The Church announced a fundraiser for freezing residents of the Kherson region and Donbasstranslated

The Synodal Department for Charity of the Russian Orthodox Church announced a collection for the purchase of heating equipment and humanitarian aid for the affected residents of Donbass during the cold period.

It is expected that thanks to the funds raised, more than 7,000 people with disabilities and the elderly will receive assistance, reports the press service of the Synodal Department for Charity.

Photo courtesy of the press service of the Synodal Department for Charity

“There are power outages everywhere in the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions,” said Deacon Igor Kulikov, director of the Patriarchal Humanitarian Mission, head of the Department of Social Ministry and the Sector for Interaction with Dioceses of the Synodal Department for Charity. – In some cities and villages there has been no electricity and gas for several months, people are already freezing, increasingly local residents are turning to the assistance centers of the Patriarchal Humanitarian Mission asking for help in buying them gas cylinders, electricity generators, autonomous power plants, diesel heaters, potbelly stoves, coal, and warm clothes.

It is noted that in conditions of interruptions in electricity and heat, autonomous power plants are needed that can maintain the operation...