As previously reported, the Lviv Agrarian Chamber is providing humanitarian aid as part of the UN World Food Programme’s Institutional Feeding Programme to people who are housed and fed free of charge in shelters and social institutions caring for internally displaced persons (IDPs) and particularly vulnerable groups.
Today’s report focuses on specific institutions receiving such aid. In particular, it concerns the Centre for Social Support for Orphans, Children Deprived of Parental Care and Internally Displaced Persons, who reside in the modular settlement in Sykhiv. The settlement is one of the largest in Lviv, where over 1,000 internally displaced persons live and are fed at any one time. The plot of land on which the temporary settlement is located was kindly provided by the Congregation of the Salesian Fathers of St John Bosco, UGCC. The church community has taken the settlement under its care and organises daily free hot meals for its residents, so the supply of food under the Institutional Catering Programme is an extremely valuable form of assistance for them.
Cooperation with the Centre for Social Support of Orphans, Children Deprived of Parental Care and Internally Displaced Persons, the Congregation of the Salesian Fathers of St John Bosco, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) and the Lviv Agrarian Chamber takes place under a memorandum, pursuant to which assistance is provided to the religious administration of the monasteries of the Salesian Congregation of the Eastern Rite in Ukraine (UGCC), which manages the necessary storage facilities and a mobile kitchen where the town’s residents are fed free of charge.
We hope that this cooperation will significantly improve the quality of food for the residents of the modular settlement, whose population consists mainly of mothers with children, elderly people, and people with disabilities who have survived the horrors of evacuation from areas of active hostilities, lost all their possessions, and are forced to adapt to life in new conditions.
Alongside this, the Agrarian Chamber, in partnership with the UN World Food Programme, is working with small organisations that support 25–30 people. One example is the NGO ‘Dream Workshop’, which helps people with mental health conditions to adapt to the realities of everyday life. ‘Dream Workshop’ develops their talents and teaches them to work. During sessions, people are surrounded by friends and peers and have the opportunity to socialise. Residents of ‘Dream Workshop’ develop life skills, engage in creative activities, go on excursions and receive free meals.
Despite the small number of residents, the NGO ‘Dream Workshop’ faces a constant need for resources and funds to support these people; therefore, humanitarian aid under the Institutional Catering Programme is of great importance and absolutely essential for them. Consequently, when implementing the Institutional Catering Programme, the Lviv Agrarian Chamber will pay particular attention to precisely those small institutions that are most in need of such assistance.
Source: Lviv Agrarian Chamber