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Appeal Target: US$ 1,127,407
Balance Requested: US$ 865,407/ 464,109
Geneva, 18 April 2016 Dear Colleagues,
The humanitarian situation in Eastern Ukraine remains difficult. This is due to the fighting clashes which began in April 2014 between militia armed groups in Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine, which proclaimed the slogan of autonomy/independence of their territory from the central authorities of Ukraine, and on the other side – the forces and armed groups under the central government in Kiev.
ACT members the Russian Orthodox Church /Department for External Church Relations (ROC/DECR), and the Hungarian InterChurch Aid (HIA) have been responding since 2014 through ACT Appeal UKR151. Due to the conflict in the Eastern part of Ukraine, the appeal UKR 152 has been launched beginning of September 2015. Since March 2016 the humanitarian situation in Ukraine is further deteriorating. Recently, the Ukrainian government suspended social and pension payments for a significant number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). In addition, the government introduced a new IDP verification system. Therefore, HIA decided to answer to the new challenges and to reflect to the changing needs in the revised Appeal.
As a reminder, the overall goal of the ROC/DECR response is to facilitate survival for affected populations and improve the health and hygiene situation of the refugees and internal displaced persons from conflict areas in Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine by providing hygiene- kits and psychosocial support. The ROC/DECR response will be carried out in the regions of the highest concentration of refugees and IDPs:
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Kiev and Kiev Region (Ukraine),
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Rostov, Voronezh, Belgorod, Kursk or Stavropol Regions (regions of Russia bordering with Ukraine or close to border).
50% of aid will be distributed to refugees/IDPs in Ukraine, 50% - in Russia.
Furthermore, the overall goal of the response by HIA is to provide life-saving, emergency assistance to the extremely vulnerable target population in 8 regions of Ukraine (Kharkiv, Kiev, Dnipropetrovsk,
Zaporizhia, Kherson, Donetsk, Luhansk, Transcarpathia) by providing assistance for IDPs and people living in war zones in the following four sectors: food security, water sanitation & hygiene, shelter & NFI, health/psychosocial assistance.