Ukraine: Emergency aid for children and families
Enough to eat, a roof over your head, warm clothes and heating in winter, medication and medical care: it is the basic needs that millions of people in Ukraine still occupy. Even with the beginning of the fourth year of war - since Russia extended the entire Ukraine attack - the need for humanitarian aid and emergency aid does not break off.
The war has destroyed important infrastructures, interrupted access to electricity, heating, water and communication. According to UN statistics, 3.5 million people have fled within the country, more than 6 million outside of the national borders-the largest escape movement within Europe since World War II. More than 14 million people need humanitarian aid. About 20 percent are children
Many families who lived in villages and cities in the east and south are forced to leave everything back and flee to the safer vest. The pressure on economy and infrastructure is correspondingly large. Other families, especially people with restricted mobility or those families whose livelihood is coupled on the ground, are still in the fields near the front. They are often dependent on mobile emergency aid.
»Unfortunately, the need is still enormous to alleviate the immediate consequences of the war. It is always the very urgent basic need «
Camz, the "Committee of Medical Aid in Zakarpattya" is part of the Terre des Hommes Community project to "improve the protection of children in emergency situations in Ukraine through safe accommodation, provision of food and other goods as well as psychosocial support".
The goal: to improve the humanitarian situation of more than 80,000 war -damaged children and adolescents as well as their families and caregivers in Ukraine. Institutional care facilities - children's homes, hospitals, emergency shelters - are also supplied with urgently needed goods. In addition, offers of psychosocial support and dream help for children with war and refugees are built- from therapy places to game and leisure activities in safe, protected locations.
“I do everything that needs to be done: I pack food packages and distribute diapers and hygiene sets, sometimes I teach classes or help teachers and trainers during class with children.
I would like to say the young people in Cherson: It is better not to stay here now. But for the future, when they come back, I would like them to work with organizations like us to help others, especially those who suffered from the fire here. «
Dima helps with the "Kherson League of Social Workers" (partner VPLYV Fund) in the city of Cherson. He fled two years ago from the areas of Ukraine, which was now occupied by Russia.
The project is funded by the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany. Five partner organizations in Ukraine -Camz, VPLYV Fund, Numo, Silab Ukraine and Yellow and Blue Wings Fund -have come together and created effective emergency help structures and networks together with Childfund Germany and Terre des Hommes.
The project is able to adapt help quickly and effectively to the constantly changing realities of the war - and use opportunities if they offer themselves. A children's home in Vilscany recently could be supplied with a new heater in order to be prepared against the winter cold despite constant power failures. Children live in the home with severe physical and mental impairments - since 2022 more than 40 children and adolescents have been admitted from war zones.
In total, the project was able to help around 120,000 people in 21 regions of Ukraine in 2024. The project, originally planned for 12 months, was last extended by another year.
“It's still a fire. There is practically always an emergency need somewhere and we try to help people who need this help most urgently, ”summarizes Lesya Levko. "We thank everyone who supports Ukraine in this difficult time."
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