Sumy, Sumy Province, Ukraine, December 7, 2023
Photo: portal-pravoslavie.sumy.ua
The Sumy Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has completed another round of its annual charity event, “Bright Deeds for a Bright Day,” in which it raises funds to purchase necessary medical equipment and supplies for sick children.
In this 12th diocesan charity drive, more than 1 million hryvnia (currently $27,240) were donated and used to purchase medicine and a centrifuge device for cytological studies for the local children’s clinical hospital, the diocese reports.
His Eminence Metropolitan Evlogy of Sumy personally handed over the device on Tuesday, December 5. The donated medicines allow for children with cancer to be treated according to European standards.
Vladyka Evlogy also gave the little patients candy and an icon of the Mother of God.
“Despite the difficulties of wartime, the 2023 campaign was successfully completed. For the Lord God created mercy through the hands of the great family of Sumy philanthropists,” the diocesan report concludes.
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