Mons. Pascal Gollnisch assures support for internally displaced persons in Kropyvnytskyi

He was accompanied by Jean-Michel Coulot, personal secretary, Fr Lyubomyr Yavorskyy, Patriarchal Econom of the UGCC, and Fr Volodymyr Malchyn, Head of the Fundraising Department of the Patriarchal Curia.

Mons. Pascal Gollnisch assured that the people of France stand with the people of Ukraine. They are sincerely trying to help Ukrainians who suffer from an unjust war as much as possible. He came to Ukraine at the invitation of His Beatitude Sviatoslav to personally deliver humanitarian aid in the form of food packages, which the Patriarchal Foundation Mudra Sprava produced with the kind support of l’Œuvre d’Orient.

After meeting with internally displaced persons, the guests had the opportunity to get acquainted with the activities of СO “Caritas Kropyvnytskyi” and visited the Good Samaritan point of invincibility, established with the support of the Patriarchal Foundation Mudra Sprava in February 2023. The visitors visited a centre providing humanitarian aid, such as clothing, footwear and bed linen, to the IDPs. Father Ivan Tretiak, the parish priest, noted that volunteers also make trench candles at this point, which are sent to our soldiers at the front lines.

Since the beginning of the large-scale war on February 24, 2022, “l’Œuvre d’Orient” has shown its solidarity with the Ukrainian people by developing its humanitarian mission.

On the eve of Christmas 2023, in response to the electricity shortage, the association’s employees delivered 42 generators to Ukraine to help cope with the cold and power outages. The generators were distributed to Greek Catholic parishes and families in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Chernivtsi.

Earlier, the association sent ambulances and several hundred tons of necessities to Ukraine. Benefactors work directly with families or communities affected by the war, connecting them with French communities to create a network of solidarity.

To analyse the needs of internally displaced Ukrainians and respond to the challenges in a broader way, the staff of “l’Œuvre d’Orient” has travelled to Ukraine several times on humanitarian missions, including the head of the foundation, Monsignor Pascal Gollnisch.