OUR STRENGTH

We met Anna this summer in a refugee camp in western Ukraine, accompanied by her daughter and her 2 grandchildren. Alexis and I found that Anna was doing less and less well physically. Alexis at big heart that accompanied me for many months in Poland and Ukraine, learning Ukrainian, it was quite natural to approach her to learn more about her health. Upon learning that she was suffering from cancer in phase 4 and without care since his displacement due to this war. We are naturally informed in which country we could help her, accompany her to regain control of her health and care for herself. Alexis decided to accompany her to Ireland to make her administrative request and entry directly into a hospital to resume all the exams to take control of his health. Alexis' parents were keen to offer plane tickets. I am sincerely proud to have met Alexis because he is a young person with a big heart. He helped me a lot on the field and is really very close to the Ukrainians. He really understood why we are here. Alexis helped the Ukrainians enormously by finding financial donors allowing us to buy a lot of food in Ukraine. This young person did not hesitate to resign from his very well paid job to come back and help those who are suffering. I would like to point out that Alexis at only 26 years old. Sincere respect man despite that good........

My name is Hanna. I come from the Ukrainian city of Zaporozhye.

War in Ukraine. You know that there is humanitarian aid for all those who suffered from the war between Ukraine and Russia. But this humanitarian aid is only provided to refugees and internally displaced people. And if my house is in order and not destroyed, then they don't give me humanitarian aid. There are no jobs in my town. The state doesn't help.

My mother lives with me, she is 83 years old and has a very small pension. Mom and I haven't eaten delicious food for a long time. Many stores are closed and those that are open have very high prices.

Please help us! Food aid and humanitarian aid! Help with money! "

Here is an example of messages we receive on our WhatsApp and website.

It was something truly special that none of us were going to forget anytime soon.

We went with three vans full of food to the recently liberated territories between Mykolaiv and Kherson. The car ride was strange and surreal. Kilometers of trenches lined up along the bombed roads. We saw the burrows and hiding places where the soldiers lived for months and months. The roads were either dirt and mud or had bomb holes every two meters.

We passed building after building and vehicle after vehicle which were completely destroyed. Some smaller villages and towns were completely deserted. Tanks and cannons lined the countryside. We saw abandoned armored vehicles bearing the famous and fearsome Russian “Z”.

We saw children. We thought not, but we did it. There were still young families, teenagers huddled together near a bus stop in a local town and a young boy waving and others present in this recently liberated region of Ukraine, but completely devastated. It was heartbreaking to see.

We finally arrived in a small rural village. He had been busy for eight months.

We were really hoping to help a place that was desperate and really needed our help. Sometimes the same places receive the majority of aid; whether by geographical location, by prestige or sometimes even by luck. Other places, more difficult to access, more cut off from the rest of the country, receive nothing and really have nothing.

There was an old lady in the middle of the main street (one of three in town) and we talked to her. We told him we had food and other treats. She jumped for joy and took out her phone to call her other friends and residents.

They came. Everyone came. About 150 villagers stayed and waited in line for more than three hours to get whatever they could. We had flour, chocolate, canned vegetables, canned meat and fish, pasta, rice, tea and cooking oil. We had pre-organized buckets full of various items to really pamper them.

One of the old ladies came to us crying. She described how terrible the occupation was. These people have suffered and continue to suffer hardships that we can barely imagine. But they were amazing and brilliant. The soul and kindness in their faces and the joy they gave us in a few hours was remarkable. They are special people, tough and resilient.

We really saw the importance of our mission here. A place like this village, and other liberated and soon-to-be-liberated territories, really has nothing. They receive no help and the supply chain for normal life has been completely cut off.

Words cannot describe the fate of these brave people. Help us continue.

They must not be forgotten.

A huge thank you to our Polish baker who made us 200 good loaves of bread which will be distributed in a small liberated village where the inhabitants no longer have anything to eat.

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Lerzek, our baker, always responded positively to our requests even at the last minute despite the quantity requested.

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If you are considering making a financial donation to help these families have enough to eat:www.hopeeurope.com

There is no small donation, every donation is very important.

Thanks in advance for them...

Delivery of 60 medical beds in very good condition with their mattresses as well as many wheelchairs and medical equipment to Kharkiv for several hospitals in the region.

A complete 100% medical semi-trailer.

A big thank you to the French donor associations, to Anya who helped us enormously with the Polish administrative files and to our contact Valérie on site for good distribution.