The International Committee of the Red Cross is working closely with the Ukrainian Red Cross Society to provide emergency assistance and support local hospitals and primary healthcare facilities with medical equipment.Ī staff member carries a pack of water bottles and a bottle of sunflower oil at the Zaporizhzhia regional office of the Ukrainian Red Cross Society. It suggests that a donation of £12 could help a victim of the violence access legal help or safe shelter. Save the Children is distributing essential supplies and winter kits of clothing and blankets, providing cash and financial assistance to families to meet basic needs such as food and medicines, and offering mental health support to children and their families. On the Slovakian border, PIN is supplying mobile toilets, building insulated tents for children and preparing food for people in the queues. Over the past week, this non-governmental, non-profit organisation has been sending trucks of durable food, hygiene items, nappies, sleeping bags, mats, and other goods into Lviv in western Ukraine to distribute to people locally. The charity Care International is providing emergency relief through its partner, People in Need, which is already working on the ground in the region. You can donate online by card or PayPal, as well as via the DEC appeal. Alongside supporting people in Ukraine, donations will help its teams on the Polish, Slovakian, Romanian, Hungarian, Moldovan and Lithuanian borders to provide accommodation, food, water and other aid items to refugees. The British Red Cross has its own appeal as well as being part of DEC.
Where possible, it is liaising with community leaders in Ukraine to assess their humanitarian needs and also delivering essential aid to internally displaced people. In Romania, it is providing advice on asylum procedures and is offering legal advice and psychological support through partners.Īt the border with Moldova, it is distributing essential relief items, including blankets, sleeping bags and hygiene items, and it is also working at the Slovakian and Hungarian borders. In Poland, it is providing new arrivals with information and legal services through a local legal partner.Ĭommunities around the UK have donated items for Ukrainian refugees. The UN Refugee Agency estimates that about 660,000 refugees have fled Ukraine to neighbouring countries. Here’s a roundup of what some of the other big aid charities are doing. Other charities have also launched appeals and continue to need public support. You can donate at a Post Office, as well as directly. This is one of the best appeals to give to because if you donate via the main DEC Ukraine appeal every pound given by the UK public to the DEC is matched by the government, up to the value of £20m.
At times of crisis, the DEC brings together 15 leading UK aid charities (including the British Red Cross, Cafod, Care International and Save the Children UK) to raise funds quickly and efficiently. Earlier this week, the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) launched a Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal to raise funds for food, water, medicine, protection and trauma care for people fleeing the war.
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