The Norwegian Refugee Council is scaling up its efforts inside Ukraine DevelopmentAid

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is now scaling up its efforts inside Ukraine and in neighboring countries to provide aid to tens of thousands of people forced to flee. Over the past three weeks, NRC has deployed additional emergency teams to Ukraine, Poland, Romania, and the Republic of Moldova. The situation for millions of people inside Ukraine is growing more desperate by the day. NRC is therefore organizing food, water, sanitation, shelters, and legal support.

“Our brave colleagues are working day and night under extreme conditions to meet the growing needs of exhausted children, women, and men,” says Jan Egeland NRC’s Secretary-General.

In Ukraine

This week the organization opened a welcome center and a soup kitchen with local partners in Lviv, western Ukraine. In the coming weeks, NRC will work to provide cash directly to thousands of displaced mothers and fathers so they can take care of the basic needs of their families.

NRC has started cross-border operations into Ukraine through neighboring countries and has so far provided food and other aid supplies along evacuation routes.

The teams are also providing information and legal assistance to help displaced people obtain protection and access essential services. More than 1,2 million people have visited the emergency Facebook page in the last weeks.

In neighboring countries

Norwegian Refugee Council is working with national partners in Poland, Romania, and the Republic of Moldova, to ensure Ukrainian refugees have:

A safe place to sleep.
That child can go to school.
That family can access existing national social support systems.
In the coming weeks, the organization will work to provide cash directly to thousands of refugees from Ukraine.
Both in Poland and in Romania NRC is setting up transit centers to accommodate thousands of people per day.