Funds raised
Thanks to Canadians’ great generosity, Development and Peace — Caritas Canada has so far received around $2 million in donations for current and future humanitarian relief operations (95% of which are being used directly for this crisis, 5% for administrative costs). Thank you for your great generosity!
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Development and Peace has also received $200,000 from the Government of Quebec and is seeking funds from various levels of government and private foundations.
Development and Peace — Caritas Canada’s response
We are working with three partners: Caritas Ukraine, Caritas Slovakia and Caritas Czech Republic. To date, Caritas Ukraine has reached around 1.5 million Ukrainians who are displaced or living in hard-to-reach areas of Ukraine, while in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, our Caritas partners have helped hundreds of thousands of refugees, mostly women and children.
Immediate response: In the first few months of the war, our partners’ activities were primarily aimed at providing basic assistance, such as:
- food and water;
- hygiene kits and medical care;
- transportation;
- temporary shelter;
- clothes;
- play areas for children;
- counselling and psychosocial support; and
- integration support in neighbouring countries.
Medium- and long-term response: In the last few months, our partners have been providing stabilizing humanitarian assistance to the many families who are returning to their devastated homes or live in a neighbouring region. They are also continuing to provide first-response humanitarian assistance, particularly in the east and south of the country where the fierce fighting is giving rise to urgent humanitarian needs. The more long-term support includes:
- monthly food and hygiene assistance;
- more permanent housing solutions, help repairing damaged homes and household supplies; and
- more in-depth psychosocial support for adults and children, including child-friendly spaces.
On behalf of the Ukrainian people and our partners, thank you for your generous support!
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