Ukraine

Our approach
Description of the mission

Première Urgence Internationale began its mission in Ukraine in 2015 in the Donetska Oblast, providing healthcare, social and psychological support, access to water, and ensuring sanitary and hygienic requirements in medical facilities and collective centers.

Since 2022, in the context of an unprecedented crisis in Ukraine, Première Urgence Internationale has launched intervention to support the most affected civilian populations in the East, North-East and Western parts of the country to expand support for the most vulnerable populations of Ukraine. Our teams are currently providing assistance in the following oblasts: Lvivska, Ivano-Frankivska, Donetska, Zaporizka, Dnipropetrovska, Poltavska and Kharkivska.

Since July 2022, Première Urgence Internationale has been leading the Dorijka consortium with four other French organizations: Action Contre la Faim, Triangle Génération Humanitaire, Humanity & Inclusion and Solidarités International. This multi-sectoral project, working on shelter, health, water, sanitation and hygiene, logistics, protection and mental health support, is active in 13 oblasts of the country.

Première Urgence Internationale
in action

Première Urgence Internationale’s mobile teams intervene directly in collective accommodation centers and in rural areas far from public facilities. They provide free individual or group consultations in health, mental health and protection, and free medicines for the most vulnerable civilians, including internally displaced people and conflict-affected populations. In 2023, more than 37,000 consultations were offered, including 15,000 to internally displaced people.

The structural support is being provided with winter items (boilers, heaters, blankets), personal protective equipment, non-food items, generators to community structures, such as health facilities and collective shelters to ensure the continuity of their service. Première Urgence Internationale conducts water supply and sewage rehabilitation in Donetska, Zaporizka and Kharkivska Oblasts.

In 2023, we supported more than 143,000 beneficiaries with water, sanitation and hygiene services rehabilitations. In Donetska, Kharkivska and Zaporizka Oblasts, our team provides vulnerable populations with multi-purpose cash assistance to allow them to meet their most basic needs. In Donetska, Kharkivska and Lvivska Oblasts, Première Urgence Internationale provides e-vouchers for medicines to ensure access to drugs excluded from the Affordable Medicines Program.

Première Urgence Internationale assisted more than 200,000 people in 2023.