UNHCR repairs over 27,500 houses, enabling families to remain in and return to their homes in Ukraine
Today, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, together with the Ambassador of Japan to Ukraine, Kuninori Matsuda, and the Head of the EU Humanitarian Aid in Ukraine, Claudia Amaral, visited families and locations in Kyiv region to see the results of house repairs and new solutions implemented for people who have had their homes damaged or destroyed in the war.
With no let-up for war-affected Ukrainians, UN launches humanitarian and refugee plans to respond in 2024
(Geneva, 15 January 2024): The United Nations and partners today asked donors for a combined US$4.2 billion to support war-affected communities in Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees and their host communities in the region throughout 2024. Nearly two years since the war’s...
Ukraine: Family makes a fresh start with a new farm
“I never imagined I would be a farmer,” said 39-year-old Nataliia, standing outside her new home in Sapizhanka Village, in central Ukraine’s Vinnytsia Region. I could see hope in her eyes, despite everything she’s been through. She worked as a logistician back home in...
Second winter with war: how UNHCR helps to keep homes warm and hope high in Ukraine
Improving home insulation Almost two years since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the small village of Huta-Mezhyhirska in Kyiv region still bears visible signs of the heavy fighting that took place in February-March 2022. “The frontline was...
From collective sites to private homes: UNHCR enables forcibly displaced people find dignified housing solutions
With vital support from the United States, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, helps internally displaced Ukrainian families move out of collective sites into private accommodation.
Global forum closes with over $2.2bn in pledges to improve lives of refugees and hosts
Held every four years, the world’s largest gathering on refugee issues mobilized over 1,600 pledges
Nordic walking and singing: how displaced Ukrainians build new networks and stay resilient in their new communities
73-year-old Maia Kondratenko is a vivid example of the strength that displaced Ukrainians demonstrate in their new communities across the country. Maia fled her hometown Sloviansk in Donetska oblast nine years ago when the armed conflict started in eastern Ukraine....
Polish couple help Ukrainian refugees to help themselves
Backed by their property business, the Grochowskis offered housing to thousands fleeing the war in Ukraine, but their work to empower others goes far deeper.
UNHCR and Ukraine’s Ministry of Education and Science increase cooperation to enable forcibly displaced persons to access dignified accommodation and education amid the ongoing war
Kyiv, 4 December: Oksen Lisovyi, Minister for Education and Science of Ukraine, and Karolina Lindholm Billing, Representative of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, in Ukraine, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding. The memorandum highlights the importance of access to...