Australian giving is making a real difference in Ukrainian lives

Anglican Overseas Aid supporters are offering life-sustaining assistance in the lives of those forced to flee their homes, as war rages on in Ukraine.

Food, water access, and kits to repair shelter are among the vital aids AOA supporters have provided to people displaced by conflict in Ukraine, through AOA's support of action from the global faith-based network ACT Alliance.

Hundreds of thousands of people remain in desperate need, as the war continues into its fourth year.

Ukrainians face ongoing missile strikes and power outages. Millions of people are now displaced within Ukraine and millions more refugees in neighbouring countries.

More than 12,654 civilian men, women and children have been killed, and at least 29,392 injured in the conflict.

In the middle of this tragedy, Anglican Overseas Aid's supporters' giving means local partners could supply these life-sustaining items to people driven from their homes by the conflict.

Food, water and shelter repair kits have met some of people's most basic needs.

Alongside this, the crisis response has offered access to language courses, psychosocial support, legal services and specialised services such as speech therapy for children.

The ACT Alliance response to the war reached more than 549,000 people across Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland.

Our CEO Jo Knight was fortunate to see some of this work in action with Ukrainian refugees when she travelled recently to ACT Alliance meetings in Hungary.

The war has become one of the largest displacement crises in the world, with more than 6,900,000* people forced to leave Ukraine.

Anglican Overseas Aid's supporters are making a tangible difference in the lives of people caught up in war.

It is support like this that leads to glimmers of hope in the darkness.

For instance, grants for responses led by survivors meant a community could rebuild children's play spaces in one Ukrainian city.

This was one of dozens of small grants, that became powerful levers to help people work together for their community.

In other places, Anglican Overseas Aid’s supporters’ giving has enabled communities to rebuild schools and homes. In two cities, communities have rebuilt 62 homes and six schools, or refurbished them to meet safety standards.

Anglican Overseas Aid's supporters have been a crucial part of delivering this aid.

*United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees