Emergencies in Ukraine Archives

Second Year of War in Ukraine: Caritas Prepares Long-Term Plans

23/02/2024 Crisis in Ukraine, Emergencies in Ukraine, Press Release, Ukraine by daniele piccini

Two years after the beginning of the war and nearly a decade after the conflict in the east of the country, the humanitarian situation in Ukraine continues to deteriorate and will not improve if hostilities do not stop. This is the picture described by the two local Caritas organisations – Caritas Ukraine and Caritas-Spes Ukraine ...

Ukraine. The Creative Center Kharkiv helps Children to Cope with War

23/02/2024 Crisis in Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine by daniele piccini

This project, in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, offers 800 children and an additional 200 parents from socially precarious and economically disadvantaged backgrounds help and support, in coping with everyday life every year and now more important than ever. At the beginning of the war, many of the project beneficiaries fled to other parts ...

CARITAS WAREHOUSE BURNS TO THE GROUND FOLLOWING OVERNIGHT RUSSIAN ATTACK, 300 TONNES OF AID DESTROYED

19/09/2023 Crisis in Ukraine, Emergencies in Ukraine, Europe, Press Release, Ukraine, Ukraine by Maria Kristina Millare

“Russia’s attack on the Caritas-Spes Ukraine warehouse in Lviv last night, destroying 300 tonnes of humanitarian aid for the people of Ukraine, was an outrage and a flagrant violation of International Humanitarian Law,” states Secretary General of Caritas Internationalis Alistair Dutton from New York, where he is attending the UN General Assembly and where Ukrainian ...

CARITAS WAREHOUSE BURNS TO THE GROUND FOLLOWING OVERNIGHT RUSSIAN ATTACK

19/09/2023 Crisis in Ukraine, Emergencies in Ukraine, Europe, News, Ukraine, Ukraine by Maria Kristina Millare

A Caritas humanitarian aid warehouse has burnt to the ground overnight in Lviv following a Russian attack. Caritas staff were unharmed but an estimated 300 tonnes of humanitarian goods were completely destroyed in the fire, which included food, hygiene kits, generators and clothes. “On the night of September 19, 2023 Russian troops hit an industrial ...

“In Ukraine women become everyday more resilient”

30/08/2023 Blog, Crisis in Ukraine, Emergencies in Ukraine by Claudia Lombardi

Odarka Bordun, Head of Communication at Caritas Ukraine, talks about the attack on Lviv and how women, like her, are coping with family and work as their role in society becomes more crucial everyday. Here is her interview. On 6 July, Lviv experienced a devastating attack on civilian infrastructure during the ongoing war in Ukraine. ...

Care amidst the war

19/08/2023 Crisis in Ukraine, world Humanitarian Day by Francesca Frezza

Tiredness, exhaustion and the constant disruption of life at the sound of air-raid alarms. This is one of the images I carry back from my trip to Ukraine from 25 to 28 July. I intentionally made the first visit as Secretary General of Caritas Internationalis to this war-torn country to express the Confederation’s closeness, solidarity ...

WORLD REFUGEE DAY 2023 – CARITAS WELCOMES, PROTECTS, AND INTEGRATES

19/06/2023 Advocacy, Bangladesh, Migration, Refugees, Ukraine, Venezuela by daniele piccini

On World Refugee Day (June 20) Caritas Internationalis wants to highlight the strength and courage of millions of people worldwide who have left their homelands and have undertaken dangerous journeys to escape conflict, persecution or violence, extreme poverty, natural disasters or climate change. In over 200 countries, Caritas is a witness to the inspiring hope ...

CARITAS RESPONDS TO HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN SOUTHERN UKRAINE FOLLOWING DAM COLLAPSE

16/06/2023 Crisis in Ukraine, Emergencies in Ukraine, Ukraine, Uncategorised by Claudia Lombardi

A week after the devastating destruction of the Kakhovka Dam in Khersonska Oblast, the Caritas humanitarian aid programs in southern Ukraine are tirelessly continuing their efforts to provide assistance in areas where humanitarian access remains extremely limited. The receding floodwaters, now measuring just above 2 metres in some areas, down from the 5.6-metre peak on ...

HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN ARMED CONFLICTS AND POST-CONFLICT SITUATIONS

28/03/2023 Advocacy, Trafficking, Ukraine by daniele piccini

This week Caritas Internationalis, Secours Catholique (Caritas France) and the Order of Malta, with the support of COATNET, held Human Trafficking in Armed Conflicts and Post-Conflict Situations, a side event for the 52nd Regular Session of the Human Rights Council at the Palais des Nations – United Nations in Geneva. This panel discussion event – ...

ONE YEAR OF WAR IN UKRAINE. PEOPLE OF THE DUNGEON

24/02/2023 Crisis in Ukraine, Emergencies in Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine by daniele piccini

A family from Kharkiv lived in a basement for 200 days It is cool and drafty in the basement of this 16-story building on Northern Saltivka. Dusty communication pipes stretch along the walls, wires hang from the ceiling. It is hard to believe that people lived in these conditions for a long time. They didn’t ...