Supporting Ukrainians Impacted By The War

Based in Rzeszów, Poland, during the early days of the conflict and until March 2023 Medair supported volunteer and local organisations to offer safety, stability and protection to the millions of people displaced, ensuring everyone consistently and effectively received the services they needed. This included training frontline staff and volunteers in psychological first aid and protection, regularly assessing and distributing non-food and hygiene items and cash transfers.

In Przemyśl, Medair managed the registration desk of Poland’s largest refugee reception centre (Tesco) as well as the health services of the reception centre in the city train station. Medair’s teams provided support to Korczowa and Kroscienko refugee reception centres as well, until June 2022.

Medair’s teams scaled up their relief efforts in Ukraine as well. The organisation provided critical aid (medicines, non-food and hygiene items, water and sanitation services, cash transfers and psychological first aid) in western and central Ukraine, while also working to ensure that hospital basements and schools used as air-raid shelters were safe and equipped to welcome the people in transit. Over a thousand houses and seven collective centres for displaced people have been refurbished and equipped.