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A Sure Start for Displaced Children
Sure Start – a term familiar for many UK readers – is also the name of a Hungarian Interchurch Aid institution in the town of Berehove, Ukraine. The Sure Start Children’s House (Biztos Kezdet Gyerekház in Hungarian) was established four years ago to help single mothers in need. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, its…


SITUATION REPORT – 08 November 2022
HIA has reached 182,091 people so far, providing access to basic humanitarian aid, protection activities and other life-saving services both in Ukraine and in Hungary (updated with total MPCA and C4P figures). Reached out beneficiary number for the past two weeks: 8,393 people. HIA purchased and transported 57 metric tons of food, hygiene products to…


SITUATION REPORT – 24 MAY 2022
In the past 3 months, HIA has been able to continuously expand its assistance to new geographical regions and its humanitarian response has reached 98,944 people so far, providing emergency access to basic humanitarian aid, protection activities and other services both in Ukraine and in Hungary. Besides its current response, HIA is opening up its…


Guiding frontline communities through life’s legal challenges
A long, dusty road leads through the steppes of Kherson Oblast, leading to Zahradivka, a small agricultural village. The settlement is home to 406 residents, a combined shop and post office, a primary school and one support point – run by Hungarian Interchurch Aid (HIA) with financing from the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund (UHF). Upon arrival,…


Play areas for the kids living in the shelters of Ivano-Frankivsk
Thanks to the cooperation of Hungarian Interchurch Aid (HIA) and its local partner organisation, NGO ’Centre for Equal Opportunities’, new play areas have been added to 7 institutions supporting internally displaced people in the Ukrainian region of Ivano-Frankivsk. The child-friendly spaces set up in four community shelters and three medical clinics are designed to host…


Food & hygiene kits distributed in cooperation with Ukrainian Orthodox Church
In cooperation with the Bishopric of Uzhhorod in Zakarpattia of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Hungarian Interchurch Aid has delivered and distributed durable food and hygiene kits for more than 2500 internally displaced people living in and around Uzhhorod on 17 January. Most of them arrived to the westernmost region of Ukraine from the eastern, war-torn…
