The Special Humanitarian Center of the Crimean Metropolis delivered another humanitarian cargo to the aid center of the Patriarchal Humanitarian Mission in the city of Skadovsk, Kherson region..

The cargo includes diapers and diaper covers for people with limited mobility, household chemical sets, clothing, several bags of flour, sugar, rice and other grains, as well as pot‑bellied stoves: in conditions of constant power outages, they are intended for residents of houses that do not have gas.
Despite the very challenging times in the region, Crimeans continue to regularly collect humanitarian supplies for those in need.
“Due to logistics problems, our supplies are being collected more slowly than we would like,” comments the head of the Special Humanitarian Center of the Crimean Metropolis, curator of the Patriarchal Humanitarian Mission for the Kherson Region, Archpriest Dmitry Krotkov. “But I still see great merit in the believers of Crimea, who understand the importance and necessity of participating in helping their fellow human beings.” Slowly, but the collections are still going on: someone will donate diapers, someone will donate food and hygiene products. That’s why we always have a small but steady opportunity to support the residents of the Kherson region.”
Parishes of the Simferopol city and district deaneries, parishioners of the Church of the Holy Prophet Elijah in Saki, the Saki church district, the humanitarian center under the Yalta deanery, as well as benefactors from Krasnodar took part in the cargo collection.
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The Patriarchal Humanitarian Mission was established by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church with the aim of coordinating and systematically developing assistance to civilians in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Luhansk People's Republic, and the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, as well as providing assistance to wounded military personnel.
There are 12 aid centres of the Patriarchal Humanitarian Mission operating in Donbas, Novorossiya, and the border regions, where over 410,000 requests have been processed. More than 4,400 tons of humanitarian aid have been provided to those affected. More than 7,900 volunteers have taken part in providing assistance to the victims. As part of the project to restore private housing for those in need in the conflict zone, 827 private houses have been restored. Volunteer priests go on shifts to 45 hospitals in the Donbas, Novorossiya, and border regions. Together with the Synodal Department for Charity, a service is providing assistance to veterans of the special military operation and their loved ones.