Christian Relief Services Provides $50,000 for Emergency Relief in Eastern Europe

For 37 years, Christian Relief Services and our affiliates have been fulfilling our mission to provide emergency relief across the country and around the world.

Today, that includes providing emergency support for homeless Ukrainian children, women, and senior citizens who have fled the country for their very lives – and leaving their fathers, husbands and sons to fight against the massive, full-scale invasion of their nation’s once-peaceful cities and towns.

We are pleased to report that Christian Relief Services, the founding organization of Running Strong for American Indian Youth®, Americans Helping Americans®, Bread and Water for Africa® and other charitable nonprofit organizations was able to do our part this spring by providing a grant of $50,000 to one of our long-term partners to rush critical medicines, medical and personal hygiene supplies to war-torn refugee families in Ukraine, and nearby in Poland, Romania and Moldova.

Incorporated in 1985, Christian Relief Services was founded to be “A Gentle Voice for Good” with the belief that community partnerships, whether on Indian Reservations and distressed Appalachian communities or around the world, are the best way to solve problems related to poverty, severe weather and earthquakes, or now, even war.

In fact, over the course of the past 37 years, Christian Relief Services has provided more than $1 billon in program services to millions living in 80 countries, including Ukraine, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland and Romania.

 Although the war in Ukraine is seemingly far from over, the suffering brought on by the massive destruction of cities and the tragic loss of lives will be felt for years, if not generations.

But thanks to the supporters of Christian Relief Services, we can take solace in the fact that we are doing all we can to help displaced Ukrainian children and their mothers who have fled their homeland with little more than their lives to rebuild while they continue to hope and pray that they will one day be reunited with those fathers and husbands left behind to fight for the country they love.