Aus Luxemburg wurde folgende humanitäre Hilfe in die Ukraine an das Frauen- und Kinderheim in Iwano-Frankiwsk geschickt, in dem überwiegend Binnenflüchtlinge aus den Kriegsgebieten untergebracht sind: Kleidung, Schuhe für Kinder und Erwachsene, Bettwäsche und Decken.
Die Lieferung wurde am 25. März 2025 von den Verantwortlichen des Zentrums in Empfang genommen.
It was with great sorrow that we received the news on Saturday 15 March that our friend Oleksij Savkevich had died on the front line on Tuesday 11 March. He had decided in September 2024 to join the Ukrainian army to defend his country from Russian aggression. His unit was defending the territories of south-eastern Ukraine.
The leaders of the association ‘Ad Pacem servandam – For Peace and Against War’ had been friends with Oleksij’s family since aid had been organised in 2019 to support a project in Avdiivka, where Oleksij had been living since leaving Donetsk, where he had studied at university. He was a political scientist by training. After the Russian army occupied Donetsk in 2015, Oleksij and his wife founded a patriotic youth movement in Avdiivka. They had also organised a Ukrainian Festival in the same city on several occasions. The last time was in 2021, before the city was completely destroyed and occupied by the Russian army.
For his visit in 2019, we organised a charity concert at the church of Notre-Dame in Villerupt (France) to finance musical instruments for the youth group that Oleksij had formed and which was going to perform at the music festival in Avdiivka.
On the same occasion, he had visited classes at the Lycée de Garçons in Esch-sur-Alzette (L) where he had given a testimony on how his country had been invaded by the Russian army since 2014 and the consequences this had for Ukrainians.
He gave interviews to Luxemburger Wort, tageblatt and Radio Jéricho in Metz.
Our Ad Pacem committee extends its sincere condolences to his wife Svitlana, his children Danil and Marijka and his entire family.
With the money raised at the Christmas market in Differdange in December 2024, the association Ad Pacem bought two large solid wood cupboards for the women’s and children’s refuge centre in Ivano-Frankivsk, as well as basic food items. The management of the refuge and all its residents express their sincere gratitude for the help provided.
The association Ad Pacem used the funds raised at the Differdange (L) Christmas market in December 2024 to buy school stationery and craft materials for the Bereginya children’s club in Kropyvnytskyi. This group brings together children displaced from the occupied territories of the Donetsk region by the Russian army. The school teachers, 90% of whom are themselves displaced persons, try to help the children overcome the negative effects of the traumatic events they have experienced. They help them adapt to the new circumstances of their lives through art therapy and various handicrafts based on the folk traditions and artistic culture of the Ukrainian people.
Children from the Greek-Catholic parish in Berezhany (Western Ukraine) helped to make the decorations that were sold at the Christmas Market in Differdange (L) from 29 November to 22 December 2024. Many of them are internal refugees from territories at war or occupied by Russia in the east and south of the country.
On 6 January, the Ad Pacem association sent them sweets as presents.
Children from the Greek-Catholic parish in Berezhany (Western Ukraine) helped to make the decorations that were sold at the Christmas Market in Differdange (L) from 29 November to 22 December 2024. Many of them are internal refugees from territories at war or occupied by Russia in the east and south of the country.
On 6 January, the Ad Pacem association sent them sweets as presents.
From Friday 29 November to Sunday 22 December 2024, the association Ad Pacem servandam – Pour la Paix et contre la guerre asbl. was present at the Christmas Market in Differdange, renting a chalet. Visitors could buy a range of decorations for Advent, Christmas and the festive season. The decorations were made by a Ukrainian woman whose family fled Donbass in 2015, following the Russian invasion, to settle in western Ukraine.
Proceeds from the sales will go to help the Refuge for Women and Children in Ivano-Frankivsk, many of whom have fled the war-torn territories..
Sent from Luxembourg on 19 November 2024, our aid (six cardboard boxes) was received by our co-operator on 26 November 2024 at the Kharkiv hospital. The shipment contained bandages of various sizes, several post-operative kits, surgical masks, some orthoses and tubes and catheters for enteral feeding.
The Ad Pacem association bought 100 kg of paraffin in Ukraine for the school in Kropyvnyckyj (western Ukraine). The school’s pupils used the paraffin to make candles that were sent to the front where they are used by soldiers in the trenches. The majority of these pupils are internal refugees from Kramatorsk, a town in the east of the country close to the front line.
On Tuesday 19 November 2024 Claude Pantaleoni, president of the association, received a cheque for €2,000 from the committee of the Syndicat National des Enseignants SNE/CGFP at its headquarters in Luxembourg-Bonnevoie.
The money is earmarked for humanitarian aid projects financed by the association in Ukraine at the ‘Misto Dobra’ (Chernivtsi) and ‘Refuge for mothers and children’ (Ivano-Frankivsk) centres for victims of the war.
In the photo (left to right): Gilles GLESENER (General Secretary), Patrick REMAKEL (Chairman), Claude PANTALEONI, Claude RIES, Vanessa SCHETGEN (1st Vice-Chairman), Christian KOHNEN
The child Lubomir, from a refugee family from the Donbass, had to undergo an urgent operation on these two days in the hospital in Dnipro. He underwent an urgent operation for acute inflammation of the paranasal sinuses. The operation was paid for by Ad Pacem servandam.
A concertino has been organised by the Ad Pacem association in Italy in the town of Pergola (Province of Pesaro Urbino). Laura and Daniel Pantaleoni interpreted a number of classical and romantic works. Donations raised went towards the purchase of medicines for the psychiatric hospital in Vorzel, near Kyiv.
Dispatch from Luxembourg and receipt at the Ivano Frankivsk refugee centre of medical equipment (toilet chair,two walkers, several pairs of crutches), and clothing and footwear for the winter.
Our development worker uses the money from the sale of the 2024 calendars to buy and deliver the medicines needed by the psychiatric hospital in Vorzel (Ukraine).
The renovation of the intensive therapy room is complete. They were financed with the proceeds from the sale of the 2024 calendar.
