Catholic Outreach to Ukraine Charity Mission

WE NEED YOUR HELP.

From Father Pavlo Khomiak in Lutsk:

“this year the Kitchen for the Needy has generated an extremely high demand among the public. Due to the difficult financial situation and the large number of new immigrants, people massively stood in huge queues to get their share of food. It is incredibly difficult to realize how many people in need are in difficult circumstances. Unfortunately, we still live in conditions with constant power outages, people are losing their jobs en masse, and people who have managed to escape from the war zone have no financial means to live on. On some days, the number of needy people who were waiting for their portion of hot lunches reached the number of 800 people. Even massive air raids and planes circling overhead did not scare people who wanted one thing above all else – to eat. This is an extremely large number, and our modest kitchen space and equipment could not provide hot meals to such a large number of needy people. Therefore, for those who did not have enough hot lunches, we additionally issued food kits so that people could at least have something to eat. After three active months of work preparing meals for needy migrants, lonely elderly people, people who found themselves in difficult living conditions, our resources were exhausted, because the number of people was much larger than we expected.”

Many of the pictures below show the refugees braving the cold for the opportunity to receive a meal. Most of distribution occurs at the church in Lutsk but some needs are met by mobile distribution. Please help if you can. Here’s a link to our donation page:

https://ukraniancatholicoutreach.app.neoncrm.com/forms/9

Braving the winter for a chance at a hot meal

Outside the Lutsk church

Staff preparing meals for the masses at the Kitchen for the Needy

Winter has been bitter for our brothers and sisters in Lutsk

Mobile distribution

Winter 2023 Newsletter

March 16, 2023/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Greg Sullivan

Please see our latest newsletter featuring articles on refugee support in Lutsk and Myrgorod and the House of Hope (the Single Mothers Home). Click here for the full newsletter. Winter 2023 Newsletter

Love in the House of Hope

Refugees waiting for assistance outside the Lutsk church

February 16, 2023/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Greg Sullivan

Refugees and residents crowd new church in Mirgorod

February 15, 2023/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Greg Sullivan

The newly remodeled church in Mirgorod has become a gathering spot for Ukrainians in need of spiritual and subsistence support. Father Stanislav Tanatarov leads daily masses and leads the distribution of food and supplies after mass. These winter months are the hardest times for this community. Hot meals are scarce; shelter is limited; heat and power are often unavailable. CONU is doing its best to provide funding but is in dire need of more donations. Please pray for our brothers and sisters in Ukraine and help if you can. May God bless us all!

Packed attendance at mass

Waiting for distribution of food and supplies

Father Stan leads congregation at mass

God at Work

CONU (Catholic Outreach to Northern Ukraine) for 24 years has expressed the love of God in so many ways: repair and building of churches destroyed or destructively remodeled and used for Communist needs for more than 50 years; donated clothes and monies to orphanages, mental, physical and spiritual help in these post communist days. CONU in these past years have given prayer, time, money for buildings of prayer, for spiritual, emotional and physical care and education. In these more than 24 years, the personal giving and receiving of so many people have revealed God Our Father’s love, so well expressed in these many relationships brought together in these post communist times. Restoration of buildings and bodies helps rediscover dignity of the human person.

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Refugees and residents crowd new church in Mirgorod

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