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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SITUATION REPORT – 26 OCTOBER 2022

October 26, 2022October 26, 2022

As Kharkiv has been partially liberated, HIA’s senior staff visited the region at the end of September to assess the security environment and gain greater insight into heating and power supply, job opportunities and care, and residential moves. They also visited locations like Saltivka, Zolochiv, Pervomaysky to map up programming based on their initial findings….

SITUATION REPORT – 24 AUGUST 2022

August 24, 2022August 29, 2022

HIA has reached 135,216 people so far, providing emergency access to basic humanitarian aid, protection activities and other life-saving services both in Ukraine and in Hungary. HIA has already transported 1064 tons of aid to Ukraine since the beginning of the war. In Hungary HIA helped for more than 5000 refugees in the last two…

Freedom under missiles is still better than living in fear

January 12, 2023February 16, 2024

The liberation of Kherson came at a price. Upon their withdrawal from the port city in southern Ukraine, the Russian invaders cut Kherson off from public services depriving the tens of thousands of residents of electricity, heating and running water. Free as it is, the city now faces ever-increasing artillery strikes from the other, still-occupied…

Immediate relief to evacuees following Nova Kakhovka dam explosion

June 6, 2023March 28, 2024

With the explosion and following spillover of the Dnipro dam at Nova Kakhovka a humanitarian disaster threatens several towns, villages and Kherson city itself. Local government officials claim that 16 thousand people are affected by the resulting flooding. Evacuation has begun and HIA humanitarians are distributing 350 emergency aid kits to those fleeing rising water…

Situation Report – 12 July 2023

July 13, 2023July 13, 2023

Since the beginning of the war, 178 generators have been delivered to Ukraine by HIA During the past 17 months HIA purchased and transported 2,174,888 kg of food, non-food and hygiene items to Ukraine HIA has continued the distribution of the vouchers in Hungary, reaching 1,065 refugees since the end of March 2023. HIA has…

A warm shelter for winter

March 27, 2023February 16, 2024

Hungarian Interchurch Aid has been supporting winterization initiatives. Possible by the sponsorship of Christian Aid, HIA’s long-time partner has implemented the window replacement of kindergartens in the township of Pervomai’skyi, where one-third of the population is internally displaced. The most vulnerable have found refuge in the educational institutions supported by the local authorities. Alona still…