Since 24 February 2022, the day that marked the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has recorded 22,209 civilian casualties in the country: 8,317 dead and 13,892 injured. However, OHCHR itself believes that the real figures are higher, especially in some areas such as Mariupol (Donetsk region), Lysychansk, Popasna and Sievierodonetsk (Luhansk region), where there are presumed to be a very high number of civilian casualties.
In this context, AMU and AFN, representing the Emergency Coordination of the Focolare Movement, continue to collaborate with Caritas-Spes Ukraine to ensure constant support to the population that has begun to face the second year of war.
Caritas-Spes Ukraine, together with its partners, assists 23 regions of the country, including frontline areas.
INTERVENTIONS NUMBERS SINCE THE BEGINNING OF 2023
Accommodations and shelters
Since the beginning of the year, Caritas-Spes has delivered 42,354 shelter services to ensure safe shelter (short and long term) for 908 beneficiaries.
Last November, 50 families received assistance in the form of targeted reconstruction of damaged residential buildings (building materials and work of master builders). A total of 167 people live in these buildings.
Food and non-food products
• 38,934 people received a hot meal; • 164,753 food kits; • 5,001 self-cooking foods; • 31,207 people received non-food items.
Psychosocial protection and support
6,238 people received psychosocial support, protection and consultation services.
Hygiene
• 70,022 people were supplied with water, hygiene items, detergents; • 11,536 beverage services provided (such as drinking water, fruit juices, and others); • 51,872 personal hygiene items and household products; • 6,614 kits with children’s clothes and baby hygiene items.
Health care
18,700 medical visits were performed and 6,900 diagnoses were made; 6,400 people received medications.
Financial assistance
Since the beginning of the year, 677 families have received monthly financial assistance
under the Family to Family project. Under another project, 250 more families receive financial assistance every month.
PRIORITIES FOR THE NEXT MONTHS
Among the priorities of Caritas-Spes Ukraine for the coming months are: support for the psychological and physical rehabilitation of the most vulnerable people ; renovation of destroyed houses and construction of modular houses in the Odessa-Simferopol diocese (currently renovation and construction are carried out only in the Kyiv and Kharkiv regions).
