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“Stay strong, stay together and help eachother”
In Blahodatne, war quickly became reality once Russian forces rolled in from Kherson on their way to occupy Southern Ukraine. With them came all the terrible side effects of war: killing, damage and destruction from the air and from the ground. Olga was there to witness her home being shelled, and thanks to the Ukraine…


1 year of assistance on report
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…


Displaced children find solace at Point Camp
In the village of Vyshka in Zakarpattia, Western Ukraine, kids’ laughter echoes through the deep valley. The youthful cheers can be attributed to the displaced children between ages 6 to 16 who gathered at Hungarian Interchurch Aid’s autumn camp in the Carpathian Mountains. With ACT Alliance’s support, experiences of carefree childhood and mental healing are…


What’s cooking in Zmiiv?
“I get eight thousand hryvnias (about 200 euros) after two kids. I have to cook separately for my younger son for health reasons, and I can see my daughter has psychological problems after all that we have gone through,” says Natalia when explaining how she tries to look after her children. The situation of the…


Love never harms
Love never harms – this was the message of the workshop held on 30 August in Lumen Café Budapest by the Crisis Clinic of the Support Centre for Ukrainian Refugees(UMTK) for refugee women living in our country. Here, psychologist Judit Hirsch spoke to thirty participants about the nature of trauma, while Balázs Rácsok, the director…


Continuous presence and successive aid operations in flooded Kherson Oblast
The first, 20-ton consignment of emergency aid has already arrived to the frontline city of Kherson. HIA’s next relief operations will also focus on the phase after the water recedes, to facilitate restoration of normal life with the donation of water pumps and electric generators. Barnabas Szatmári, Hungarian Interchurch Aid’s Emergency Response Director in Ukraine…