Elderly women attend a day club at Federation partner’s Hesed Menachem Jewish Welfare Center in Dnepropetrovsk, which runs social and cultural activities and provides food, medical care and winter relief to 7,000 seniors.
Elderly patients visit a medical clinic at the Beit Baruch center in Dnepropetrovsk. Thanks to support from Federations, the center provides around-the-clock healthcare, food and shelter to Ukraine's most vulnerable Jewish seniors.
Roman Dubovskoy was a retired psychologist living comfortably with his wife, four children, and in-laws at their home in Lugansk, Ukraine when fighting erupted last August. Suddenly, they were forced to flee 231 miles to Zaporozhye, where all eight of them now must live together under one …
When fighting broke out in Donetsk, Ukraine between the government and separatist forces last year, Raisa Libenson believed she and her family would be safe at home.
It wasn’t until a mortar shell tore through the walls and furniture of her apartment, leaving the 78-year-old temporarily d…
Masha Shumatskaya’s family embraced the revival of Jewish life in Donetsk after decades of Communist suppression. She attended Jewish school, learned Hebrew and thrived in a JDC leadership program for young Jews.
But amid ongoing conflict and chronic unemployment, she and her mother w…
