can’t even
take care of themselves. Experts consider that elderly people don’t need much for quiet and good life.
They only need to have their own dwelling (even if it’s a separate room), connection with the world around
and meetings and contacts with relatives and neighbours. There was organized work of two houses for
elderly people under the guidance of the Caritas-Spes. The workers of Caritas take care of the inhabitants
of these houses. Apart from elderly people disabled people also live there.
The House of Mercy for lonely, disabled and sick people is attached to the Caritas-Spes-Gorodok Center.
They are mainly elderly people. The House was build with the help of f. Vladyslav Vanagsa MIC.
One more house was build later with the help of the western charitable foundations: the Caritas Poland,
Renovabis, Kirche in Not. Building of the house for elderly people in Gorodok was finished in 2000.
43 persons live today in the House of Mercy. All people who live in this house have constant care,
daily medical examination and eat three times a day. There is a chapel in which Holy Service is performed;
all inhabitants approach to the Sacrament of Confession on every first Friday of the month.
The sisters-nuns from the Society of Sisters-Maids of Pure Mary who came from Dembice (Poland)
have been working in the House of Mercy since 2002. The staff of the House consists of 6 nurses,
5 kitchen workers, hospital nurse, drivers, accountant, economy manager, laundress, joiner and baker.
There is no need to look for people to live in this house because there are many persons who desire to live here.
The lonely people who don’t have any care are taken first of all. Everybody who live here have provided care till death,
these people are fed, taken care of, treated and buried after their death. There is a center of dispensation
of humanitarian aid for indigent people. There is a rest-room in the House of Mercy. So everyone can come here
to have a chat and a nice time and to watch TV. Thanks to the well-equipped kitchen dispensation of free
hot dinners for the pensioners from Gorodok who don’t live in our house and free dinners for the orphans and
children from indigent families is possible.
There is St. Elizabeth’s House of Mercy in the Oleksandrivka village, Zhytomyr region.
There are 10 elderly people in the House of Mercy (the oldest resident is 89 years old). The average age is
60-70 years. Two sisters of mercy serve these people. There is a dining-room in the “Oleksandrivka” center.
Here work kitchen workers who cook for the residents of this house.
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Care for elderly people.
The main problem that faces elderly people – is isolation from society. It is expressed by loneliness of such people,
they have nobody to take care of them, to help them by household and to bye food. Fost of them suffer from
the lack of the usual human communication. That is why the help of volunteers, social workers and nurses who
visit them is so necessary for these people. According to the people’s references they need it very much.
So one of he womens said that she got so accustomed to the Caritas workers that would like even to change her
dwelling in order to live nearer to the Center where the Caritas volunteers work.
With the help of the local centers Caritas-Spes takes care of lonely and sick elderly people, visiting their homes:
Realization of the project “Home visiting of lonely people” was begun in September 2005. We have a group of
30 lonely persons. 5 volunteers take care of them and the sister-nun who has a nurse certificate leads the volunteers.
The Social-Pastor center of Joan Pawlo II (Kyiv). Homes of 50 persons are visited. During last year we gave
assistance (clothes, footwear, medicine and service of hairdressers, barber and jurist) to nearly 3 thousand of people.
Home visiting of sick and lonely people (in Berdychiv). 2 workers of the Caritas-Spes-Berdychiv center
and 4 volunteers are involved in execution of this project. 35 persons received the assistance in 2005 year.
Among them there are 23 lonely and sick elderly people, 7 persons who have relatives but all in all are seriously ill,
5 persons are seriously ill and bed-ridden. These people get food, help with room cleaning and with food and medicine buying.
The project: “Home visiting” works in Drogobych (Lviv region). 30 elderly persons who need outside assistance are served.
Realization of the project “Home visiting” was begun in October 2005. The project provides care for 40 lonely
elderly people and handicapped persons. Some persons need a special care.
In Sambir the Sisters of Mary’s family take care of sick and lonely people. All in all 150 persons are taken care of.
In Kolomyia the Sisters Urshulanky take care of sick – dispence medicine and clothes.
In Kosiv the Sisters Felicianky come to the assistance of sick and lonely people and help children in the children’s resthouse.
In Yavoriv the Sisters of St. Dorota succour the sick at home.
Home visiting of sick people in Odesa. 40 elderly people are taken care of.
In Kharkiv homes of 30 lonely elderly people are visited.
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Social assistance.
The project “Children invalids” has been working in Bar town. It provides constant care for 50 persons from 7 to 17 years old.
The project works since 2000 year. Regular meetings “In the Circle of Friends”, chess and draughts tournaments,
film review, puppet play, organization of excursions, home visiting of the children who have problems with moving,
dispensation of humanitarian aid – here are the main trends of work in the framework of this project. Volunteers,
methodologists and members of the “Mercy” circle of the center of extra-scholastic work with children and teenagers
of the district education department, RKP of St. Anna help us to realize this project.
There is a social office in Kharkiv. On the average 15 persons have consultations there during a day.
The office works five times a week.
Social services work with the help of the Kyiv social center for the people who are taken care of.
1300 visits have been made during 2005 year (food and cloths delivery, tiding up of homes and visiting
of patients in the hospital). There is a laundry at the social center. People who come to the center are served here.
Visitors can also take a shower. We can give humanitarian aid by post. Delivery of humanitarian aid to other cities
of Ukraine is also possible due to the applications of those who are in need.
A center of social assistance in Stryi has already begun its activity. 5 workers work there.
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Local projects.
Depending on geographical location of each separate Caritas center arises
the necessity of realization of specific kinds of projects that will solve the problems of just that region.
Drogobych. Social and legal assistance for refugees is provided.
During 2005 year 34 persons appealed to the Center office in Kyiv for help and got it, 21 of them got pecuniary aid.
Induvidual assistance for treatment of a few persons is given periodically in Berdiansk.
Small enterprises.
We are aimed at creation of small enterprises and establishments which can give assistance.
This will give an opportunity to create new working places and provide with work all people who are in need.
Apart from this, a aprt of profits from this activity will be directed to the Caritas activity.
For example, a joiner’s shop is working in Khmelnycki. A father of the family which has eight children has received
a machine for production of wire-net. Baking of bread-stuffs was begun in Orativ. We are looking for
an opportunity to create such bakery in Gvardiiske and to buy a combine and other agricultural equipment for farmers.
We also help people to get necessary knowledge and experience in order to run their own business: training
for bakers and people who carry on greenhouse farm was organized in Poland.
A bakery in Seredne (Zacarpathian region) works. 20 breads are brought every day to the free dining-room in Mukachevo.
Sisters-nuns also take care of the poor in Seredne bringing and giving out bread from this bakery.
The other batch are offered for sale.
A room of the former bath-house with the total area of 292 square metres was bought in Orativ (Khmelnycki region).
The room is being rebuild and re-equipped into a bakery. Baking of bread has already begun. A baking machine was taken on credit.
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