The wave of inquiries from the media about the amount of humanitarian aid that we distributed has resumed again. Written and oral requests which boil down to two questions: how much humanitarian aid was distributed and how much was spent on it? There are also those who ask: \u201cAnd is this more than that of\u2026\u201d and then there are names and surnames. There are other, in my opinion, dubious approaches: \u201cWe rank humanitarian aid\u2026\u201d Or \u2013 \u201cAnd how do you fight with those who receive your packages several times during one distribution?\u201d<\/p>\n
Friends, I\u2019ll answer all at once. First, I am a categorical opponent of ranking humanitarian aid. In terms of quantity, and even more so in terms of quality. Moreover, there are not and cannot be \u201cfirst\u201d and \u201clast\u201d among those who consider it necessary to support people in wartime. Don\u2019t turn it into a competition and don\u2019t make \u201ctournament tables\u201d with leaders and outsiders. Humanitarian aid is not only about how many food packages were distributed and how much each of them costs. This includes assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, medical institutions, rescue of animals and ensuring their maintenance in safe places. Yes, it takes quite a lot of money. I will answer to all of those who especially persistently want to calculate the amount of \u201chumanitarian food aid\u201d: we distributed about 540 thousand food packages and provided about 30 thousand hot meals.<\/p>\n
Secondly, I do not look into other humanitarian aid packages \u2013 we form our own packages, the contents of which we are not ashamed of.<\/p>\n
Thirdly, we do not \u201cfight\u201d with people who receive packages several times. Let\u2019s not stoop to cynicism. When there is a war that has touched everyone, the word \u201cstruggle\u201d has the most direct meaning. And certainly, this \u201cfight\u201d should not be with people who came for humanitarian aid. Today is generally the time of direct meanings of words. And humanitarian aid is directly related to humanity, that is, to humanity in relation to people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"