Since the start of the fighting, HEKS/EPER has been implementing a range of emergency aid measures through a humanitarian team stationed in Kiev. These measures are intended primarily to provide people along the front lines in southern and eastern Ukraine with basic necessities, such as food, water, emergency parcels, medical equipment and consumables (learn more, in German).
HEKS/EPER is distributing toiletries, drinking water and food parcels across different towns and cities in southern and eastern Ukraine: small parcels (7 kg) for people in transit and large parcels (18 kg) for internally displaced persons who have sought refuge in collective reception centres. HEKS/EPER also prepares warm meals every day in community kitchens in several towns and cities (Kherson, Mykolayiv).
Besides, HEKS/EPER has set up a cash support scheme under which 2 500 especially vulnerable people and households receive 200 euros each, in several instalments, to cover their individual needs.