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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Situation Report – 16 August 2023

August 17, 2023October 13, 2023

Many villages along the Dnieper River no longer have access to drinking water as a result of the explosion of the Kakhova Dam. Drinking water was distributed by HIA and its local implementation partner Zlatograd Foundation to 2,068 families, reaching 3,320 persons (including 104 PwDs). During the past 18 months HIA purchased and transported 2,196,039…

A dignified way to help through uncertainty

November 22, 2022February 16, 2024

The humanitarian crisis in Ukraine is getting worse by the day. The number of people in need is increasing as the possibilities to earn a living decrease and countrywide power cuts grow longer. The future is bleak in times when so many in Ukraine have only humanitarian assistance to rely on. The attacks on the…

Renovating shelters and homes in Ukraine’s war-ravaged South

April 28, 2023February 16, 2024

Blue jackets in the governor’s office: HIA Emergency Response Director Barnabás Szatmári met with Oleksandr Prokudin, head of Kherson Regional Military Administration to discuss results, ongoing projects and possibilities of further assistance. On their trip to Southern Ukraine the HIA team assessed the state of public infrastructure such as schools, public institutions and their shelters…

SITUATION REPORT – 08 November 2022

November 8, 2022November 8, 2022

HIA has reached 182,091 people so far, providing access to basic humanitarian aid, protection activities and other life-saving services both in Ukraine and in Hungary (updated with total MPCA and C4P figures). Reached out beneficiary number for the past two weeks: 8,393 people. HIA purchased and transported 57 metric tons of food, hygiene products to…

Cash support eases pain for elderly displaced

May 29, 2024July 26, 2024

Kamianske – a regional town in central Ukraine – has become a refuge for internally displaced people from Eastern Ukraine. Often leaving behind everything, displaced people are forced to rebuild their lives from scratch. Fleeing occupied Horlivka, 72-year-old Halyna and her two grandchildren, Oleksiy and Misha continue to struggle to make ends meet. Rent, growing…

“We cannot leave those, who have been forsaken by everyone else”

June 23, 2022February 16, 2024

Incoming news about life under Russian occupation in Ukraine are increasingly worrisome, civilians stranded in such territories speak of harsh living conditions, shortages and deprivation, as well as other difficulties. Against all odds, Olha Fomenko is trying to carry on with her humanitarian work in the Russian-occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region of Southern Ukraine….