"When COVID-19 first hit Ukraine, we oversaw the creation of support networks to provide ritual items and kosher food to families and individuals celebrating Jewish holidays in isolation. Two years later we been forced to mobilize those same volunteer networks — this time to provide basic necessities to the people of Ukraine.
When the war had started, nobody in the whole world believed that Ukraine could stand for more than a week. And yet, here we are, living through a year-long miracle.
As emissaries of the Chabad movement, we are trained to provide for every need of the Communities: to build Jewish schools, kosher canteens and so on. But no one prepares you to be a logistics center, providing medications and coordinating relief efforts.
We are blessed to have the strength to do it: when you have to jump in the water you just do it, because no one else can do it for you. And with Hashem’s help we have saved thousands of lives. It is our mitzvah."
