According to the most recent report of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, there are currently 14,6 million people in need (⅓ of the total population) in Ukraine. Among them, 6,3 million people are internally displaced, including more than two million displaced children.

Ukraine has a total of 7,200 shelters with an average capacity of 70 people per shelter - enough to shelter only some 10% of the total population in need. Clearly, this is simply not enough.

In addition, more than ⅓ of internally displaced people (IDPs) are in Eastern Ukraine, sometimes in areas less than 20 km away from the front line. Those areas face daily shelling by rockets and heavy long-range artillery with air raid siren running day and night. Many have lost all means of livelihood and depend completely on the distribution of humanitarian aid and food.

Goals & Activities

Goals

• Evacuate civilians from the daily shelling in Donetsk Region;
• Provide IDPs with temporary/long-term accommodations in Dnipro (200 km from the front line);
• Provide ID children with educational and play space (public kindergartens and school do not work because of martial law).

Activities

• Undertake and increase the number of weekly evacuation missions;
• Renovate and expand one of the largest existing shelters to increase its operational capacity;
• Build a second children’s centre to meet the high demand.

Local Implementation Partner

Myriad Canada is working with Children New Generation (CNG) on this project, a non-profit organization working on improving the future of children from low-income families and now providing emergency relief since the war began in Ukraine.

Since March 2022, CNG has:

• evacuated over 4,030 individuals from high-risk areas in the Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, and Kherson regions;
• offered both temporary and permanent shelter to around 2,000 people;
• distributed more than 60,000 food kits, both in Dnipro and in evacuation zones.

FYI: CNG’s monthly news report.