Special aid for 144 nuns of the Archdiocese of Lviv during the war

UKRAINE / LVIV-LAT 22/00888
Special aid for 144 nuns of the Archdiocese of Lviv during the war: Packing humanitarian aid.
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Sisters of the Congregation of St. Joseph in Lviv wrote about the current situation:
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«On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a military attack on Ukraine and started the war.
Millions of people are forced to flee their homes in search of saving lives for themselves and their children. The mass of refugees left the eastern and southern regions of Ukraine for western Ukraine and abroad.
In the monastery in Lviv the Sisters of the Congregation of St. Joseph have set up an intermediate point where those people can eat, wash themselves and sleep. The sisters then look for vehicles to take families (especially mothers and children) abroad. The sisters are looking for families in Poland who can take in the refugees, as well as establishing contacts and the possibility of transporting humanitarian aid to them from abroad.
People slept in all possible corners of the monastery – on beds, and on mattresses on the floor. They were very grateful for the opportunity of having access to water, hot meals, and of getting some sleep. Some spent several days in basements or bomb shelters.
Similarly, in other monasteries of the Sisters of St. Joseph, we try to help refugees and local people who find themselves in a difficult situation due to the war.
In the town of Stryi (Lviv region), the sisters prepared a room for a family with two children and a grandmother. With the help of local and foreign benefactors they bought a washing machine, refrigerator, beds, etc. Everything you need for living. One of the children is a sick boy who needs special care and food.
The sisters in Stryi also receive refugees who travel abroad to Ukraine, deliver and pass on aid from abroad to those in need, and sew custom-made military vests and balaclavas for the army.»