Voluntary dining room in Borodyanka 

The only surviving administrative building of Borodyanka united all public, social, administrative and even legal forms of community life. Today, all administrative and law enforcement agencies are located in the premises of the Borodyan Academic Lyceum, and the doors of the only public institution opened there - a volunteer canteen, where anyone can get a delicious hot lunch every day, 5 days a week.
The creation of Borodyanska canteen was a joint idea of representatives of the volunteer movement and caring representatives of the local community. The PAG volunteer team and benefactors restored the work of the lyceum canteen, which at that time became the only place for public catering in Borodyanka, with their own efforts.
We fed the military, representatives of the State Emergency Service, the administration, law enforcement officers and the local community, people who lost almost everything in this war.
Every day our team prepared more than half a thousand hot lunches and every day this number grew.
Our team consists of people of various professions in peacetime and several professional cooks, all of whom did everything possible and, sometimes, impossible to improve the life of the local community. Most of us lost our jobs and sources of income, but continued to devote ourselves fully to volunteer activities with faith in the Great Victory.
Aware of all the complexities of today's Ukraine, we were constantly looking for opportunities to be even more efficient and bigger. Our large team was in constant search of products (meat, cereals, vegetables), household chemicals for cleaning the premises, the necessary additional equipment and even the usual napkins. We needed transport for our team so that every day more than 20 people could go to the kitchen along the Kyiv-Borodyanka-Kyiv route. A separate problem was fuel for cars, the main thing - its absence at gas stations, the second - the price.
But boys and girls continue to prepare, collect aid, distribute it where it is most needed. This war is terrible and merciless. But she united us and made us one family, and on her behalf we thank everyone for your support and for being by our side and keeping us in line!
About our warm family:
PAG public organization: Olga Mykolyuk, Serhii Bormotov, Oleksandr Ugnivenko, Oleksandr Tsegolnyk – logistics, supply, fuel, administrative support.
Dariya Sayed Charitable Foundation: Anastasia Karpeeva, Dariya Sayed and their big team of warm hearts, warm hands and bright faces. In general, more than one and a half thousand hot dinners (up to 950 per day) were prepared for our compatriots every day.
But, all this could not have happened if the hearts of many wonderful people - volunteers, public organizations, charitable funds, private donors from Ukraine and the whole world - were not beating next to us, without whom the existence of our Dining Room would be impossible!

Provision of humanitarian needs

On February 24, 2022, Ukraine experienced a military aggression unprecedented in its cruelty and scale since the Second World War. Russian troops began, in the literal sense of the word, to physically destroy Ukrainian cities along with their population.
Almost from the first days of the full-scale invasion, our organization joined the spontaneously created volunteer centers throughout the country, which worked in almost all directions.
Our team joined the humanitarian and material support of the communities that were most affected by the occupying forces around Kyiv: Chernihiv, Sumy, and Kharkiv regions.
Providing our military on the front lines, who also needed humanitarian and material support, became a separate challenge.
During four months of active participation, members of our team drove tens of thousands of kilometers on Ukrainian roads, transported tens of tons of cargo, which provided food, drinking water, clothing, hygiene products and material and technical equipment.
It was especially important to supply fodder for animals to regions where logistics were completely destroyed due to active hostilities.
Search, load, unload, sort, load again, road, return. Our team constantly lived in this mode. It is difficult for us to say how much we did in these months, because no one counted. All of us, together with the whole country, were approaching the time of liberation of the Ukrainian land.