Supporting people impacted by the crisis in Ukraine
We are seeing a devastating humanitarian crisis unfold.
The number of casualties is rising while health facilities struggle to cope.
People are sheltering underground, often for hours on end, and are not able to go outside for fear of shelling.
Hundreds of thousands of people have no food, water, heat, electricity, or medical care. They are trapped in cities unable to escape.
Millions of people are fleeing into neighbouring countries with only what they can carry.
You can help the Red Cross teams who are on the ground providing first aid, supporting health facilities with medicines and equipment, providing families with food, shelter and hygiene items, delivering much-needed water, and repairing vital infrastructure.
Donate today to the Ukraine Crisis Appeal and you can help provide emergency relief and longer-term humanitarian support to people and communities affected by this unfolding crisis.
Your donation can help provide the life-saving support needed right now and, in the weeks and months to come. That support may include:?
- Humanitarian activities to enable Red Cross and Red Crescent partners to address immediate and longer terms needs in Ukraine and neighbouring countries, including to people who are displaced. This includes emergency relief assistance such as shelter, health, water and sanitation.
- Specialist aid workers to assist local teams to respond to the crisis
- Helping people restore contact with family members separated by the crisis by offering services to maintain family links and locate missing family members
- Monitoring and evaluation of the support
Please give what you can. All staff donations will be matched by Sulzer.
Ukraine Crisis Appeal - Sulzer Australia Fundraising
Ukrainian Red Cross Society (URCS) has 10,000 volunteers and 800 staff working across the country. Across the country, volunteers are providing first aid and psychosocial support, transporting people to hospital, helping to reunite families through the Red Cross hotline, and delivering humanitarian aid to shelters, medical facilities, and temporary accommodation for those who are displaced.
The ICRC operations in Ukraine are among the ten largest ICRC operations worldwide (out of 100 places they work). They have over 600 staff members in six offices across Ukraine on either side of the line of contact. The ICRC have been in Ukraine since 2014. Additional ICRC personnel have arrived in Ukraine to help scale up assistance work, including medical staff, weapons contamination specialists and other emergency team members. As of 23 March, about 140 additional staff have been deployed, joining a workforce of about 600in six offices across Ukraine on either side of the line of contact.
IFRC through its Country Delegation in Ukraine and supported by its Regional Office for Europe, has been providing technical support to URCS and mobilising international aid to programs and operations led by the National Society.
