“Nākotnes Atbalsta fonds” has supported the Catholic Church charity project aimed to help Ukrainian child refugees rehabilitate after suffering psychological traumas by engaging in creative process.
The project was initiated by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Riga, headed by Metropolitan Zbignev Stankevich. Practical implementation of the program is being carried out by “Caritas Latvija” organization, whose employees started to held drawing classes for child refugees helping them to recover from psychological traumas and adapt to new complicated situation since mid-February.
“Many children who have arrived to Latvia are now in a state of real stress. They found themselves without the home, without friends and usual surroundings, besides that they have endured horror of real war, some of them had lost their father, brothers, other relatives. These children are in need of care and we are trying our best helping them to cope with pailful emotions and have a new start, to think positive again. And creative work is one the ways to achieve this,” says the curator of the project Gabriella Cabiere.
From 8 till 23 May, an exhibition of drawings and other art works created by child refugees will be held in the Catholic Church premises in Riga (Maza Pils Street 2). There will be prizes and gifts for the winners and participants.
“Nākotnes Atbalsta fonds” (Future Support Fund), the charity fund founded by Rietumu Bank, have covered expenses to purchase drawing media and costs related to the organisation of the exhibition.
Inga Shina, Chairperson of the Board of “Nākotnes Atbalsta fonds”, notes: “Providing help for refugees and their families over the past month has become one of the main focuses of our work. All these people, displaced from their homes and uprooted from their usual lives, are in desperate need of support. This is why we are making all the possible efforts to help where it is mostly needed – to buy and deliver the necessary items, to ease the work and concerns of the mothers who have arrived with their children, to organise education, to help refugees get acquainted with Latvian and its capital Riga, to provide opportunities for creative work. I would like to encourage everyone who can help and is willing to do it to join in!”
If you would like to support this charity project,
please contact gabriella.cabiere@gmail.com or inese.svekle@caritas.lv.
More information can be found here: https://www.caritas.lv/2022/03/21/caritas-latvija-riko-labdaribas-akciju-kuras-merkis-ir-palidzet-ukrainas-beglu-berniem/.
Last week Charity fund “Nākotnes Atbalsta fonds” (“Future Support Fund”), founded by Rietumu Bank, donated a large number of baby diapers and wool blankets to Latvian Red Cross for needs of Ukrainian refugees.