More than 150,000 Ukrainian refugees have come to the U.S. since the start of the war, many of them are families with school-age children. 

Their children have seen firsthand the horrors of war. Many have left behind their fathers who were mandatorily conscripted as soldiers, or they’ve watched missiles fly over their heads on their escape from their beloved homeland. 

Today, one of the best environments in the U.S. for these refugee children and families to receive support are in Ukrainian Catholic Schools. 

Catholic Extension has worked alongside the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the U.S. since 1979.  Today, their Ukrainian Catholic schools desperately need our help to educate and serve refugee children arriving to the U.S., to provide a place where they can heal, study and thrive.

These schools operate on a shoestring budget and struggle to help the refugee families that have arrived with nothing.