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A Sister with IDPs in the seminary in Ivano-Frankivsk. (© ACN).

More than 200 displaced women and children in Ukraine will continue to receive food and shelter – thanks to fresh support from the UK office of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN).

Ivano-Frankivsk Archdiocese, western Ukraine – which has been looking after displaced families since the start of the war – turned to ACN to ensure it could provide ongoing care for those who fled their homes.

Most of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) being helped by the archdiocese are women and children who escaped Russian assaults on large cities including Kyiv, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia and Odessa.

Archbishop Volodymyr Wytyschyn of Ivano-Frankivsk told the charity: “Fleeing from the great catastrophe brought to our country by Russia’s war, people are seeking salvation and shelter in the western regions of our country.”

Dr Caroline Hull, national director of Aid to the Church in Need (UK), praised the work being done for IDPs in Ukraine.

She said: “Sisters, priests and others in Ukraine are doing amazing work looking after those who have had to seek refuge far from home. The UK office of ACN is delighted to be supporting the incredible work done by our Church partners."

Since the invasion of Ukraine, ACN has provided more than £2 million in essential aid to help the Church minister to those affected by the war.

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Sister Hlykeria told me “In 1989 I wrote and asked for a Child’s Bible from Aid to the Church in Need. It was the first time I felt that someone had heard a request of mine and responded to it.

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