Recently, a delegation from the Santa Clara Monastery Foundation, led by director Lucia Karam, visited Ukraine.
The Spanish philanthropists visited the training and medical facilities of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, where they met with wounded soldiers undergoing treatment and rehabilitation, as well as with medical staff. The foundation's director also spoke with border guards in training and blessed them.
The delegation brought humanitarian aid for the Ukrainian border guards, including two off-road vehicles, generators, and power banks.
Additionally, accompanied by Sister Lucia Karam Padilla, the head of the Santa Clara Monastery Foundation, three border guards who sustained mine and explosive injuries while performing combat tasks against Russian aggression were sent to Spain for treatment.
These soldiers will undergo medical care and rehabilitation in Spanish healthcare facilities. Among them is a serviceman from the Luhansk border unit, who suffered multiple shrapnel wounds from a Russian artillery strike in early 2024 in a settlement in Donetsk region; a soldier from the Lviv border unit, who was injured in early 2023 by a mine explosion in Kyiv region; and a border guard from the Sumy unit, who sustained a mine injury while carrying out tasks on the Sumy front.
It is worth noting that the Santa Clara Monastery Foundation has long supported border guards, providing not only spiritual support but also organizing rest for border guard cadets, facilitating rehabilitation in medical facilities in Spain, and delivering humanitarian aid to border units and medical establishments.
