The war at home in Ukraine rages on and we continue to provide support to those who remain. We will never forget those that need our help and stay committed to providing shelter and emergency relief. Despite conditions in Odesa, Tikva has built bomb shelters attached to the school buildings and reopened them as classrooms. We have over 200 students attending schools on the days in which the bombings aren’t happening close by. We are also providing meals to all 200+ students enrolled in Tikva schools and send them home with meals for their families daily. These families are not able to work and would not have a hot meal if Tikva didn’t provide it. Tikva serves over 2,500 hot meals weekly for elderly, people with disabilities, and disadvantaged people, some of them Holocaust survivors.
Tikva also distributes 4,600 parcels of basic necessities and non perishable goods monthly through our meals-on-wheels programme. The demand for evacuations is on the rise and Tikva continues to organise the logistics for the safe evacuation of bus-loads of refugees weekly, as well as mental health care for the trauma being experienced.