For the fifth year in a row, the residents of our shelter have been celebrating Easter there – ever since April 2022, when, at the start of the full-scale war, they gathered here for the first time around a festive table. And this year, too, people were together – greeting one another, sharing Easter bread, painted eggs, and other festive treats, and wishing each other happiness and peace.

We hope that once the war is over, they’ll also have the chance to talk to one another, get together, and spend time together, because during their years at the shelter, they’ve already become one big family – close friends who care about one another and try to support and help each other.

Representatives of the “KG-BLAGO” Charitable Foundation (students and teachers from Educational Complex No. 148 “Planet of Happiness”) visited the shelter to wish the young residents of our shelter a happy spring holiday.

The children were delighted by the guests’ arrival and by spending time with them. The guests – both children and adults – gave them gifts: candy, toys, souvenirs, and school supplies. Everyone was happy with the gathering – new acquaintances were made, new friends were formed, and everyone was in a wonderful mood!

Thank you to the “KG-BLAGO” Charitable Foundation for caring for internally displaced persons! Thank you to everyone who helped collect gifts for our children – the students of Educational Complex No. 148 and children from other schools in Dnipro!

This year, Maslenitsa took place from February 16 to 22. As always, the residents of our shelter joined in the celebrations.

This year, the children from the shelter tried their hand at making pancakes and treated the adults to them. They were assisted by Father Mykolai Kupchynskyi, a priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, along with his friends—artists who came to the shelter for the holiday. Together, they prepared treats and served them to the adult residents of the shelter. Then there was a concert, which perfectly complemented the celebration, creating a warm, friendly atmosphere.

Specialists from the Angels of Salvation Charitable Foundation visited our shelter to conduct classes with the young residents. Lessons in mathematics, Ukrainian language, English language, history, creative classes in the art workshop, and with a speech therapist—such an interesting educational program was prepared for our children by representatives of the Angels of Salvation Charitable Foundation, for which we are very grateful. We thank the Angels of Salvation Charitable Foundation for their cooperation with our organization and for educating and developing the children at the shelter!

Our shelter was visited by Konstantin Zhaldakov, Chairman of the Council on IDP Issues at the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration, and Yuriy Onishchenko, member of the Council on IDP Issues, as part of their monitoring visits to temporary accommodation facilities for internally displaced persons in Dnipro with the aim of assessing the needs of displaced persons.

Humanitarian aid was delivered to the shelter – drinking water supplies and fuel vouchers, prepared in cooperation with the Charitable Foundation “Promotion and Development.” The young residents of the shelter also received sweet gifts from the guests.

During the meeting between representatives of the Council on IDP Issues and Talina Zharikova, head of the Dobro na Amuri Charitable Foundation, a number of problematic issues were raised concerning shelter and requiring urgent resolution. In addition, Konstantin Zhaldaakov met with shelter residents and talked to them about their current needs and the problems they face every day. He personally familiarized himself with the living conditions of IDPs in the shelter by visiting the common areas and residents’ living quarters.

“Today, I met many fellow countrymen from Luhansk region. I am an internally displaced person myself and understand perfectly well the difficulties people face. That is why, if I can help, I will do everything in my power,” said Konstantin Zhaldakov, commenting on his visit.

The meeting took place in a friendly atmosphere and left a pleasant impression.

We are very grateful to the representatives of the Council on IDP Issues for caring for the residents of our shelter and trying to resolve the issues that concern them.

A pleasant surprise for residents of the Dobro na Amuri charity shelter on New Year’s Eve!

Oksana Filippova, a native of Dnipro who moved to the Netherlands in 2022 after the war began, organized a Christmas fair there, which raised €4,000 to install solar panels on our shelter building. The fair was held in the small village of Rolde in the northeast of the Netherlands. The residents of this village were happy to join in the charity event to raise funds for our organization. The fair was held in the ancient cathedral of Rolde in a Christmas setting with characters from the Christmas nativity scene and a festive atmosphere. The main sponsor of the event was the local volleyball team.

With the funds raised at this event, we plan to install several sections of solar panels on the roof of the shelter building and generate electricity for lighting and heating several rooms in the shelter. This will allow us to save on electricity supplied to the shelter by the energy provider and reduce the shelter’s utility bills, which is very important for us!

We are very grateful to Oksana and other organizers of the fair: the municipality of Rolde, representatives of local churches, businesses, and sports clubs! We are very grateful to all participants of the fair—Dutch, Ukrainians, and residents of other countries, everyone who joined in raising funds for our shelter!

Children from the Good on the Amur Charity Foundation’s shelter went to the theater! They attended the performance of “Pippi Longstocking” at the Taras Shevchenko National Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater in Dnipro.
For the wonderful performance and positive emotions of the children, we thank the artists of the Shevchenko Theater! And for the tickets to the theater and the opportunity to touch the world of art, we are very grateful to our friend of the organization – boxer from Dnipro Mark Schumaker!

Natalia Boginya, a volunteer from Dnipro, visited the shelter with sweet gifts from herself and her benefactors. She brought wonderful cakes for the residents of the shelter. The children were delighted with these delicacies and the opportunity to participate in their decoration themselves! We wish our organization and the residents of the Good on Amur shelter had more friends like her.

The art therapy session organized in the shelter by our partners, representatives of the Tenth of April NGO, was very popular with the children. During the session, they painted portraits of their friends and then framed them and presented them to each other.

A celebration of spring organized for the shelter’s residents by UOC priest Nikolai Kupchinsky with the support of a well-known volunteer from Mariupol, Yevgeny Tuzov.
Singing, dancing, performances by mimes, an illusionist, musicians, a life-size puppet Dog Patron, lots of balloons and a tea party with pizza – that was the celebration.
We thank Father Mykola Kupchynsky, all the artists and presenters, volunteer Yevhen Tuzov and Pizza Day for the good holiday and goodies.