Cap Anamur Plans Project in Eastern Ukraine

Cap Anamur provides first emergency aid in the form of medicine and dressing supplies for the remote and severely undersupplied hospital in Svitlodarsk

For one week, Cap Anamur chairman Dr. Werner Strahl traveled through the Ukrainian war zones to assess possible aid measures. Meanwhile, the organization provided initial assistance in the form of a shipment of medicines and bandages to the remote and severely underserved hospital in Svitlodarsk.

Cap Anamur plans to expand its assistance in the Doneszk region in the coming months.

“We drove more than 1,000 kilometers in the frontline area on roads badly damaged by tanks and shells,” reports pediatrician Dr. Strahl. “We were denied entry into the occupied or pro-Russian ‘liberated’ territories. But we also gained plenty of depressing impressions on the Ukrainian side. While the economic situation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions was already very bad before the war – dilapidated large-scale combines and mines, poor housing conditions and poverty – many people now receive no wages at all. Given the poor exchange rate, pensions are not enough to live on. And now add to this the brutal warfare on both sides, forcing frightened residents to flee to the East or West. Our help is urgently needed!”

So far, about 6,000 people have been killed and there are many injured people who need to be treated in hospitals, which are short of everything, and some of which are also badly hit. The reconstruction of destroyed houses and bridges cannot yet begin in view of the still continuing impact of shells. ‘Minsk 2’ is not yet a certain success, but it gives some initial hope to an otherwise deeply depressed population. We will be expanding our humanitarian assistance to the people of the Donbas in the coming months.