Survivors of shelling in the Kursk region can apply for any help by calling the number hotline of the Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service 8-800-70-70-222. The call is free and the line is open 24 hours a day. You can offer your help with housing for survivors at the same phone number.
The Church Relief Hotline receives an average of four calls per hour. Since 5 a.m. Aug. 8, 43 people have contacted the hotline with requests for shelter, transportation, food and hygiene products. Among the callers are elderly people, families with many children. Relatives of seriously ill people who stayed in dangerous neighborhoods also appealed.
The last few days the rector of the Holy Trinity Church of Suja, Archpriest Eugene Shestopalov evacuates victims from dangerous areas. «Now we are taking old people and children to Bolshoye Soldatskoye. There is no communication yet. We can hear shooting. I tried to go to Sudzha, but I was stopped by the military, our guys. They said, it is better not to go to Sudzha and did not let me in», — Archpriest Eugene Shestopalov told today from Bolshoye Soldatskoye.
In Kursk diocese are providing assistance to the victims: refugees from the shelled territories are accepted in the Kursk Kornaya Desert, 11 people have already been accommodated there. The victims are also ready to be accommodated in the Znamensky monastery. The Kursk diocesan administration has transferred funds to purchase medicines for the injured civilians and wounded. Priests are visiting the wounded in hospitals. Archpriest Sergius Klyaev, head of assistance to military hospitals of the Synodal Department for Charity, will leave for Kursk tomorrow.
News and stories about the Church's social ministry are published in Telegram channel «Affairs of the Church» and in the groups of the Synodal Department for Charity in VK, OK, on Youtube channel.
.You can help refugees and affected civilians at helpvbede.rf. You can support church social projects on the online platform of the Synodal Department for Charity «Let's Help».
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