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Ukraine
Why are we in Ukraine? More than two years into the conflict, approximately 10 million Ukrainians have been displaced by fighting, with an estimated 4 million people internally displaced and living under makeshift circumstances around the country. Concern is supporting the humanitarian needs of internally-displaced people in a variety of settings.
How the conflict has created a humanitarian crisis
After more than two years, the fighting in Ukraine has continued unabated, with ongoing attacks compromising local infrastructure and services and air raid alerts disrupting everyday life. In the winter, this creates especially harsh conditions with electricity supplies often limited and fuel prices at a premium. Year-round, conflict-driven inflation and disrupted livelihoods have led to millions of Ukrainians unable to meet basic needs such as food and healthcare, especially in rural areas of the country.
Many Ukrainians displaced by the violence are living in collective centres. These provide shelter for those who have lost their homes to war, but they are not equipped to be long-term housing. In addition to the physical needs, we are also witnessing a mental health crisis as the result of the conflict, with related trauma affecting everyone from young children to pensioners.
Latest achievements
Cash assistance
From paying rent to buying medicine, cash is a critical resource for those displaced by conflict. Cash transfers give people the autonomy to choose what they purchase while continuing to strengthen and support local markets. Concern has reached over 106,000 people with cash assistance in Ukraine.
Psychosocial support
Winterisation
Hontarivka village, Kharkiv Oblast. (Photo: Simona Supino / Concern Worldwide)
Valeriy* (60) does not want to be pitied. He is not afraid of any cold and winter, it is not the first time he has experienced it. But he is grateful for the stove. "We are Ukrainians, we will cope with everything." Hontarivka village, Kharkiv Oblast’. (Photo: Simona Supino/Concern Worldwide)
Volunteers with Concern's partner We are Brothers are preparing to install stoves and insulation in households in Hontarivka village, Ukraine. Photo: Simona Supino/Concern Worldwide
Concern Program Manager Charlie Acland meets with a family displaced by war from their home in the Donbas. They are living in a college dormitory in the rural west of the country. (Photo: Kieran McConville / Concern Worldwide)
JERU staff inspect supplies that have arrived in Khemelnytskyi, Ukraine. (Photo: Simona Supino / Concern Worldwide)
Ukrainian children wait in their school's bomb shelter for an air raid to end. Dark and damp, the basement still needs renovation. (Photo: Mykhaylo Palinchak / Concern Worldwide)
Lesya's three-year-old son inside the relative's house they have moved to after fleeing their home close to the Russian border. Photo: Mykhaylo Palinchak/Concern Worldwide
Food and hygiene items being loaded in Poltava, Ukraine, for distribution to those left homeless by the recent dam collapse. Photo: Concern Worldwide
How we're helping Ukraine
We're working hard to respond to the growing needs in Ukraine through emergency programming and early economic recovery.
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Early economic recovery
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