People in Israel and Ukraine are experiencing immense suffering and pain.
In both countries, people face extraordinary challenges: the loss of loved ones, or the fear of losing them; family fighting on the front lines; the disruption of schooling; terrifying nightly air raids; displacement from homes…
But you can help them today.
World Jewish Relief is training Ukrainian psychologists, supported by Israeli experts, to build their knowledge of how to provide life-changing assistance. We are funding resilience centers in Israel, so people can talk through their own grief and trauma. While both countries differ in many ways, they are united by war and united by grief.
This Rosh Hashanah, will you make a gift and help those suffering from grief and trauma?
Tatiana’s Story
Tatiana, a psychologist from Ukraine, knows the deep scars of war. Originally from Donetsk, she was displaced when Russians invaded in 2014. Forced to rebuild her life, she dedicated herself to providing psychological support to children.
But when war struck again in 2022, tragedy hit even closer. Tatiana’s younger brother was fighting for the Ukrainian army. One day, she received a call nobody wants to receive: he was killed in combat.
She was devastated; she felt like a part of her died too. She didn’t tell her parents for 10 days, because she didn’t know how to get the words out.
“I was broken. When you are broken, you can’t fix anything.”
Supporting each other…
Alongside the Israel Trauma Coalition (ITC), we’re providing training to psychologists like Tatiana so they can better support people affected by war. With help from Israeli experts, Tatiana learned how to help herself, and how to support traumatized children.
Through this critical program, we’re helping psychologists across Ukraine to build people’s resilience, and start the healing process. Tatiana was so grateful to the Israeli experts – after October 7th, she reached out to them to offer them support and guidance. She understood what they were going through.
“The training helped to fix me. This healed me, it gave me wings. Now I help others.”
Will you make a gift this Rosh Hashanah and help those suffering from grief and trauma?
