Six months of assistance on report

August 24, 2022August 29, 2022

Hungarian Interchurch Aid (HIA) has been active in Ukraine since the establishment of the organisation in 1991. It has been scaling up its Ukrainian work since the outbreak of the 2014 conflict. With the onset of war on 24 February, HIA immediately started to prepare its response both in Ukraine and in Hungary. Now, half a year later we’d like to present you with this report on our efforts in this humanitarian crisis, accompanied by selected stories from the field.

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A friend in need – Serhiy & Anatoliy

November 18, 2024November 19, 2024

A long, dusty road leads through the steppes of Kherson Oblast: it brings us to Zahradivka, a small agricultural village. The settlement has 406 residents, one shop-post office, a primary school and one support point – run by Hungarian Interchurch Aid (HIA) with financing from the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund (UHF). Here, various services and types…

Starting anew from scratch

March 1, 2023February 16, 2024

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…

HIA hands over buses for Kherson evacuation to Ukrainian authorities

June 9, 2023February 16, 2024

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.

HIA has opened a humanitarian office in Lemberg

March 10, 2022May 9, 2022

The staff of the Hungarian organization also agreed on the assistance with the deputy mayor of the strategically important Ukrainian metropolis and several regional representatives. According to the city’s deputy mayor, there were no discussion about the support of the city with foreign professional aid organizations so far and no UN coordination was established. The…

Situation Report – 7 September 2022

September 7, 2022September 7, 2022

HIA has reached 143,552 people so far, providing emergency access to basic humanitarian aid, protection activities and other life-saving services both in Ukraine and in Hungary. In Hungary, HIA distributed school supplies for refugee families as their kids enrol in Hungarian schools. In Zakarpattia HIA continued its in-kind support assistance (distribution of food, non-food items,…

Situation Report – 14 June 2022

June 14, 2022June 15, 2022

HIA has reached 108,003 people so far, providing emergency access to basic humanitarian aid, protection activities and other services both in Ukraine and in Hungary. Soon to open HIA Refugee Support and Integration Centre in Budapest will provide assistance to refugees from Ukraine through various services (in-kind support, social work, accommodation referral, labour market programmes,…