The devastating poverty in Eastern Europe has left many on the brink of disaster, with families breaking apart, and elderly citizens barely surviving…

 Mission Without Borders has designed a variety of projects to help those in crisis.

Thanks to our donors we regularly distribute carefully designed parcels to impoverished families, but also the elderly who visit our Soup Kitchens at our Community Centres. These parcels go to young families and to the elderly; to families in refugee camps and to the handicapped.

Another form of basic help is through the soup kitchens we supply with food and other goods. This is only one aspect of our FamilyCare program. Our care for the elderly includes providing much needed medical assistance through our pharmacy projects and through local pharmacies, clinics, hospitals and optical centres.

We know all to well that we can’t help everyone in need. This is why, every year at Christmas, we launch one of our biggest projects - Operation Christmas Love. During Christmas time we distribute over 30, 000 extra-large gift parcels to families, but also to the elderly we identify as being in the most need. Other Non-Government Organisations also ask for our help at this time of year - the height of the Eastern European winter - associations for the elderly, blind, ex-political prisoners.

 Our practical help is often life-saving for an elderly person, but many would say the company, emotional and spiritual encouragement and comfort they receive in having contact us with workers and volunteers is what gives them to most joy!

 Read how Jelyazko’s life was dignified and changed by a stranger showing him love and respect.