Helping to support internally displaced persons in a church youth centre
The war in Ukraine has prompted the greatest wave of refugees since the Second World War. In total, almost 15 million people have been forced to flee—around seven million of these within their own country. Many have found shelter in Church-run facilities.
Currently, 98 women and children have been housed in the Catholic Pidlyte Youth Centre in Ivano-Frankivsk, in Western Ukraine. Archbishop Volodymyr Viytyshyn has written to ask for our help. “The worst thing,” he writes, “is that the people we are sheltering here have nowhere to return home to, since their houses and cities have been destroyed and bombed out. We as the Church are responsible for the people we have given shelter to. We want to save these people from going hungry and provide them with a decent place to stay, but our financial resources are exhausted and now we are looking for help. And so we are turning to you. We are praying to Almighty God for you and for all the benefactors He has brought into our lives. May God bless you all!”
We are proposing to give $34,500 to help the local Church, so that these 98 IDPs can be cared for properly in their new home. Will you help us to bring them hope?
