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    UKRAINE

    Gondviselés Team November 2024
    Gondviselés Team November 2024

    2025 Update: Aid for Displaced Ukrainians

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    By Zsófia Sztranyiczki, ICUUW Executive Director
    20 March 2025

    From the onset of the war in Ukraine, our partners - the Hungarian Unitarian Church and its charity organization Gondviselés (in English: Providence) - have responded to the needs of Ukrainian war refugees.

    Transferring the aid shipment at the Orlivka border crossing, September 2024
    Transferring the aid shipment at the Orlivka border crossing, September 2024

    In September 2024, Gondviselés volunteers Olivér Kiss, journalist, and Vladimir Skalski, refugee from Odesa living in Cluj/Kolozsvár, undertook a life-threatening mission to deliver aid (food, health equipment, adult diapers, defibrillators) to Southern Ukraine. The transfer of the goods took place at the border crossing in Orlivka (on the Ukrainian side of the Danube's northern Dobruja section), an area that was affected by drone strikes the night before. The donations were received by the director of the Liubashivka city hospital.

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    ICUUW Executive Director and Providence Volunteer Zsófia Sztranyiczki with Providence President Rev. Lásló (on the right) and War Refugee and Providence Volunteer Vladimir Skalski (on the left)
    ICUUW Executive Director and Providence Volunteer Zsófia Sztranyiczki with Providence President Rev. Lásló (on the right) and War Refugee and Providence Volunteer Vladimir Skalski (on the left)

    Ukraine Fundraising

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    By Zsófia Sztranyiczki, ICUUW Executive Director
    20 March 2025

    A week after the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, ICUUW launched a large-scale fundraising effort to supply immediate assistance to families fleeing the war in Ukraine, in partnership with Gondviselés Segélyszervezet (in English: Providence Charity Organization), the charity arm of the Hungarian Unitarian Church. Thanks to over 480 ICUUW members, individual donors, UU congregations and organizations, ICUUW has sent $112,075 in support of Gondviselés's vital work for Ukrainian war refugees.

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    8th Aid Shipment to Southern Ukraine - several people in winter coats standing next to a delivery van holding signs
    8th Aid Shipment to Southern Ukraine

    8th Aid Shipment to Southern Ukraine

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    By Providence Charity Organization
    31 March 2024

    March 2024 marked the delivery of the 8th aid shipment from the Hungarian Unitarian Church and its Providence Charity Organization to Southern Ukraine. The humanitarian consignment, worth $7,700, is Providence's 18th aid operation in Ukraine since the beginning of the war.

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    Hungarian Unitarian Church Bishop István Kovács helping unload the aid shipment

    Journal Entry: Berehove, 13 April 2023

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    By Gizella Nagy, IWC Board Member, Romania
    10 June 2023

    On 13 April 2023, I joined the Ukrainian aid shipment program of the Providence Organization of the Hungarian Unitarian Church, for the second time. This was Providence’s 8th aid mission since the outbreak of the war: since March 2022, the organization has been delivering humanitarian aid to Transcarpathia (southwest Ukraine) and the war zone (Odesa and Mykolaiv area). This time we came to Berehove, the Diaconal Coordination Center of the Transcarpathian Reformed Church. The shipment included an 18-kW generator, a pallet of canned food and cooking oil, 30 tourniquets, and 400 wax candles.

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    ICUUW Board member Gizella Nagy with Rev. László Szabó, president of Gondviselés/ Providence Charity Organization. Berehove, September 26, 2022.
    ICUUW Board member Gizella Nagy with Rev. László Szabó, president of Gondviselés/ Providence Charity Organization. Berehove, September 26, 2022.

    Fall 2022 Update: Aid for Displaced Ukrainians (Textbooks and Supplies)

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    By ICUUW Staff
    23 November 2022

    From the onset of the war in Ukraine, the Hungarian Unitarian Church and its charity organization Gondviselés (in English: Providence) have responded to the needs of refugees and those internally displaced. This is the fall 2022 update.

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    Summer Camp group photo
    Summer Camp group photo

    Summer Camp & Aid Shipments: Latest Humanitarian Actions from Providence

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    By ICUUW Staff
    24 August 2022

    From July 4 to 8, 2022, the Hungarian Unitarian Church – through its charity arm Gondviselés (in English: Providence) Organization – organized a summer camp for 21 Ukrainian children at the Unitarian Parsonage of Săndulești/Szind, Cluj/Kolozs County, Romania. The colorful program was led by three Ukrainian camp leaders and Rev. Zsolt Elekes, teacher of Unitarian religion at the Unitarian High School in Cluj/Kolozsvár.

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    Kindergarten Students with Teacher
    Kindergarten Students with Teacher

    Kindergarten Class for Ukrainian Children in Kolozsvár/Cluj, Romania

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    By Zsófia Sztranyiczki, ICUUW Executive Director
    20 June 2022

    Based on articles in two Hungarian-language newspapers in Romania.

    © Photos by Iván D. Rohonyi and Iringó Tóth Gödri 

    On April 5, 2022, the Hungarian Unitarian Church – in collaboration with its Gondviselés (Providence) Charity Organization and the János Zsigmond Unitarian High School – launched a kindergarten class for Ukrainian refugee children within the premises of the Hungarian Unitarian Church's day care. This initiative is the first of its kind in Kolozsvár/Cluj, the third most populous city in Romania and the headquarters of the Hungarian Unitarian Church (HUC).

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    Vladimir (in the middle), Ukrainian refugee hosted by the Kolozsvár/Cluj Unitarians, together with Gondviselés staff and volunteers
    Vladimir (in the middle), Ukrainian refugee hosted by the Kolozsvár/Cluj Unitarians, together with Gondviselés staff and volunteers

    Assisting Families Fleeing from War in Ukraine

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    By the leadership of the Providence (Gondviselés) Charity Organization and the Cluj Refugee Task Force
    29 May 2022

    From the onset of the war in Ukraine, the Hungarian Unitarian Church and Providence (Gondviselés), its charity organization, have responded to the needs of refugees and those internally displaced. Below we present the development of this charity work in recent weeks (17 April–28 May 2022).

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    Supporting the Education of Ukrainian Refugee Children in Kolozsvár/Cluj

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    By Zsófia Sztranyiczki, ICUUW Executive Director
    17 May 2022

    On April 5, 2022, the Gondviselés (in English: Providence) Charity Organization of the Hungarian Unitarian Church launched a kindergarten class for 22 Ukrainian refugee children within the premises of the Hungarian Unitarian Church's Nursery School in Kolozsvár/Cluj. The contributions that Gondviselés received from various donors following the onset of the war – including funds raised by ICUUW through Faithify crowd funding and share-the-plate contributions – covered the cost to hire a certified kindergarten teacher and to provide a daily breakfast and warm lunch for the children.

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    Two Humanitarian Aid Shipments to South Ukraine - text with grid of photos
    Two Humanitarian Aid Shipments to South Ukraine

    Supporting People Affected by the War in Ukraine

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    By the leadership of the Providence Charity Organization and the Cluj Refugee Task Force
    19 April 2022

    From the onset of the war in Ukraine, the Hungarian Unitarian Church and Providence (Gondviselés), its charity organization, have responded to the needs of refugees and internally displaced people in Ukraine. Below you will find the summary of their activities during the first month of the war and the development of their charity work in recent weeks (23 March - 17 April 2022). Donations to ICUUW's second round of fundraising effort will supply further assistance to families fleeing the war in Ukraine. We ask you to join our call for action to help ensure that women and children fleeing war in Ukraine know they are not alone at the most perilous moment of their lives.

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    Ukraine

    • 2025 Update: Aid for Displaced Ukrainians
    • 8th Aid Shipment to Southern Ukraine
    • Assisting Families Fleeing from War in Ukraine
    • Fall 2022 Update: Aid for Displaced Ukrainians (Textbooks and Supplies)
    • Journal Entry: Berehove, 13 April 2023
    • Kindergarten Class for Ukrainian Children in Kolozsvár/Cluj, Romania
    • Summer Camp & Aid Shipments: Latest Humanitarian Actions from Providence
    • Supporting People Affected by the War in Ukraine
    • Supporting the Education of Ukrainian Refugee Children in Kolozsvár/Cluj
    • Ukraine Fundraising

    Ukraine Aid reports

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