• We have already helped more than 100 000 people with implementing multi-purpose cash assistance.
• We created a separate page for Estonian companies that want to support Ukrainian women in their independent coping and recovery from the war.

Humanitarian aid in Ukraine

What we are doing? ​

• Implementing multi-purpose cash assistance so people can decide themselves what they need the most. As of now, we have supported 34 271 households (ca. 103 000 people). In total, we have mediated aroud 16 million euros cash based support (Estonian donors + WFP + OCHA). The support allowance is 2220 UAH (= about 70 EUR) per household member. At the moment, we are able to support an average of 600-1000 households a day.
• We opened a separate application platform for multi-purpose cash assistance in Ukraine: https://register.pagulasabi.ee/
• Our on-site call center in Ukraine serves approximately 1 500 people per day, advising and sharing information on support options, pre-selecting our own multi-purpose cash assistance and referring people to other programs as needed.
• Supporting hospitals in Eastern Ukraine with medical supplies, food and other necessities (e.g. generators).
• Handed out 900 blankets, 4600 sleeping bags and other essentials to the people in bomb shelters and temporary accommodation.
• We are part of the Joint Market Monitoring Initiative (JMMI), under which we help the humanitarian sector maintain a consistent overview of how and where in Ukraine markets are operating, whether and how fast basic necessities prices are rising, and so on. Our area of responsibility are the Zaporizhia and Kharkiv oblasts.  

In addition to the support of Estonian donors, we also carry out cash-based assistance with international partners:

• With the World Food Programme (WFP) we support 60 500 people in the Kiev, Kharkiv, Sumy and Chernihiv oblasts with multi-purpose cash assistance.
• With the funding from the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund managed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) we will within three months provide cash-based assistance in total to 12 000 people in the Zaporizhia and Donetsk oblasts.
• With the funding of  International Rescue Committee (IRC) 21 000 people in Kharkiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, Kiev, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions will receive 3-month cash support.

Supporting war refugees in Estonia

What we are doing?

• The Estonian Refugee Council’s counselling center in Tallinn (Liivalaia 28) continues to counsel both refugees and their loved ones every workday. An information hotline is open for Ukrainian refugees and people helping them: +372 5881 1311 (every day from 10 am to 5 pm); also e-mail: dopomoha@pagulasabi.ee.
• We mediate accomondation offers from our database. Of all the offers, we have already mediated 926 households. Upload your accommodations to special Kinnisvara24 portal. 
• We have started various group counselling’s for Ukrainians on four different topics: adaptation, field of work, digital skills and supporting a child's adaptation. Already 15 digital skills, 21 adaptation and 11 child's adaptation workshops have taken place in Tallinn, Tartu, Pärnu, Rakvere, Narva, Keila and Tapa and almost 320 Ukrainian refugees have participated.
• We offer support groups led by psychotherapists. To register for the group, call the Tallinn Psychological Crisis Center on 631 4300 (Mon-Fri 9-19, Sat 10-15).
• We started paying school support. Currently 1574 applications have been received and support has been paid to 1310 applications and 1729 children, in total of 86 450 euros. The remaining applications are under data review and verification is underway.

Donations and use of donations

• Around 5,2 million euros has accumulated in donations for the Refugee Council, including targeted donations made for organizing evacuations and donations for activities in Estonia. Of this, 2,1 million euros has already been spent on giving humanitarian aid in Ukraine and 555 000 euros on evacuations. We have paid out school supports in the total amount of 86 450 euros. About other activities in Estonia, we provide an overview of the use of donations once a month.From April to the end of May, 23,603.70 euros have been spent on organizing, marketing and conducting group counseling and organizing the activities of our counseling center.
• Donations for the Estonian the Refugee Council can be made on our donation page and For Ukraine campaign page.

All our financial reports are audited annually. If you want more detailed information, please send an inquiry to info@pagulasabi.ee.

In addition

• ​More about school support
• More about group counselling
• How the money from Estonian donors helps to save lives in Ukraine
• Eero Janson: People in Ukraine need money, not things
• How we organized evacuations for over a month
• Story about Estonian woman who opened her home to refugees
• More about the cooperation with the World Food Programme (WFP)

Estonian Refugee Council is a non-profit association founded in 2000 and operating in the public interest, with the aim of standing up for the rights and well-being of refugees in Estonia and abroad. Estonian Refugee Council is a humanitarian aid organization certified by the European Union. In Eastern Ukraine, Refugee Council has been providing humanitarian aid since 2014.