The Australian 2022 Advent Appeal for Ukraine was generously supported by Australian Catholics and raised $430,000.  The first half of these funds was used to deliver 10,750 food packages to parishes and communities in Ukraine, many in hard-to-reach areas which have been constantly under fire. 

The Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saints Peter and Paul of Melbourne forwarded funds raised by the appeal to Mudra Sprava, a Charitable Organisation Patriarchal Foundation of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) to implement the ‘Food Packages for People in Need’ project.   An on-ground Mudra Sprava team of 25 adapted to the challenges of war, overcoming many obstacles to source, package and distribute food packages to refugees, temporarily displaced persons and people suffering in the midst of war and occupation in Ukraine.  The Head of the UGCC distributed packages to people in need in the city of Kropyvnytskyi himself.  

Rev. Lyubomry Yavorsky, Director of Mudra Sprava, wrote in a recent report, “The delivery and presentation of each food package was a special experience for the entire “Mudra Sprava” team. After all, with the delivery of such a package, we received not only sincere words of gratitude for the tangible help to the needy, but also gratitude for the indifferent attitude to their difficult life situation.” 

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Mudra Sprava (Мудра Справа) translates as ‘Wise Cause’.