Ukraine Archives

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 ...

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 ...

ONE YEAR OF WAR IN UKRAINE. TODAY CARITAS PRAYS THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS

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

Today, February 24, 2023, is the anniversary of the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine. Caritas Internationalis and the National Office team of Caritas-Spes Ukraine would like to invite you to join the prayer of the Way of the Cross. We want to call this Way of the Cross “The 366th station” to symbolize ...

ONE YEAR OF WAR IN UKRAINE. CARITAS POLAND PROVIDED 176,000 UKRAINIANS IN NEED WITH SHELTER

23/02/2023 Crisis in Ukraine, Emergencies in Ukraine, Poland, Ukraine, Ukraine by daniele piccini

“My name is Tetyana Bilyaeva, I come from the Kherson region in the Goloprystansky district, village Novaya Zburjivka. I worked as a methodologist in a kindergarten. I worked as a director of a community centre, which means I always had to deal with people, with children. That’s what I always liked. And when the war ...

ONE YEAR ON: OVER 5 MILLION PEOPLE ASSISTED BY CARITAS SINCE OUTBREAK OF WAR IN UKRAINE

21/02/2023 Crisis in Ukraine, Emergencies in Ukraine, Ukraine by daniele piccini

With the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine last year on February 24, the Caritas network in Ukraine and in the neighbouring countries of Poland, Romania, Moldova, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Hungary, have worked tirelessly to provide humanitarian assistance to more than 5,3 million people impacted by violence and unrest in the eastern European ...