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On the Spot: Newsletter from the Americas – June 2022
Our bi-monthly e-newsletter On the Spot highlights important updates from our programs and from our organizational network. If you’re already signed up, it’ll be in your inbox, if not, you can sign up here! Thanks for reading.
100 Days of War in Ukraine
Watch this moving video that shows how impactful your support has been in Ukraine. Together with the Order of Malta and over 14,500 volunteers in Ukraine and in border countries, we are in it for the long haul.
100 days later, Ukraine is still at war. In over 52 towns and communities around Ukraine, Malteser International, the Order of Malta, and its partners on the ground, continue to deliver aid and relief to those who have been affected by the conflict – hard pressed to find anyone who isn’t.
With your support, we have been able to deliver approximately 4,680 tons of supplies like sanitary products, blankets, medicinal supplies, and much-needed food to the most vulnerable in and around the country.
Focusing on medical aid, Malteser Ukraine’s Pavlo Titko tells us that in places like “Kharkiv, hospitals are currently lacking everything…all support is urgently needed.”
Board Dispatch: A Visit to La Guajira Highlights Our Commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals
For this edition of On the Spot, MI Americas board member Marissa del Rosario-Blackett, DM took an in-depth look at how our long-term development programs in Colombia sync with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
“Seeing the UN’s SDGs become reality gave me a deeper appreciation for the value of each goal and why achieving them is critical for realizing the world we want — a world where no one is left behind,” she says. “Through their collective implementation, MI Americas is not only making possible the promotion of peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, above all, we are helping to give joy, hope, and integrity to those the Sovereign Order of Malta is called to serve — the poor and the suffering.”
How Surya, Age 8, Raises the Bar for Community Fundraising
Even small, community-led efforts can have a big impact down the line – and that’s exactly what Surya Swaraj Konijeti has done in her hometown of San Diego, California.
As eight-year-old Surya and her parents watched the news one night in early March, she couldn’t help but notice the scenes from Ukraine, and how children her age were living a frightfully different reality. She wanted to help but took the night to think how she could be most helpful.
The next day, she told her parents she wanted to set up a lemonade stand and give the profits to help efforts on the ground in Ukraine.
“I saw people suffering and I wanted to help get them food, water, blankets, and medical supplies. I wanted more people to stay alive,” she says.
Malteser International Americas Welcomes New Board Member: John F. X. Reilly, KM
As of April 1st, Reilly joins us from the Order of Malta Federal Association, replacing former MI Americas President and Board Member, Maj. Gen. Tom Wessels, KM, who will remain on the Board as Director Emeritus.
