{"id":256,"date":"2019-10-25T14:45:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T18:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnewa.org\/ca\/?page_id=256"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:57:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:57:25","slug":"eastern-europe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cnewa.org\/ca\/where-we-work\/eastern-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CNEWA focuses its Eastern European activities in Ukraine<\/a>, Armenia <\/a>and Georgia<\/a>, nations that continue their struggle to rebuild after decades of economic collapse, political instability, corruption, war and now the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Deeply rooted Christian cultures, Armenia and Georgia\u2019s small Catholic communities reach out to the most marginalized despite modest human and financial resources. Ukraine\u2019s Greek Catholic churches have reinvigorated parishes and communities. CNEWA works closely with these communities of faith, focusing its activities on caring for isolated and marginalized peoples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Girls practice English at a Caritas day care center in Tbilisi. Learn more about efforts to help children in Georgia in “A Child’s Rights Restored” from the March 2012 edition of ONE. (photo: Molly Corso)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Father Galstian meets with youth of the village of Bavra. (photo: Nazik Armenakyan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ivlita Kuchaidze, center, has survived famine, war and neglect over her 93 years in Georgia \u2014 but today lives in poverty, depending on charity to survive. Read her remarkable life story in the Spring 2016 edition of ONE. (photo: Molly Corso)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A sister of the Order of St. Basil the Great plays with kindergarteners in Lviv. (photo: Ivan Chernichkin)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n
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