By Rafal Matusiak, President — National Association of Cooperative Savings and Credit Unions
Polish American Credit Union Support Fund | Via Stella Foundation https://www.viastella.pl/
July, 2023
Dear Friends,
As the conflict in Ukraine has escalated with offensives and counter offensives, civilians in Ukraine have again been driven from their homes and injured. Via Stella is responding to new calls for emergency medical equipment and ambulances for those affected by the fighting.
Medical personnel in Ukraine are hard pressed to provide care to those from the battlefield and those from the missile attacks. Medical personnel of varied expertise are required to respond to traumatic injuries and wounds daily.
As citizens flee the renewed fighting they seek help at regional hospitals back behind the front lines. One such hospital is the Valky Central District Hospital, outside Kharkiv. The conflict has displaced many women from their homes and they shelter in the Valky area.
The regional hospital has a large number of displaced women, some traumatized, in need of services. Yet they cannot go for health care to the larger hospital in Kharkiv because of the danger of daily missile attacks on Kharkiv and because of battlefield injuries which overwhelm the hospital in Kharkiv.
Your suport enabled Via Stella to provide the Valky hospital with medical equipment to establish a gynecology surgery department to care for these dislpaced women.
You should know that you helped make a difference for these women and their children. They have a better chance for a healthy life now because of you.
I hope that you can join us virtually in Lublin Poland on July 14.
National Association of Credit and Savings Unions (NACSCU)