It has been more than two years since the escalation of the Russian-Ukrainian armed conflict. After getting over the initial shock of the new war reality, Ukrainian civilians are learning to live amid hostilities.
One of the most important tasks of the ICRC is to provide the affected population with necessary supplies to cover their basic needs such as food, hygiene parcels, and building materials to rehabilitate damaged homes.
Pavlo Karahezian moved to Ukraine's Kherson region almost 40 years ago and has long come to call this country his home. All these years, the man has been working the soil, living off it, and, as he says, has put down roots here a long time ago.
As part of an agricultural support program of the ICRC mission in Ukraine, the man received a greenhouse, seeds, an irrigation system and money to have it installed. Besides growing the usual vegetables to provide food or for sale, he also wants to use the greenhouse to grow flowers to give them away.
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