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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…


Firewood to the host communities providing for internally displaced people in Zakarpattia
Hungarian Interchurch Aid, member of ACT Alliance is providing a grant of 2 million hryvnias to the region’s forestry department to purchase 3,000 cubic metres of firewood. As part of the preparations for the heating season, János Gerevich, head of Hungarian Interchurch Aid’s branch office in Ukraine, Viktor Mikita, Governor of Zakarpattia and Vitaliy Petrenko…


First day of school overshadowed by the marks of war
Many settlements in the areas where war left its ugly mark are now safe enough to return to. That is, if there is a place to return to. Still many continue to live in community shelters, container homes and other temporary accommodation. This is the environment in which many of the children have to prepare…


Back to life: shelter renovation in Vynohradiv
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…


“We will survive these difficult times”
Hungarian Interchurch Aid is supporting the people of the settlements flooded by the Nova Kakhovka dam explosion with successive aid operations. Thanks to its constant presence in the region since its liberation in November last year, HIA has been able to respond immediately to the needs that have arisen following the catastrophe. The first aid consignment…


The Plight of the Zahal’tsi School
On his visit to Kyiv, president-director of Hungarian Interchurch Aid László Lehel announced the renovation of a school in the war-affected municipality of Borodyanka. Our colleagues visited the school in the village of Zahal’tsi and met with the school director, Katerina Vasilievna. What is common in all occupied areas in the Kyiv region is that…
