Fundraising by Cristina Castronovi

Life in Mykolaïv and Kherson goes on: stores open; cars and streetcars walking; people singing and celebrating masses in church praying for an end to the war; board games and community lunches and dinners; newly bombed out places that are immediately rushing to rebuild.

Of course, when I was in Ukraine with Operation Dove, I also breathed in the weariness and despair of those who, after almost three years, are still at war. But in spite of everything, you resist, you do not leave your land because "I when I am here with my family I smell home."

And this is what pushed me even more to believe that this kind of resistance is stronger than armed resistance, that life is beyond the front!

Contribute with me to support Operation Dove's Peace presence in Ukraine. Thank you, thank you, thank you!