Peacebuilding in Odessa
Alla Soroka reports on a ‘peace camp’ near Odessa, held this July, that was part of Quaker peacebuilding work in the Ukraine
The ‘White Sail’ summer peace camp, which was made possible by generous funding by British Friends and Meetings, ran from 15 to 26 July 2015 in the ‘Blessed Summer Recreation Centre’, which is forty kilometres from Odessa. There were eight families participating, including eleven parents, eleven children above the age of fifteen years and seven children of ten to fifteen years of age. They were all displaced people from the Lugansk and Donetsk regions as well as the Crimea, who were recommended by charities and the social services.
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