Wigilijny Talerz Dobra

Ukraine

Since the escalation of the war in February 2022, until mid-October 2024, nearly 6.8 million refugees4 from Ukraine have been recorded – 92 per cent of them in Europe. Inside Ukraine, an estimated 3.6 million people5 remain internally displaced as of October 2024.

Among the most vulnerable are also an estimated 12.6 million as of March 2025 people who were not displaced from their homes but who have been directly affected by the war – they have been wounded, their homes have been destroyed, their family members died.

Civilian infrastructure, such as power grids, water supply networks. hospitals transportation infrastructure, have been targeted by the daily missile attacks, severely disrupting people’s lives across the whole country, and particularly in the East.

About 3 600 educational institutions, including nearly

2 000 schools,

have suffered damage with some 371 educational facilities totally destroyed since the escalation of the war.
There were over

2 100 attacks

on healthcare facilities, which have claimed at least 197 lives, including those of health workers and patients, and injured many more, severely disrupting health services.

12.12.2022

The traditional Christmas Eve plate doesn’t have to stay empty at all this year….

7 different stories – each seemingly with no way out, a lost cause. Behind each are thousands of people who, like our protagonists, have been brought to the ultimate brink of hunger, poverty, cruelty, rejection and a life without hope.

Huruma (5 months old), Grandma Antoinette (85 years old), Zoia (58 years old), Celine (25 years old), Marcel (85 years old), Rachi (18 years old), Dave (29 years old) – we met each personally in different parts of the world. We introduced them to you and, little by little, you began to balance out the great losses in each story. Today, thanks to you, we are restoring life in them, providing care, security, work, dignity and the chance to build their future.

Each of your gestures and open hearts is the essence of embracing a guest, without which there is no Christmas Eve. It is a plate waiting for a guest who is ‘different’. Today at the Good Factory, we dream of having a Christmas Eve Plate of Good on every table on this one day of the year. It is not only an invitation for our charges to take an empty place at the table, but also real help, tailored to their needs. It is about restoring our charges’ hopes, dreams and faith in one more Christmas.