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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Fostering resilience in a community shelter for displaced people

August 9, 2024August 21, 2024

As the war goes on in its third year, Ukrainian civil society organisations do everything they can to support the people suffering from it. Believing in the power of community, Hungarian Interchurch Aid – in cooperation with Ukraine Response Consortium partners World Vision and ACTED and with financial backing from USAID, have introduced community-based grants…

Back to life: shelter renovation in Vynohradiv

November 4, 2022February 16, 2024

For the past 8 months, Zakarpattia in the west of Ukraine has been the safest area in the war-torn country. For this reason, it is not surprising that tens of thousands of internally displaced people have found refuge and safety here and continue to do so in surges as military operations intensify. But security is…

International Forum Created to Coordinate Humanitarian Work in Ukraine

June 22, 2022June 24, 2022

Representatives of eleven international aid organisations operating in Ukraine met in Budapest at the initiative of Hungarian Interchurch Aid. At the conference – held at the headquarters of HIA – members of ACT Alliance, a group of church-based aid organisations – gathered to share their experiences of the first four months of the war and…

Situation Report – 6 September 2023

September 6, 2023October 13, 2023

During the past 19 months HIA purchased and transported 2,196,914 kg of food, non-food and hygiene items to Ukraine HIA has reached 520,336 people so far, providing access to basic humanitarian aid, protection activities and other life-saving services in Ukraine and Hungary. In Vynohradiv, HIA completed the renovation of the dormitory of a former school….

Situation Report – 10 October 2022

October 11, 2022October 11, 2022

HIA has reached 160,575 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 1068 tons of aid since the beginning of the war, during the reporting period more than 1 ton of food was carried to Ukraine from…

HIA hosts conference on humanitarian perspectives in Ukraine

March 14, 2025March 15, 2025

On March 13, Hungarian Interchurch Aid hosted a key event to discuss ongoing humanitarian efforts in Ukraine. With speakers from different areas, including Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Levente Magyar, representatives of the ACT Alliance, UNHCR and the European Commission, the event aimed to assess the crisis and explore solutions. The event began…