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Among the first to bring aid to liberated Kherson
THE 30-TONNE AID CONSIGNMENT MADE UP OF READY-TO-EAT FOOD, WATER AND HYGIENE PRODUCTS REACHED THE FRONTLINE CITY’S DEPRIVED POPULATION Hungarian Interchurch Aid (HIA) was among the first international aid organisations to bring aid to the recently liberated city on the frontline. Kherson was cut off from all utility networks after Russian troops withdrew, leaving the…


Refugee Stories: Irina
Irina (31) is a trained nurse, who – together with her two children – lives with 100 other refugees in the Batiovo refugee shelter in Transcarpathia. They receive three meals a day in the establishment, which is heated and equipped with hot and cold running water, as well as mattresses and blankets. It is one…


Freedom under missiles is still better than living in fear
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…


Situation Report – 14 June 2022
HIA has reached 108,003 people so far, providing emergency access to basic humanitarian aid, protection activities and other services both in Ukraine and in Hungary. Soon to open HIA Refugee Support and Integration Centre in Budapest will provide assistance to refugees from Ukraine through various services (in-kind support, social work, accommodation referral, labour market programmes,…


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…


SITUATION REPORT – 09 AUGUST 2022
HIA has reached 129035 people so far, providing emergency access to basic humanitarian aid, protection activities and other life-saving services both in Ukraine and in Hungary. HIA transported almost 6 metric tons of medicine from Hungary to Ukraine, namely to Ivano-Frankivsk, Berehovo, Uzhhorod and Lviv. In Lviv Oblast, HIA started to work with 10 new…