 A year passed before the Soviet government gave official permission for the international Mennonites to conduct relief work among the villages of Ukraine.Kitchens provided 25,000 people a day with rations over a period of three years beginning in 1922, with a peak of 40,000 servings during August of that year.Fifty Fordson tractor and plow combinations were sent to Mennonite villages to replace horses that had been stolen and confiscated during the war.