In cooperation with local farmers, Italian benefactors handed over food kits for IDPs in the region. The shelter project at the Evangelical Christian-Baptist Church “Disciples of Jesus Christ” was launched.
Today, March 22, the Lviv Agrarian Chamber, with the support of the Italian Social Cooperative Pausa Café, handed over food kits purchased from local producers from the Lviv Region to shelter forcibly displaced persons. It is about jams, juices, apples, honey, cookies, hard cheese, chicken eggs, meat and sausage products.
The project started with a shelter at the Evangelical Christian-Baptist Church “Disciples of Jesus Christ”, where about 50 forced migrants currently live. These products will be enough for them for two weeks. Sets will be delivered twice a month. In addition to this shelter, the Lviv Agrarian Chamber will purchase goods for five more shelters from local farmers. In general, the project aims to provide humanitarian assistance to about 500 IDPs.
“We take care of the comfortable living of all people who, due to Russian aggression, were forced to leave their homes and evacuate to safer regions. For many, Lviv Oblast became a place of refuge. We want people to feel at home here, to know that they are being thought of and cared for. It is these feelings that distinguish us from our enemy. I would like to thank the Italian friends who, together with the Lviv Agrarian Chamber, launched a wonderful initiative to support local agricultural producers who, due to the full-scale war, cannot fully sell their products and provide the displaced people with high-quality organic food products,” noted the head of the region, Maksym Kozytskyi.
The planned budget for the purchase of products is more than 200,000 euros.
“The team of our volunteers consists of people who have been in Lviv Oblast since 2014. Therefore, we know firsthand what it feels like for people who have essentially lost everything. We started settling people at the beginning of the full-scale war. It was difficult, because due to the large number of IDPs, we lacked room and household items. Later, we remodeled the shelter, added another floor, created separate rooms, a kitchen, showers, and bought furniture. Currently, the construction of two more floors is underway, which will allow us to accommodate an additional 50 people. We are also opening a psychological office,” said the head of the shelter Olena.
In total, since February 24, about 5,000 IDPs have been living in the shelter at the Evangelical Christian-Baptist Church “Disciples of Jesus Christ”. As of today, people from the temporarily occupied territories live here: Luhansk region, Donetsk region, Kherson region.
