With funding from the European Union, Estonian Refugee Council and Acted are providing assistance to conflict-affected people in Ukraine. Since 2022, ERC has helped more than 130,000 people in Ukraine thanks to EU support. 

Through the recently completed 12-month project, ERC provided support to vulnerable people in Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Luhansk, Mykolaiv, and Zaporizhzhia regions from June 2023 to May 2024. 

Through the project, ERC assisted over 33,000 people in the last year, primarily in frontline areas, with multi-purpose cash assistance to address their most urgent needs such as food, hygiene, and medications. ERC reached over 12,000 people with cash for heating assistance to support their heating needs during the cold season, particularly targeting highly vulnerable households disconnected from central heating in frontline areas and reliant on solid fuel, as well as those affected by energy grid disruptions due to ongoing hostilities. 

From June 2023 to May 2024, ERC supported over 2,000 vulnerable people in rural areas with emergency livelihoods grants, helping them to generate new sources of income and achieve the subsistence minimum, by starting or continuing with commercial activities in the field of agriculture, food production and various micro-services. 

The situation in Ukraine is still critical. According to UNHCR, over 14.6 million people, approximately 40% of the Ukrainian population, will require humanitarian assistance in 2024. With funding from the European Union, Estonian Refugee Council and Acted continue to address the needs of people in frontline, severely conflict-affected, and hard-to-reach areas. 

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