Winter help Rovno and Lvov...

In our recent letters we have reported about poor Jewish children, which are in desperate situations especially during this winter. Each month we are supporting them with necessary vitamins, baby food and other nutritional products. They also have a very big problem with clothing and shoes, as they are too expensive to get. We have prayed in this matter and thanks also to your help we were able to intervene in the most critical cases.

Two people from Chevra have bought winter outwear, jackets, shoes and distributed them amongst children in western Ukraine. It was a great joy for us to see the happiness on their faces. They could never afford for such things and this winter was especially long and severe...

Basha makes an order, fixing the sizes and assortment...

...having in our minds faces of the kids who had nothing good to wear on, like this sister and brother, brought up only by their grandmother having only 18$ pension for all of them. They were so thankful and happy to receive new things...

Vladik, 7 years old, was born with children cerebral paralyse. His father got mental disease later and was put into the isolated hospital. Elena needs to take care alone for a boy needing special treatment every half or one year in the special children care centre in Donetsk. They had to leave the flat they had and now they live in a type of dormitory, having one small room with no kitchen and toilet.

Styepan is one of the 3 kids from the family which wants to leave for Israel but they have big problem as the father had no documents for several years (they were stolen in other town).They live in small room with no running water.. He was so proud to get his new jacket and shoes...

This family consisting of 5 children live with their parents in one room with kitchen, placed under the stairs in the old building. Father has only seasonal work and can't find a job to be able to feed his family. Children are very talented and skilled; the works of the oldest girl were taken to the exhibition in Warsaw, Poland...

Magdalene is putting on her new shoes checking if they will fit for her...

Magdalene's parents came to Ukraine 20 years ago from Kazakhstan in search for job. They worked in local great nitrate factory, until it bankrupted 3 years ago. Now both parents have no permanent job, having not enough to feed family, even having only 2 children...

These were only small examples of the children from the Jewish families in a great need. We pray that the finances allow us to prepare even small monthly support for such families.