Time cleanses the volunteer movement. Desperate tenacity, when in the first days of the war everyone took up volunteer work, was replaced by hard and painstaking daily work, which few could do.
Together with my assistant, Vyacheslav Oleksandrovich Fisun, and from the entire staff of the state institution “Institute of Soil Protection of Ukraine”, they handed over medicines and first aid supplies to the Dergachy community.
Of course, it is especially nice to help the Dergachs, because the head of the community, Vyacheslav Zadorenko, organizes everything on the spot so that people receive the most necessary things on time, and the volunteers have maximum support. And, maybe, as before, we would not give a lot of publicity to this good cause: we constantly support the Dergachiv region – an outpost of the defense of Ukraine. But we decided together with our colleagues: let’s talk about our act, because maybe for someone it will be a call not to leave volunteering.
Today, the volunteer movement needs as many devotees as possible. Yes, there is war fatigue, there are elements of despair, thoughts that your efforts will not change anything… They will!
I saw the eyes of people receiving help. I know the words of gratitude of the elderly, and the happy tears of mothers whose children were helped. Any help is, first of all, a conviction: “We have not been forgotten, we are needed, Ukraine takes care of everyone.” Helping one community is a small contribution to a big cause.
I am proud to be directly involved in this. I am grateful to everyone who helped to do good. And, I hope, each of us will find the strength to put aside fatigue and take up the difficult task of volunteering again.
It is not time to give up.
Let’s unite!
Glory to Ukraine!
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Sincerely yours,
Yuriy Zaytsev, general director of the SI “Derzhgruntokhorona”.