Ukraine Emergency Appeal Preliminary Update 1st May 2022
Thank you for your donation to Australia’s Ukraine Emergency Appeal. Your donation has already been put to work, providing direct and lifesaving aid to families displaced by war. Actual caption needed.
Lviv, Ukraine
Situation Report The war in Ukraine has created the fastest growing refugee crisis since World War II. Nearly 12 million people are now displaced – an estimated 7.1 million are displaced inside Ukraine and 4.7 million are now refugees who have crossed into neighbouring countries.
At Ukraine’s borders with Poland, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Moldova, people are arriving with only what they can carry.
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UNHCR estimates that another 13 million are stranded in hard-to-reach areas in Ukraine, directly affected by the conflict and in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.
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As the crisis continues, all 7.5 million children in Ukraine have had their education disrupted.
It is estimated that 30-40% of refugees are children are under the age of 14, with high numbers of unaccompanied children being reported. This requires extensive child protection and safeguarding services in refugee influx areas. There is a history of child trafficking in the region, which could rise in the current emergency.
Within Ukraine, internally displaced people are living in crowded private apartments or shelters. There is a lack of access to basic services such as food, water, sanitation and heating. There is an increased risk of gender based violence due to overcrowding and a lack of police oversight. Caption needed.
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How your donation is helping
Situation Report
Emergency Action Alliance (EAA) charities and their local partners are in Ukraine and in neighbouring countries providing food, water, shelter, transport and medical assistance.
There are numerous media reports of indiscriminate aerial and ground-based bombing in urban and populated areas, targeting of humanitarian corridors, and other International Humanitarian Law violations.
Immediate threats to life are occurring in conflict areas within Ukraine, particularly for civilians unable to flee or who are in situations of encirclement or besiegement by Russian forces.
The WHO has highlighted the risks of excess death from common illnesses, due to disruption in services, and acute maternal, new-born and child illnesses, as well as the spread of infectious diseases such as COVID-19, measles, polio, TB, and HIV. These include mental health care, due to “significant stress due to acute conflict”, and conflict-related trauma and injuries, exacerbated by lack of access to health facilities due to insecurity.
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Our members collectively represent the most comprehensive response to this emergency with each organisation bringing its own strengths, resources, capabilities and local connections to the emergency situation.
Several of our members are providing emergency support to internally displaced people within Ukraine and many are providing support at key border crossings where people are arriving with only what they can carry, and nowhere to go.
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How donations to the Ukraine Appeal are distributed
Your donation means we can provide:
Essential services The complexity and scale of the Ukraine emergency requires a broad, muti-faceted and agile response. As the crisis escalates, so does the need for resources. Emergency Action Alliance members are working with their partners to provide a range of essential services both within Ukraine and in bordering countries, including:
The first tranche of funds were distributed to EAA members in the week commencing 18th April 2022. A second tranche will be distributed in mid May 2022. Funds were distributed to responding members based on a pre-agreed allocation formula. This means the donations are distributed directly to the EAA members best able to help, representing an extremely efficient method of getting your donation to where its needed most. Given the complexity and scale of this emergency, this response requires a combined effort across international aid organisations, local first responders and community groups, and government responses around the world including those who have agreed to receive refugees from Ukraine.
International Aid Organisations
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Local First Responders
Community Groups
Set up and management of reception centres
Safe transportation to and from centres.
Assist with ongoing travel arrangements to countries receiving Ukraine refugees
Providing travel packs for ongoing journey
Child protection services and protection against gender based violence
Processing and screening of documents
Legal assistance
Transport and storage of core relief items
Expansion of warehouse capabilities
Provision of telephone SIM cards
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Your donation means we can provide:
Your donation means we can provide:
Food and Shelter People arriving at border processing centres with only what they can carry. Through your support, Emergency Action Alliance members are providing food, temporary shelter and longer term accommodation. Our members are providing:
Food Security
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene With large numbers of people gathering together in emergency accommodation and at border communities, there is an increased risk of infectious diseases and other health issues. Our members are providing sanitation facilities, clean drinking water and hygiene supplies including:
• Setting up kitchens • Providing hot meals
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• Food packs for travelling
•M obile toilets and sanitation units •S howers
Shelter and Accommodation
•H ygiene kits
• Emergency shelter at border crossings and towns • Sleeping mats, tarpaulin thermal blankets, sleeping bags
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• Solar lamps, winter kits
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• Arranging emergency accommodation with host families •S afe spaces for vulnerable people (unaccompanied and separated children, women at risk and other people with specific needs)
Toothbrush, toothpaste
Shave gel, razor
•A dapting and rehabilitating buildings that can offer safe, dignified shelter to displaced families.
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Face cloth, bandages
Lip balm, body lotion
Hand sanitiser, tissues
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Your donation means we can provide:
Your donation means we can provide:
Cash Assistance
Psycho-social support
With your support, families in need can receive cash assistance. This is one of the most dignified forms of support as it provides families with the independence to purchase items and services that meet their individual needs.
People are arriving at refugee centres afraid and distressed after their harrowing escape from Ukraine. They face an uncertain future and are afraid for friends and family they have left behind. With your help, our members are providing vital psychosocial support, including specialist support for children and young people.
•C ash enabling people (especially female headed households and single women) to buy essential supplies at local markets and while in transit
•M ental health and psychosocial experts in conjunction with WHO •P sychological first aid •G rief, stress and trauma support •D edicated help lines
Polish Border
Lwowska Reception Centre
Kyiv, Ukraine
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Your donation means we can provide:
Child services and education Some 30-40% of refugees fleeing Ukraine are children under the age of 14. Many children are reported to be unaccompanied. All children in Ukraine have had their education disrupted. With our help our members are providing specialist support for children and young people, including: • Child protection services
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Lifesaving medical aid Some 30-40% of refugees fleeing Ukraine are children under the age of 14. Many children are reported to be unaccompanied. All children in Ukraine have had their education disrupted. With our help our members are providing specialist support for children and young people, including: •T ransport of live-saving medial equipment and medication •F irst aid and emergency medical services
• Education services & mobile education units • Creation of physical learning spaces • Digital education resources • Children’s activities
Lviv, Ukraine
Lwowska Reception Centre
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Thank you again for your donation to the Ukraine Emergency Appeal This emergency is ongoing and the need for support is increasing over time Please get in touch with us if you would like to make an additional donation to this appeal.
Contact us via email: info@emergencyaction.org.au Visit our website: emergencyaction.org.au Contact us via mail: Emergency Action Alliance Donor Services Level 8, 162 Goulburn St Surry Hills NSW 2010