Donations needed

Soup kitchens against hunger in western Ukraine

The donated ingredients from Lower Austria are prepared in large pots in Ukraine.(Bild: Wolfgang Zarl)

Mostviertel nuns and a deacon from the Vienna Woods on a "pasta mission" for the needy victims of the war.

I feel so sorry for the people who are suffering from hunger and cold," says Franciscan nun Cornelia Waldbauer sadly. Together with her co-sister Franziska Bruckner from Amstetten, Deacon Peter Zidar organizes urgently needed food transports to western Ukraine. "It's mainly elderly people with their grandchildren who could hardly survive without help," says Zidar sadly.

The Franciscan nuns in Amstetten collect food, which Deacon Zidar takes to Ukraine. Donations for the soup kitchens: IBAN AT67 3266 7000 0170 9047, purpose: Ukraine(Bild: Krone KREATIV/Wolfgang Zarl)

Small building blocks against hunger
It was a frosty morning recently when the van was loaded in Maria Anzbach. The boxes were filled to the brim with rice, pasta and canned vegetables - small building blocks against hunger for the soup kitchens of the war-torn country. The roads to the east are long and bumpy, the border crossings strictly controlled. But when Zidar arrives, he senses why the effort is worth it: pots are steaming in a small kitchen, the smell of broth mingles with the cold of winter, an elderly woman who has fled with her grandchildren reaches for his hand. "Without you, I wouldn't know what to eat," she sobs with tear-filled eyes. It's just a warm meal. And yet so much more. . .