The Estonian Refugee Council in Ukraine launched their work in the Dnipro Transit Center to help people from Donetsk region who were forced to leave areas of active hostilities due to mandatory evacuation or on their own. Here you can get temporary shelter, legal aid, assistance finding a job and social housing, receive psychological support, food and hygiene kits.
Those who come to the Transit Center are people in difficult life circumstances. They usually arrive with a minimal set of belongings or with nothing at all. Someone lost their home due to hostilities; someone has elderly relatives who need to be taken care of. Each and every one of them needs support and help.
From now on, people evacuated from frontline areas will also be able to apply for multi-purpose cash assistance from the Estonian Refugee Council directly at the Transit Center. This will help vulnerable families meet their basic needs for some time.
The Transit Center was launched by the NGO “Pluriton” with financial support from the Polish Humanitarian Action and in cooperation with local authorities. In total, over 300 people were provided assistance in the first two months of operation at the center.
Multi-purpose cash assistance programme is implemented by the Estonian Refugee Council in Ukraine as part of the Ukraine Response Consortium, led by Acted, and funded by USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA).
