Msgr. Peter I. Vaccari, Adriana Bara and Anna Dombrovska visit a CNEWA-sponsored food box program Novoyavorivsk, Ukraine. (photo: Oleksandr Savranskiy)
Msgr. Peter I. Vaccari, CNEWA president, Adriana Bara, national director in Canada, and Anna Dombrovska, program officer, visited agency-sponsored programs in Lviv on a pastoral visit to Ukraine from 3-7 June. Upon arriving in Rzeszow, Poland, the team traveled to Lviv and made their way to Ukrainian Catholic University, where they were housed for the duration of their visit and sheltered during air raid alarms.
Hear more about their third day of project visits in Dr. Bara’s audio report below.
Tuesday, 6 June
Tuesday’s visits brought the team to a food box center in Novoyavorivsk, where they met with volunteers and observed the process of packaging boxes for distribution, and a center for displaced persons. Later, they visited with the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate and their House of Hope, which offers care to girls and young women in need.