Our Efforts Include:

• Providing the most vulnerable Jews with vital necessities, like food and medicine, in addition to trauma support and deploying a winter survival initiative, as well as supplying portable heaters, cooking stoves, and subsidies for high utility bills. This response serves thousands of people who are internally displaced (IDPs) and those who have returned after initially fleeing the country.
• Addressing the needs of Ukraine’s “new poor,” resulting from skyrocketing inflation and diminished employment opportunity.
• Supporting the Jewish community and providing connection through continued programming and volunteer work.
• Operating emergency hotlines in collaboration with local Jewish communities in Ukraine, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Israel, Romania, Estonia, Latvia, and Slovakia.
• Supporting vital needs as European Jewish communities help those fleeing Ukraine, including food, medicine, and housing assistance, alongside workforce opportunities and refugee integration into local Jewish institutions and programs.
• Staffing key border crossings on an as-needed basis, along with European community partners and volunteers to embrace, inform, and assist refugees arriving in Poland, Hungary, and Romania, while also working to coordinate shelter and home hospitality.
• Creating educational and emotional support programs for children, both online and offline.
• Access to online employment opportunities that concentrate on remote or freelance work and skill training utilizing JDC’s JOINTECH initiative.
• Providing trauma relief and support through a network of 8 Trauma Support Centers and emotional support activities.
• Delivering nonsectarian humanitarian aid to people impacted by the crisis, including providing Israeli water filter systems in response to flooding in Kherson, establishing the first public prosthetics workshop in Lviv for local production of prosthetics to hundreds of wounded Ukrainians, and supporting community-based rehabilitation services.
• Executing and coordinating evacuations upon request across Ukraine, arranging transport and safe accommodations inside Ukraine and beyond, including organizing special medical transport for elderly Jews who are unable to make the journey using standard vehicles.