Ukraine · May 2025 In May 2025, Make a Difference partnered with Biblica and Bridges of Faith to take the first 20,000 copies of the waterproof Bible into Ukraine. Each copy is a pocket-size New Testament and Psalms in Ukrainian, small enough to carry anywhere. At a...
Our journey in Turkey · Part 2 of 3 Three months after the earthquakes of 6 February 2023, the region was still in crisis. More than 53,000 people had died in Turkey, and across the eleven affected provinces, home to about 14 million people, many families who had lost...
Our journey in Turkey · Part 1 of 3 In the early hours of 6 February 2023, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck south-eastern Turkey near Kahramanmaraş. Hours later a second major earthquake hit the same region. It was one of the deadliest disasters in the country’s...
Our trips to Bakhmut · Part 2 of 2 In January 2023, shortly before Bakhmut fell, Alexandru Vlad and a team from Romania and Ukraine took much-needed aid into the city. Bakhmut at a glance ~70,000 people lived there before the war ~5,900 civilians still there in early...
Our trips to Bakhmut · Part 1 of 2 In December 2022, just before Christmas, Alexandru and a team from Romania, Canada and Ukraine went into Chasiv Yar and Bakhmut for the first time. We brought food for families and Christmas presents for children, many of whom were...
Kyiv, Bucha and Irpin · May 2022 In May 2022, less than two months after Russian troops pulled back from the Kyiv region, Alexandru and the team made our first trip to Kyiv. We made the trip in partnership with Biserica Baptistă Speranța din Baia Mare (BBSO). On the...
