“Friends on the streets”: UOC urges to help homeless of Kiev

Upon an initiative of vicar of Kiev Metropolitan’s Office Bishop Barsanuphius of Borodianka a new social project “Friends on the streets” has been launched in the Cathedral, set to offer a helping hand to homeless people, reports the site of the Cathedral.

For many years at the Social Department of Resurrection Cathedral of the UOC there has been distributed food to the poor every day, as well as given out seasonal clothes, gifts for big holidays, and charitable lunches.

Due to the deterioration of the economic situation, an increasing number of citizens appear on the city streets, who need daily nourishment and essentials. Growing is the number of people who come to the Cathedral. UOC Social Department intends to develop in the direction of care about the destitute and homeless as much as possible.

The project was blessed by His Beatitude Onuphry, Metropolitan of Kiev and all Ukraine.

The homeless aid project is named “Friends on the streets.” Such a name is not new and original among similar projects on good deeds with regard to the homeless. It was called in order not to make it stand out and with a view to doing our share in a social movement and aiding those by your side, this being our common cause.

Hopefully, the project “Friends on the streets” will find its fellow thinkers – volunteers and well-doers. A lot are able to provide such help, not only specialists and experts in this area, since all of us can be friendly and helpful to the destitute.