Collaboration with UNHCR and UNICEF Ukraine

Through UNHCR and UNICEF, we helped families affected by the conflict in Ukraine.

Actions taken

We signed a collaboration agreement with UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) to help those affected by the war in Ukraine to meet their most basic needs with essential products, such as those related to shelter, food, medicine and hygiene, among others.

Moreover, protecting vulnerable children is necessary in any situation and ”la Caixa” Foundation therefore reinforced UNICEF's response in Ukraine by means of a collaboration agreement aimed at covering the health and nutrition needs of families affected by the conflict, with particular emphasis on mother and child health.

How we helped

The collaboration with UNHCR focused on two areas of action to help those affected by the war:

• ”la Caixa” Foundation's contribution was primarily aimed at the multi-purpose cash assistance programme (MPC). This was a unique multi-sector emergency cash initiative which aimed to ensure that people's most immediate basic requirements were covered flexibly and with dignity, allowing them to use resources in a way that best suited their preferences and needs. This contribution also helped the local economy to recover by injecting cash into the markets.

• At the same time, refugees in Poland were also given hygiene kits, sleeping bags and thermal blankets.

The humanitarian aid promoted through this collaboration with UNICEF focused on three fundamental areas:

• The distribution of basic emergency kits with health supplies to health centres, hospitals and other places of refuge to meet the immediate needs of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in besieged or hard-to-reach areas.

• The provision of nutritional supplies for children and pregnant and nursing mothers. As well as ensuring women continued to have access to healthcare in maternity hospitals in Ukraine.

• Strengthening UNICEF's work regarding social protection and financial support for Ukrainian families who had to leave everything behind, including their source of income.