In a month since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. Capacity statement Caritas-Spes Ukraine

Since the very beginning of the Russia invasion, the centres of the ‘Caritas-Spes Ukraine’ Mission and the RCCiU parishes have launched an extensive network of help centres. The Mission has created humanitarian hubs and logistics routes as well as a network of transit routes for humanitarian aid distribution.

In the western regions, the Mission is housing and supporting IDPs, including arranging warming centres and providing food and meals for people waiting to cross the border. Central Ukraine has become a transit shelter for IDPs from Kyiv to the south, the north and the east. The Mission has arranged shelters for people and provided them with necessities. .

Over the last 27 days, the Mission has equipped 25 shelters in Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Volyn and Lviv Oblasts including  four centres that provide refuge to the evacuated orphanages and homes for single mothers. The Mission continues to support 17 soup kitchens in Zakarpattia, Zaporizhzhia, Lviv and Volyn Oblasts, that warm meals for those in need. It has also continued to support the family-type children’s homes and the houses of mercy for the elderly.

The Mission is now preparing an appeal which will be focused on two key directions. The first direction is assistance for the communities remaining in the combat zones. The second direction is aimed at IDPs and provides the availability of shelters and necessities for people who have lost their homes. The Appeal also provides psychological support aimed at overcoming war traumas.