There are times when we’re not just doing our work to educate others about Ukraine through Postcards to the Front. We’re also learning, through collaboration, such as a recent summer day at the Oshawa Museum, where the Holodomor National Awareness Bus Tour pulled in for two days of educational awareness about the Holodomor in Ukraine: famine-genocide by Stalin [the Soviet Union] between 1932-1933.

The Holodomor Mobile Classroom tours Canada to raise awareness of the Holodomor and to promote core Canadian values. A terrific example of the past meeting the present as the tour brings awareness of the Holodomor to tens of thousands of Canadians, demonstrating that lessons of this genocide are relevant in the world today.

We’re grateful to have been invited to set up Postcards to the Front for Holodomor Awareness visitors to write messages of support to Ukraine’s Defenders.

Click here to book the Holodomor Awareness bus at your school or in your community. You can also access virtual lessons, available here. There’s so much more on their website, Holodomor National Awareness Tour. Check it out! Follow on Facebook.

Let us know if you need some FREE cards to write to Defenders. Please encourage others to join in this project to boost morale at the front lines by reaching out at postcardstothefront.canada@gmail.com

Need ideas about what to write? Check our Tips page, and our Ukrainian phrases page.

Maybe you want to organize a group of family, friends or others to write postcards? Check our website for tips, How to Run a Postcard-Writing Workshop.

Consider a group effort this summer to help us with our Christmas in Summer campaign, so we can send a lot of messages of love and support in time for the festive year end. By then, it will be nearly four years that Ukrainians have been defending their homes, their land, their freedom.

And they don’t have to be ‘just’ Christmas cards. We welcome festive holiday greetings from all faiths. After all, not all Defenders practice a faith. Any card that carries a message of joy, a bit of light and hope, words of support, is especially welcome at year end. This will be a time when Defenders, of all faiths, or of none, will be especially missing their families and the comforts of home.

If you can get your festive season postcard messages to us by mid-October, they will arrive in plenty of time to arrive at the front lines before year end.

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