Since in 2025 the Institutional Nutrition Program will be more oriented towards helping IDPs, the Lviv Agrarian Chamber is working to cover a larger number of compact residences for internally displaced persons that meet the Program’s criteria.
Mandatory requirements for stipends are the presence of a kitchen, storage space and provision of hot meals to residents. However, in the majority of shelters in Lviv Oblast, IDPs feed themselves, so they are not involved in the Program. The Lviv Agrarian Chamber cooperates with these institutions so that they can establish centralized nutrition for residents and become participants in the Institutional Nutrition Program.
One such shelter, which set up a hot meal, received food for the first time in February. This is the House of Children’s and Youth Creativity in the city of Sosnivka, which was visited on February 20 by the monitoring and protection officer of the National Security Agency, Davyd Kravchenko. ,
The director of the House of Children and Youth Creativity Stepan Sluka said that the shelter has been functioning since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. From 100 to 150 people live here permanently. People mainly from temporarily occupied territories, families with children, elderly people, disabled people.
“There are currently 95 people in the shelter. If at the beginning of the war the residents received a lot of humanitarian aid, there were many donors, but now it is practically non-existent. Help from the Lviv Agrarian Chamber is the only support that our wards can count on today,” said Stepan Sluka.
Deputy director Iryna Matkovska demonstrated the kitchen, dining room, and warehouse, talked about the internal organization of the shelter.
Davyd Kravchenko emphasized that there should be clear control over the use of products, he spoke about storage requirements. “This facility is a vivid example of extending support to people who need help by creating a comfortable environment for their accommodation and food,” David Kravchenko noted.
> restorative treatment No. 3″ and BO BT “Caritas Sosnivka”. All these institutions have been participants in the Institutional Nutrition Program for over a year.
Zhovkivska Hospital reported that during 2024, thanks to participation in the Program, they saved almost 200,000 hryvnias, which made it possible to purchase such necessary products as meat, fish and vegetables, thereby significantly improving the diet patients.
130 elderly people are cared for in the Velikomostiv Geriatric Boarding House. Of them, 13 are IDPs. Since the beginning of participation in the Institutional Nutrition Program, the institution has purchased an electric bread maker and bakes bread, pies and buns from the flour obtained, which significantly improves the diet of residents. According to the director of the institution, Igor Demkiv, own baking contributes not only to the variety of the menu, but also to the creation of a warm and cozy atmosphere for lonely elderly people.
Quite creatively approached the use of flour at the Lviv Regional Rehabilitation Hospital No. 3. Diet pizza is on the menu there. According to the hospital’s management, the funds saved thanks to participation in the Program are used for the purchase of detergents and disinfectants, which allows maintaining high standards of cleanliness and safety in the hospital. height=”880″>
Head of the Caritas Sosnivka Foundation Pavlo Savchuk emphasized that the humanitarian aid provided under the Institutional Nutrition Program is the basis for organizing hot meals for 50 wards.
“Without this help, we simply would not be able to provide food to those in need. The obtained products are the basis for the daily menu, and we are sincerely glad that this year we have the opportunity to continue such an important cooperation for us, the result of which is the support of the local community, the improvement of the level of social protection of those in need in the conditions of war”, – emphasized Pavlo Savchuk. 