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…
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…
Yulia’s past two and half years have been particularly difficult, even for Ukrainian standards. She endured occupation, then their house in Oleshky was flooded, and they lost almost all of their belongings. Finally, she was able to flee with her family through 3 countries before returning to Kherson oblast, only a couple of kilometres from…
The large Mazuniny family has experienced war from way too close. Having lived their whole lives in Khersonska Oblast, the challenges they’ve faced made them both stick together as a family and cling to their place of origin. In their struggle to survive and to live a life as close to normal as possible, the…
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…
Holding 8-month-old Mykyta in her arms in the courtyard of a residential building, Yulia’s vision for the future is considerably better now than a couple months before. Displaced to Kamianske, Dnipropetrovs’k Oblast from her native Volnovakha, she applied for cash assistance provided by the Ukraine Response Consortium-partner Hungarian Interchurch Aid (HIA). Her lack of savings…
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…
“Oh, Angel, embrace us with your wings, Mother of God, bless all with your compassion, In our families, let there be love and esteem, To friends, always pay enough attention. Give us lasting health and contentment, Provide us with well-being, peace and happiness, Of our heart, make a residence of kindness.” This is what Lydia…
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…
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…