One year has passed since the launch of the Emergency Food Assistance to the Affected Population of Ukraine project, supported by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Ukraine and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).
According to ADRA, 954,004 packages of basic foodstuffs; 1,967,102 packages of daily necessities; 322,234 kits of baby food; 20,151,880 loaves of bread; and 570,089 food vouchers were distributed to the population in Ukraine during this period.
The project covered 13 regions of Ukraine: Chernihiv, Sumy, Kiev, Dnipro, Kherson, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Cherkassy, Zaporizhzhya, Mykolaiv, Odessa, and Poltava. In 2023, ADRA Ukraine would continue to operate in five regions: Kharkiv, Donetsk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhya, and Mykolaiv. Food aid in these regions is vital, ADRA said, as people often have nothing to eat and may not have seen fresh bread in months. In addition to food packages, those in need would also receive bread, baby food and food vouchers.
Thanks to volunteer organizations in Ukraine
ADRA Ukraine highlighted, "We are very grateful to our partners, the volunteer organizations throughout Ukraine, who make it possible to carry out the aid, often at the risk of their own lives. Despite the existing danger, we are carrying out this difficult but important mission to provide food to those in need."
About ADRA
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) was founded in 1956 and carries out development cooperation and disaster humanitarian aid projects worldwide. ADRA is a non-governmental relief organization and is sponsored by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. ADRA International consists of a worldwide network with more than 130 independent national offices and about 7,500 full-time employees. ADRA Ukraine was officially registered by the state on February 21, 1993, and has been active in the country ever since.
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