At the handover ceremony in Uzhhorod, HIA delivered 34 buses that were previously serving in the fleet of Hungary’s national intercity bus operator, Volánbusz. Some of the buses were immediately sent to flooded Kherson Oblast, where they are being used for humanitarian evacuation following the Nova Kakhovka dam explosion.
Children need to be children – no matter the circumstances. Whether they are displaced within Ukraine, or had to flee their home country completely, HIA aims to bring respite to their life, making them forget – even if only for a day or two – that they are far away from the place they once…
The war in Ukraine has been ongoing for one and a half years now, with no end in sight. Millions have fled the country, many of them finding refuge in neighbouring Hungary – a country with a completely different language, strange customs and culture that puts refugees trying to establish their life here in a…
British aid organisation Christian Aid and Hungarian Interchurch Aid (HIA) are joined by their common efforts to help the people of Ukraine. The two organisations are closely cooperating in their response to the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine caused by the war. Funded by Christian Aid and the Disasters Emergency Committee, this first shipment of medicine…
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…
As an aid organisation present in Ukraine for 25 years, Hungarian Interchurch Aid (HIA) was able to immediately start its aid programme both in Ukraine and in Hungary. In a matter of days it set up refugee support points providing food and hygiene kits as well as information on both sides of the border, launched…
Hailing from the village of Kizomys in Kherson Oblast, the Zelinsky family led an almost idyllic life at the Dnipro estuary. Before the war, they dreamed about a big family trip, but this became reality for all the wrong reasons. Fleeing the occupation, the Zelinskys have lived in several shelters all over Western Ukraine before…