Volunteers from the mine “Heroes of the Space” management support migrants from Donetsk and Lugansk Regions with warm things and foodstuff. More than 200 things of warm clothes for children and adults as well as packages with foodstuff have been packed and transferred to the migrants’ families staying in Pavlograd. Currently about 4 000 migrants including 828 children are staying in a town of Pavlograd and about 500 migrants including 136 children are in Pavlograd area as per information submitted by the Regional Center of the Social Services.

​Warm clothes and foodstuff collection act for the forced migrants from Anti-Terrorist Operation area started at the mine “Heroes of the Space” management on 1 October 2014. It was planned that things collection would take about a month but after completion of this action the mine’s staff extended to collect and pass warm clothes. The employees of “Heroes of the Space” mine have provided significant support for the tens of migrant families for the last three months.  

“Currently the citizens of Donbas have to leave their homes and escape to seek refuge at the peace civilian regions of the country. They certainly hoped that they would be able to return home in a couple of months. But by the look of things from the ATO area they will have to be as forced migrants for a long time and set hopes upon the arrangement of a conflict at Donbas as well as upon our charity and attraction to them. Even the minimum support provided by each of us will help migrant go through this winter”, – commented Mrs. Helen Khrapchinskaya, the leading specialist of “Heroes of the Space” mine economy and the participant of the act.     

This is not the first volunteer action in which “Heroes of the Space” staff has been participating. Employee of the “Heroes of the Space” mine helped collect school supplies and accessories for more than 150 children of migrant families. Mine-workers have taken part in Days of unpaid work – landscaping parks, streets and squares, scavenging green areas and recreation areas at Western Donbas for two last years. About 500 people of the mine have become participants of a volunteer movement for this period of time.    

The mine “Heroes of the Space” management will provide its further support for migrant families what they can.