Ukrainian Relief Project New Haven–Update 21 March 2022

The church hall will be open for these times this week to receive donations:

Tuesdays: 5-7 p.m.
Saturdays: 10am-2 p.m.
Sundays: Noon -1:30 p.m.

Ways to give this week:

This list of medical supplies was identified as needed by medical professionals in Ukraine.

THANK YOU for your generosity!

Tourniquets (CAT 5th, 6th, & 7th gen.)
Bandages (Israeli type)
Hemostatic combat gauze
Decompression needles
Occlusive tape
Burn bandages
Sterile bandages 10×14
Dressings
Non-woven adhesive tape
Transparent tegaderm
Sterile wipes
IV systems (for blood transfusion)
Laryngeal masks with combitubes (4, 5, & 6)
IntraBone disposable access systems
Rubber hemostatic medical plaits
Flexible splint (SAM)
Elastic bandages
Soft gauze
Hemostatic swabs and patches
Crystalloids and colloids compositions
PPE- gloves, masks, & eye protection glasses
NPA or OPA face masks
Tactical bags
PillPacks
Tracheostomy kits

Plus,
CELOX Z-fold gauze, standard 45” x 4 yards • Emergency (Israeli Battle Dressing) Compression Bandage • Pressure dressing • Rolled gauze, standard 4.5” x 4 yards • Nasopharyngeal airway • SAM universal Aluminum splint, 36” • Ambu bags • Bandage Strips, 1”x3” • Gauze pads, 4” x 4” (6x) • Abdominal pad (sometimes “ab pad”), 5” x9” (2x) • Burn Aid – water gel burn dressing 4×16 • Burn Aid – water gel burn dressing 4×4 • Chest seals (1 pair) • Coban roll, standard 2” x 5 yards • Cravat/triangular bandage, 45” x 45” x 63” • Cervical Collar • CPR Mask • Cravat Bandage (CamoVat) • Dynarex Medicut Sterile Disposable Scalpels #10 • EMT Shears • Eye Wash, 4oz. • IV Catheter 18 G – 20 G • IV Starter Kits • Medical Adhesive tape rolls (2 – 3″ inches) • Multi Trauma Dressings, 12”x30” • Pain Relievers – Ibuprofen or Acetaminophen, or both • Pair of Tweezers • Safety Pins • Stainless Steel Hemostats • Sutures needle size 6 • Tongue Depressors • Triple Antibiotic Ointment (full size) • Emergency blanket (2x)

HOSPITAL NEEDS • Aspirin / Bayer • Butterfly bandages, 0.5″ x 2.75″ (16x) • Caffeine pills • Central venous catheter kit • Diphenhydramine / Benadryl • Doxycycline and/or Bactrim antibiotics • Dressing materials, include dry or impregnated gauze, • Elastic wrap / ACE bandage, standard 4” x 5 yards • Gels, foams, hydrocolloids, alginates, hydrogels, and polysaccharide pastes, sutures • Gloves (examination and sterile) • Hydrocortisone cream (1%) • Irrigation syringe, 20cc with an 18 gauge tip • Laryngeal Tube • Loperamide / Imodium • Miconazole • Moleskin, 5” x 2” strip • Mouthpiece for giving CPR • Needle & thread stored in isopropyl alcohol (2x needle/thread, 1x small container) • Pepto-Bismol pills • Plastic cling wrap, 2” wide roll • Plastic films • Portable ventilators • Safety pins (3x, various sizes) • Saline eye drops • Silk medical tape roll, 1” wide • Tweezers • White petroleum jelly / Vaseline in small container

Parish announcements

Christ is among us!

This week vigil light is offered by Chris Komondy in memory of Helmut Heinrich.

FROZEN PYROHY is sold out now.

If you would like to have a Confession, Holy Communion or prayer of the sick at your house or nursing home, please call the rectory at 203-865-0388.

SOROKOUSTY will be celebrated during Lent in All Souls’ Saturdays on March 26 and then after Holy Pascha on June 4. Please give the names of your beloved dead to Father Iura to be remembered at the Divine Liturgies noted above. Let us remember all our loved ones who have gone to their heavenly reward. Eternal Memory!

Sestretsi will be having Corporate Communion at 9:00 a.m. Divine Liturgy on April 3rd. Meeting in the church hall after the Divine Liturgy.

PYSANKA –Ukrainian Easter Egg Workshop will be held on Sunday, March 26, in the church hall from 1:00 to 3:30 p.m. It is open to youth and adults, but children must be accompanied by an adult. Bring your children and grand-children to learn about their beautiful heritage. Free to parish youth and Ridna Shkola students. Charge for class is $10 per participant. See flyer for details or call Gloria Horbaty (203) 269-5909 for information. Supplies will be available for purchase. Sponsored by UNWLA branch 108, Ukrainian Heritage Center and the CT Ukrainian-American Historical Society.

PARISH COFFEE HOUR: Dear parishioners and guests, after each Divine Liturgy, coffee and hard rolls are available in the church hall.

A container is in our church vestibule for non-perishable food. This collection will be taken every week or twice per month. Father Iura will distribute the food to those in need. Thank you for your generosity.

PLEASE TAKE NOTE of the numerical assigned donation envelope boxes the tare in the back of he church for you to pick up as well as the 2022 calendars.

Ukrainian Relief Project New Haven UPDATE for March 18, 2022

Ukrainian Relief Project New Haven –UPDATE for March 18, 2022

Ways to give this week:

The church hall will be open for these times this week:

Tuesdays: 5-7 p.m.
Saturdays: 10am-2 p.m.
Sundays: Noon -1:30 p.m.

Humanitarian items to collect are found on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2DC0A0NXSAR5N?type=wishlist

You have may have the items sent to the Church:

St. Michael the Archangel Church
569 George Street
New Haven, CT 06511-5301

Medical Supplies to collect:

First Aid Kits
Trauma Kits
Tylenol
Aspirin
activated carbon
burn dressings
bandages
saline solution
PPE —gloves, masks, eye protection
wheel chair
men’s underwear and white tube socks

Financial Help

For Humanitarian Help

Online:
St Michael’s Ukrainian Humanitarian Relief Fund
https://givesendgo.com/G2ZXR

Send:
KofC Council 16253
St. Michael the Archangel Church
569 George Street
New Haven, CT 06511-5301

Checks payable to: KofC Council 16253
In the memo: St. Michael’s Ukrainian Humanitarian Relief Fund

For Medical Supplies

Send:
Mr. Carl R. Harvey
Ukrainian American Veterans Post 33
PO Box 972
Orange, CT 06477

Checks payable to: Ukrainian American Veterans Post 33
In the memo: Ukrainian Soldier Welfare Fund

Hope in darkness: new life

On March 15, in the village of Slavutych in the Chernihiv region, surrounded by enemy troops, a baby was born by the Presbytera of Father Yuri Logaza, rector of the UGCC church of the icon of the Mother of God of Perpetual Help.

“2.20 am… no lights in the hospital, pnly candles, generator that did not want to start, but the best medical staff of SLAVUTY HOSPITAL… THANK YOU! We have a boy… ” wrote Fr. Yuriy.

The story is here.