Mustard Seed Relief Mission

Mustard Seed Relief Mission is an Eastbourne based Christian charity supplying humanitarian aid to refugees, orphans, and displaced persons, mostly to Romania, Moldavia and Ukraine, but also in certain establishments in Britain. The work began in 1991 at the beginning of the balkan war, and the charity has maintaned a continuous flow of aid to the refugees in Bosnia and Croatia. More recently Moldavia, Romania and Ukraine.

In addition to routine humanitarian aid, each Christmas since 1992 the charity has operated the "Love-in-a-Box" appeal. In which people throughout the country are invited to pack shoeboxes with Christmas gifts for children. These are then loaded and transported by Mustard Seed to areas of need, and distributed by personnel. In 2004, just over 45,000 shoeboxes were handed out in this way, in schools, churches, refugess camps, orphanages and hospitals in Romania, Moldovia and Ukraine.

March 05/03/2010

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Lisa Smart - Director of Mustard Seed

On a recent visit to the Ukraine Lisa Smart, Director of Mustard Seed Relief Mission in Eastbourne was presented with an award by the Ukrainian Government. The award was presented by Alexander Phedotovich who is the Deputy of State for all the charitable work the charity has undertaken for the disadvantaged children of the Ukraine.

Lisa Smart said ‘This was a lovely gesture of the Ukrainian Government. Nobody takes part in charity work to be praised but it was a very gracious gesture of the Government to say ‘Thank you’. To have our charity recognised in such a way was a real honour. Over the past two years the charity has worked hard for the children who live in the orphanages and I accepted the award on behalf of everybody who is involved and works so hard for the charity’

It is Mustard Seeds intention to continue to work with the Administration to help improve the lives of the children.