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Image Staff from multi-purpose cash assistance centres across Poland – established to support incoming refugees to Poland from Ukraine – gather in Bytom for a full-week training in 'community-based psychosocial support' provided through ACT Church of Sweden. All photos: LWF/Albin Hillert Poland: Community centers for Ukrainian refugees and host communities LWF expands its refugee response in Poland into the areas of protection, social cohesion, and education. A workshop on community based psychosocial support equipped Ukrainian refugee staff from around the country for the new tasks.
Image 10 October 2022, Kyiv, Ukraine: A man walks through the rubble and shards of glass on the street of Vulytsya Tereshchenkivsʹka in central Kyiv, which hours earlier was hit by a Russian missile. Photo: LWF/ Albin Hillert Ukraine: Lutherans in Kyiv help people in need As Russian missiles continue to hit cities all over Ukraine, the Lutheran congregation in Kyiv and its volunteers support people in need.
Image Hanna and Olga with their children, in the LWF center in Gdansk. All photos: B. PACHUTA, LWF Ukraine: You have to stand up, and move on LWF cash centers help Ukrainian refugees settle in Poland
Image A woman serves food at a soup kitchen for refugees from Ukraine, at the Vyšné Nemecké border crossing between Slovakia and Ukraine. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert Six months in: Continued support needed for Ukraine “Great hospitality and solidarity” by Lutheran churches
Image March 2022: A volunteer at a church-run support point at the Vyšné Nemecké border crossing between Slovakia and Ukraine shares information with a refugee family who have just arrived in Slovakia. At the onset of the war, the border crossing at Vyšné Nemecké saw up to some 10,000 refugees cross each day. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert Slovak church highlights Ukraine response at EU "Churches today want to be here for others”
Image Houses in Chernihiv, as seen by the LWF assessment team. Photo: LWF/J.Pfattner Ukraine: LWF team visits towns north of Kyiv “The most vulnerable stayed behind”
Image Mr Allan Calma is the LWF World Service Global Humanitarian Coordinator. Photo: LWF/S. Gallay World Humanitarian Day "Local people are usually the first providing aid”
Image Pavlo Shvarts, Bischof der Deutschen Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche in der Ukraine. Foto: LWB/S. Gallay Ukraine: Preaching the gospel brings us hope Bishop Pavlo Shvarts of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ukraine on “accepting one’s human limitations”
Image LWF Council members in plenary session at this year's meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. Photo: LWF/S. Gallay LWF calls for end to war in Ukraine and “bolder efforts” to address other conflicts Council urges concerted peacebuilding processes in statement
Image LWF General Secretary Rev. Anne Burghardt. Photo: LWF/S Gallay ‘Sustainability and continuity’ in LWF’s 75th year General Secretary Rev. Anne Burghardt reports to Council on highlights from her first year in leadership role