NewsNews4 July 2022

Ukrainians are encouraged to write "love letters" to the residents of the temporarily occupied territories

On the website lettersoflove.org.ua , anyone can write warm words of support to Ukrainians who remained in temporarily occupied cities and villages. The organizers of the project plan to collect at least 10,000 messages, which will be delivered to their destinations by all possible means.

The "Letters of Love" project is implemented by the communication agency Gres Todorchuk. It will be part of a large-scale communication campaign created with the assistance of public organizations that work with humanitarian and informational issues in the temporarily occupied territories (SO "SVOI" (Zaporizhia), NGO "Molodi Initiatives" (Kherson region), Foundation "UNION" (Kherson region ).

"Currently, 20% of Ukraine, including Crimea and Donbass, is under Russian occupation," says Anastasia Hryshko, Executive Director of the "Union" NGO. — Every day, the occupation regime is becoming more and more cruel to Ukrainians. They are not allowed to leave the regions, mobile communications and the Internet are limited and controlled. Ukrainians on the TOT have actually become hostages. Living for the fifth month in a constant sense of fear and danger, they become morally tired, lose hope in their own future and feel helpless. "Letters of love" should become a saving grace for our relatives and friends, prove that we have not forgotten about them, that we are with them and will fight for them. Let's show the Ukrainians at TOT how much we love them and how we look forward to meeting them after our victory!"

"Letters of love" can be an appeal both to a specific person and to the inhabitants of any settlement that is currently occupied. In addition to messages in online format, which will be delivered through all possible means of communication, "letters of love" will also be printed and sent to TOT in a variety of ways.

"Our key task is to show people at TOT that we remember them," says Gres Todorchuk operations director Daria Lyubimova. — That we will return, that we will hug, that we will be together again. And to deliver these messages, we will be very creative and resourceful. After all, every "love letter" must reach the addressee. In general, "Letters of Love" is only the first project within the framework of a large campaign to support residents of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Fundraising and offline events are ahead, which will aim to keep this topic in the constant focus of attention of Ukraine and the world."

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