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Who are we?

Our Daily Bread helps people in Ukraine to move forward and care for each other in their local communities. We do this by supporting grassroots projects for children and youth, psychosocial resilience, livelihoods and team building. These projects are implemented by Ukrainian churches and strengthen the social cohesion of local communities.

War Trauma:

Help Ukrainian Children Recover

20 adults trained in trauma-sensitive care.
40 children are given a safe space to begin recovery.
5 adults prepared to expand Jacaranda in Ukraine.

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Our vision

Our Daily Bread supports the work of local churches that help people in vulnerable situations. We work with churches because they are reliable, understand people’s needs, listen carefully, give good advice and work well with other organizations to strengthen the social fabric of the communities they serve. Like farmers, they water the soil of their communities with our Drops of Hope projects. These drops fill the cracks in the soil with moisture to help the little plants (people the churches help and develop a relationship with) grow their roots deeper (take responsibility, move forward, and hopefully learn to give and not just take). If those little plants mature, they will bear fruit, and new seeds will be planted (i.e. the people who receive help will contribute more to the flourishing of their communities).

How we work

Our Daily Bread works in close cooperation with local partners and we work together as equals. Projects evolve through a co-creation process with our partners. We listen carefully to their needs, observe what they do and ask critical questions. As a Christian charity, we tread the delicate line between, on the one hand, investing in projects according to sound business principles and, on the other, prayerfully considering with our partners what the wisest course of action would be. We pursue an adaptable strategy and maintain short lines of communication. This allows us to respond rapidly and effectively in the highly volatile situation in Ukraine.

You can read more about our project approach in the document Our way of working.

Teenager club in Lyman

Children’s Club in Oleksandrivka

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What we do

Our Daily Bread supports grassroots projects for kids & youth, psychosocial resilience, livelihoods and team building.

All these projects are part of our Drops of Hope programme.

Our history

Rehabilitation centre clients Bakhmut

Our Daily Bread was established in May 2020 to help churches in Ukraine develop grassroots community that enable people to stand on their own two feet. Several projects were realised in Bakhmut (Donbas region) and Sumy (Northeast Ukraine) before the outbreak of the full-scale war on 24 February 2022.

During the first few months of the war (spring 2022), we helped our partners to provide emergency relief in Bakhmut, Barvinkove and Sumy. Our Daily Bread offered a vital lifeline for many people in the initial weeks of the war when little emergency relief got through to Eastern Ukraine.

Evacuation of people from Bakhmut

By May 2022, far more aid began to reach Eastern Ukraine and most of the people who were able to flee had left. Therefore it was time for a change of direction: Drops of Hope.

Initially, our focus was frontline areas in Eastern Ukraine. In September 2024, we thoroughly evaluated our work. We concluded that in frontline areas, we could not help people to develop a healthy mindset, which is one of our key objectives. Therefore Our Daily Bread now works in places in Ukraine where we can help people develop a healthy mindset and enable their communities to flourish.