Handled the graves of strangers’ grandparents

For the third time, Evelina Viktorija Žemikytė invited the people of the neighborhood to help in the quarter of these cemeteries, where the inhabitants of the boarding house were rested.

Over 30 people came to the help. It was not the first such talc in this cemetery, and they were organized the first twice before the Halloween.

« More helpers gathered in the autumn, maybe because the mood was different before November 1st. Most of the graves of the grandparents’ home-unattended, barely crossed or even falling down from the ground. Organizer.

Parents with their children came to the help, some of the neighbors’ offspring brought. These were not only people living nearby, but also families from Vėžaičiai and Kretingale.

Photo by L. Penkova Žemeikienė

It was not the first such talc in this cemetery, and they were organized the first twice before the Halloween.

A true example of family strength and special intergenerational connection was a great -grandfather with a teenager. They have handled the graves unattended for the second time.

Inviting EV Žemikytė to help the helpers should have a rake, a garbage bag, a moss to cut off the tombstones.

Who could have brought grave land, frost -free plants.

After a few hours of work, this cemetery quarter shone with new colors.

Scouts and young shooters participated in the first care.

EV Žemikytė said she was visiting the graves of her grandparents in this cemetery, walking around the huge cemetery not only to the individual abandoned graves, but also to less frequently visited chapels throughout the quarter. This is how the idea of ​​bringing together strangers, but of goodwill united, was born.

The project « Civic Initiative in the Klaipėda Region » daily « Klaipeda » 2025 is partially funded by the Media Support Fund. EUR 6,000.