09/12/2025
🎄 Wonderful Christmas Gathering for Ukrainian Refugees 🎄(🇫🇴 niðanfyri)
On Sunday, 30 November, the Red Cross hosted a wonderfully cosy and successful Christmas gathering at the FSF facilities in Gundadalur. More than 30 Ukrainians – adults, children, and their friends – took part, and the atmosphere was truly excellent. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves 💛
The event offered coffee, tea, hot chocolate, Christmas sweets, and mandarins, along with homemade baked goods brought by Ukrainians. FSF gave an engaging presentation about opportunities in sports and leisure activities, and participants also had the chance to try ball games and relays. We also focused on cultural exchange, organising a festive quiz about Ukrainian and Faroese Christmas traditions. Afterwards, everyone headed to the creative corner to make their own Christmas decorations to take home. The gathering ended with a lovely Christmas dinner, ris a la mande, and – of course – the traditional almond gift 'mandlugáva'.
Throughout the day, it was clear how important it is for participants to have access to activities that give them a break from heavy thoughts and the difficult realities they continue to carry with them – both because their home country remains in crisis, where family and friends live in the midst of it, and because they themselves live with uncertainty here in the Faroe Islands, where no one knows how long they will be allowed to stay. They are living on borrowed time, and it shows in their daily lives. That is why moments like these truly matter. 💛
We would like to thank everyone who took part, participants and volunteers - and especially FSF and the UEFA Foundation for Children for their support.
Through FSF, the UEFA Foundation for Children is also supporting the Red Cross Faroe Islands’ Summer Camp this year and next year, and we are deeply grateful for this valuable and meaningful support.
Thank you wholeheartedly for a wonderful day – and Merry Christmas! ❤️🤍
🎄 Væl eydnaður jólahugni fyri ukrainskum flóttafólkum 🎄
Sunnudagin 30. november høvdu vit ein serstakliga hugnaligan og væleydnaðan jólahugna í hølunum hjá FSF í Gundadali. Fleiri enn 30 ukrainar, vaksin og børn, og vinir teirra luttóku – og stemningurin var framúr góður. Øll tóktust veruliga at hugna sær 💛
Til tiltakið varð bjóðað kaffi, te, kakao, jólakaramellur og mandarinir, umframt heimabakstur, sum ukrainar høvdu við. FSF helt eina spennandi framløgu um møguleikar í ítrótti og frítíðarvirksemi, og luttakararnir sluppu eisini at royna bóltspæl og stafettir. Eisini var dentur lagdur á mentanarbýti, har skipað varð fyri eini jólaligari spurnakapping um ukrainskar og føroyskar jólasiðir. Síðani fóru øll í kreativa hornið og gjørdu sínar egnu jóladekoratiónir at taka við heim. Jólahugnin endaði við einum góðum jóladøgurða, mandlurísi og – sjálvsagt – mandlugávu.
Á degnum sást eisini greitt, hvussu týdningarmikið tað er fyri luttakararnar at sleppa til virksemi, har tey fáa ein steðg frá tungum tankum og tí álvarsama veruleikanum, tey framvegis bera við sær – bæði tí heimland teirra er í kreppu, har familja og vinir liva mitt í tí, og tí tey sjálvi liva í óvissu her í Føroyum, har eingin veit, hvussu leingi tey sleppa at verða verandi. Tey liva í lántari tíð, og tað merkist í gerandisdegnum. Tí hava slíkar løtur veruliga stóran týdning. 💛
Vit vilja takka øllum, ið vóru við, luttakarar og sjálvboðin - og serliga FSF - The Faroe Islands Football Association og UEFA Foundation for Children fyri stuðulin.
UEFA Foundation for Children, umvegis FSF, stuðlar eisini Summarleguni hjá Reyða Krossi Føroya í ár og komandi ár, og vit eru sera takksom fyri henda góða og týðandi stuðul.
Hjartaliga takk fyri ein sera góðan dag – og gleðilig jól! ❤️🤍
