december 2014

December 23, 2014, with the support of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the State Emergency Services, shipment of hygiene kits and sets of warm items, financed by UNFPA, has started.  This help will be further distributed in the regions of Ukraine with the highest number of internally displaced people.

Some sets will be delivered to boarding insitutions in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions. The rest will be delivered directly to internally displaced persons in the ATO area.

1980 hygiene kits will be delivered to Slovyansk neuropsychiatric boarding institution (Donetsk region), to Kremisnk regional boarding institution for the elderly and disabled (Luhansk region) and also will be distributed among internally displaced persons with the help of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

1095 sets of warm items will be delivered to Slovyansk neuropsychiatric boarding institution, Kharkiv Geriatric Institution for Labor Veterans and Dnipropetrovsk Geriatric Institution.

In 2014, UNFPA Ukraine allocated significant amounts of financial aid for the needs of internally displaced persons, in particular, over 20 thousands individual hygiene kits were purchased and delivered to the areas with the largest number of internally displaced people. The Fund delivered the truck with RH Kits for provision of obstetric-gynecology care  for 1 million 800 thousand people for three-month period , paid for accommodation and recreation of 200 children and adolescents.

For the programs of humanitarian assistance, the Fund received funding from the US Government and the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF).