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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…


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…


Dog therapy, summer camps and adventures
Hungarian Interchurch Aid provides psychosocial support and good experiences to internally displaced children in Zakarpattia, Ukraine Immediately after the outbreak of war, the staff of the Berehove office of Hungarian Interchurch Aid started organising programmes for the internally displaced children looking for safety in the many community shelters of Zakarpattia region, located in the west…


3 MONTHS OF WAR IN UKRAINE
Three months have passed since Russian forces invaded Ukraine, and the war rages on ever-so-fiercely. Even though now active combat is limited to the Donbass, missile attacks and aerial raids create a constant danger for the population all over Ukraine. The war has caused immense pain and devastation, leaving millions of people without food, potable…


Light returns to Saltivka
Eerie and desolate: it’s hard to believe that Saltivka used to be the most densely populated not only in Kharkiv, but also in Ukraine. The war changed everything, the city was one of the first cities to face the attack of the invading Russian military. Results are clearly visible in the neighbourhood: even today, 80%…


Starting anew from scratch
Olha and Dmytro have lost everything but their lives. Fleeing a small mining town in Donetsk region, they ended up in a shelter for internally displaced in Bohuslav, Kyiv region, hundreds of miles from their now lost home. As time passed, the shelter conditions became unbearable for them and their two sons, aged 10 and…