1 year of assistance on report

February 22, 2023March 26, 2025

Hungarian Interchurch Aid (HIA) is a member of ACT Alliance with an active presence in Ukraine dating back to 1998. Having established country-wide operations in 2014, in February 2022 HIA has doubled down on its efforts to provide help to the victims of the war – both in Hungary and Ukraine. From tangible, in-kind aid to cash assistance, community-based relief and protection activities, HIA’s response to this crisis is multisectoral and flexible. In the first year of the conflict, HIA has implemented its aid programme in 20 regions of Ukraine. Often operating in hard-to-reach areas, HIA’s help reaches beneficiaries from westernmost Zakarpattia to Kharkiv in the East and Kherson in the South.

Find out more about our work in Ukraine by reading our 1-year report. In the document we aim to explain each of HIA’s modalities of assistance, accompanied by selected stories from the field. You can read the publication online on Issuu below by clicking the middle of the image, or download the whole report from the bottom of the page.

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Those who don’t make the news – City of ghosts

October 4, 2022February 16, 2024

While the world looks to the newly liberated areas of eastern Ukraine, little is said about those who have been destitute since the first day of the war and whose situation has changed little. The combat events in the Kharkiv region can only mask the hardships endured for more than half a year by the…

Love never harms

September 8, 2023February 16, 2024

Love never harms – this was the message of the workshop held on 30 August in Lumen Café Budapest by the Crisis Clinic of the Support Centre for Ukrainian Refugees(UMTK) for refugee women living in our country. Here, psychologist Judit Hirsch spoke to thirty participants about the nature of trauma, while Balázs Rácsok, the director…

Value of HIA’s humanitarian aid programme approaches €25 million at the six-months-mark

August 24, 2022August 29, 2022

As an aid organisation present in Ukraine for 25 years, Hungarian Interchurch Aid (HIA) was able to immediately start its aid programme both in Ukraine and in Hungary. In a matter of days it set up refugee support points providing food and hygiene kits as well as information on both sides of the border, launched…

SITUATION REPORT – 03 MAY 2022

May 3, 2022May 9, 2022

Week 16, HIA visited Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Bucha, Borodianka, Irpin and Hlibivka to strengthen cooperation with local partners and to expand partnership network in Eastern Ukraine. In many cases HIA was the first humanitarian aid organization who visited the settlements and provided immediate life-saving humanitarian aid to the inhabitants. Cooperation agreements were signed with municipalities of…

Two years of assistance on report: HIA’s response in Ukraine & Hungary

February 21, 2024February 19, 2025

Committed towards helping the war-affected people of Ukraine, HIA is implementing the largest aid programme of its history. In our 2-year report below, we aim to present the achievments of the response, while explaining each of HIA’s modalities of assistance, accompanying them with the voices of our beneficiaries. As an introduction, please read László Lehel,…

Situation Report – 7 September 2022

September 7, 2022September 7, 2022

HIA has reached 143,552 people so far, providing emergency access to basic humanitarian aid, protection activities and other life-saving services both in Ukraine and in Hungary. In Hungary, HIA distributed school supplies for refugee families as their kids enrol in Hungarian schools. In Zakarpattia HIA continued its in-kind support assistance (distribution of food, non-food items,…