{"id":7278,"date":"2022-09-26T23:49:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T03:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/ukraine-emergency-update\/"},"modified":"2022-09-26T23:49:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T03:49:00","slug":"ukraine-emergency-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/ukraine-emergency-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Emergency: Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devp.org\/en\/blog\/ukraine-emergency-update\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n\n<h4><strong><strong>Funds raised<\/strong><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n<p>Thanks to Canadians\u2019 great generosity,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.devp.org\/en\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Development and Peace \u2014 Caritas Canada<\/a>&nbsp;has so far received around&nbsp;<strong>$2 million<\/strong>&nbsp;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!<\/p>\n\n<h4 class=\"text-align-center\"><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.devp.org\/en\/civicrm\/contribute\/transact?reset=1&amp;id=3&amp;gl=24360\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donate now<\/a><\/u><\/h4>\n\n<p>Development and Peace has also received&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.devp.org\/en\/wp_press_release\/quebec-steps-up-for-our-response-in-ukraine\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$200,000 from the Government of Quebec<\/a>&nbsp;and is seeking funds from various levels of government and private foundations.<\/p>\n\n<h4><strong><strong>Development and Peace \u2014 Caritas Canada\u2019s response<\/strong><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n<p>We are working with three partners: Caritas Ukraine, Caritas Slovakia and Caritas Czech Republic. To date, Caritas Ukraine has reached around&nbsp;<strong>1.5&nbsp;million<\/strong>&nbsp;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&nbsp;<strong>hundreds of thousands<\/strong>&nbsp;of refugees, mostly women and children.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Immediate response<\/strong>: In the first few months of the war, our partners\u2019 activities were primarily aimed at providing basic assistance, such as:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>food and water;<\/li>\n\t<li>hygiene kits and medical care;<\/li>\n\t<li>transportation;<\/li>\n\t<li>temporary shelter;<\/li>\n\t<li>clothes;<\/li>\n\t<li>play areas for children;<\/li>\n\t<li>counselling and psychosocial support; and<\/li>\n\t<li>integration support in neighbouring countries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Medium- and long-term response<\/strong>: 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:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>monthly food and hygiene assistance;<\/li>\n\t<li>more permanent housing solutions, help repairing damaged homes and household supplies; and<\/li>\n\t<li>more in-depth psychosocial support for adults and children, including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.devp.org\/en\/blog\/childrens-programs-in-ukraine\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">child-friendly spaces<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>On behalf of the Ukrainian people and our partners, thank you for your generous support!<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>For further information, please see our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.devp.org\/en\/blog\/our-ukraine-emergency-fundraising-qa\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Questions &amp; Answers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source Funds raised Thanks to Canadians\u2019 great generosity,&nbsp;Development and Peace \u2014 Caritas Canada&nbsp;has so far received around&nbsp;$2 million&nbsp;in donations for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}