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Despite the terrible events that continue to unfold, we’re motivated by a mission to turn hope into action.
The events in Ukraine rocked the world. But for those directly affected, the impact of the war has been far-reaching and will echo for years to come. A shifting front line, and terrifying airstrikes on cities, towns and critical infrastructure across the country continue to see many people killed, injured and forced to flee their homes.
Regular attacks on Ukraine’s energy systems have left millions of people lacking basic services, including electricity, water and heating. For many households, everyday essentials are out of reach, from food and toothpaste to warm clothes and fuel.
While buildings can be repaired and physical scars healed, there’s also an immeasurable psychological cost due to the uncertainty, bereavement and trauma that this brutal war has inflicted upon so many in Ukraine. But people stand strong and determined, leading their own response to the challenges they face, so that they can rebuild their lives.
Ukraine today
By working with the people of Ukraine and beyond, we know that together we can change lives for the better.
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2.5m
families lack adequate shelter; millions face unreliable heating, water, and electricity. (UN, January 2026)
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3.7m
million people remain internally displaced; 5.9 million Ukrainian refugees are registered across Europe (UN, January 2026).
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>10.8m
million people are in need of humanitarian assistance , this is equivalent to roughly 29% of Ukraine’s population (UN, January 2026)
Ukraine tomorrow
A country where peace is reached fairly. Where people and communities are supported by a strong and diverse Ukrainian civil society to lead their own recovery, and meet their needs through a survivor and community-led response.
How we help in Ukraine
At the heart of our work is the belief that lasting change is achieved when people affected by crisis are able to lead and shape their own response and recovery.
We work in partnership with local and national organisations, valuing their skills, experience, and deep community connections to ensure responses are shaped by the realities people face.
Together with our partners, this has included supporting access to essential healthcare, emergency accommodation, and psychosocial support for children and families affected by the conflict.
Update on our Ukraine programme
As the main Christian Aid programme in Ukraine scaled back its humanitarian operations in March 2026, we put in place a carefully planned transition to ensure our local partners can continue their vital work. This includes providing extended core funding beyond the programme’s official end, helping partners maintain essential services and strengthen their ability to access new resources. In parallel, we are supporting the creation of a Ukrainian-led pooled fund to enable civil society organisations to lead humanitarian and early recovery efforts.
This approach reflects our commitment to localisation, ensuring that the people of Ukraine remain at the centre of their own recovery long after our exit.
Assess and Assist
Assess and Assist is a flexible approach to cash assistance that helps people in crisis with care, dignity, and practical support. Local staff listen to each person’s situation and respond quickly — whether through a small cash grant for essentials or help connecting to trusted local services.
By reaching people who are often overlooked or struggling with multiple challenges, Assess and Assist offers hope and stability when it’s needed most.
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Supporting Community-Led Response
Supporting community-led response is essential to achieving lasting impact. By placing crisis-affected communities at the centre of decision-making, Christian Aid helps ensure support is relevant, accountable, and effective.
We strengthen informal networks for mutual support and coordination, provide community-identified training, and fund priorities chosen by communities themselves through micro-grants. Through this approach, Christian Aid and partners have supported community-led projects across 23 oblasts in Ukraine, reaching over 540,000 people.
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Staff wellbeing
Supporting the wellbeing of humanitarian responders is essential to upholding safe, effective, and accountable humanitarian action. Christian Aid supports staff and partners through the Trauma and Community Resilience Model (TRM/CRM), a practical, body-based approach that strengthens resilience and psychosocial functioning.
CRM equips people with simple skills to regulate stress and maintain wellbeing under pressure, helping ensure those responding to crisis are able to sustain their work and continue supporting affected communities.
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Pooled Fund
Supported by Christian Aid and other actors, the Ukrainian Pooled Fund strengthens locally led humanitarian and early recovery responses through flexible funding and capacity support for grassroots organisations in Ukraine.
Our partner, Philanthropy in Ukraine, has developed and manages the a due-diligence passporting website, helping local organisations access funding more easily while building long-term sustainability.
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Basic rights
Meeting essential needs is a daily challenge in a country where buildings have been destroyed, people have been forced to flee, and livelihoods are disrupted.
- More than 60, 500 people received emergency food kits that were distributed by the local partners. The packages included a range of foods from rice and wheat porridge to canned meat and chocolate.
- A total of 8,773 people benefited from firewood for cooking and heating, generators, fuel, heaters, stoves, power banks and other essentials such as clothing and blankets to weather the winter months.
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- More than 45,000 NFI kits were distributed that included bed linen, blankets, towels, kitchen utensils and more.
- A total of 25 safe spaces were established that provided displaced families as venue to find safety, food, rest, peer support, and receive psychosocial support. Over 9,046 people, mostly women and children, were provided temporary accommodation, consultations with social workers and psychologists, case management to support their integration into their new homes, and psychosocial activities for children.
Health
Alliance for Public Health provided mobile health clinics in the deoccupied territories of Kharkiv, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Kherson and Mykolaiv oblasts (regions) that reached 21,459 people with doctor consultations, medical diagnostics, treatment and medications.
Alliance for Public Health and their local partner organisations carried out crisis response services, providing consultations with doctors, psychologists and legal professionals to support their medical needs, safe spaces, cash support. This supported over 56,998 people with consultations.
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