Our teams arrived in Marrakech and are doing everything they can to provide food support. We are working with local restaurants and providing sandwiches, fruit, and water to affected communities. We have four food trucks arriving in Marrakech from Spain, so we expect to be cooking hot meals soon. It has been immensely challenging to reach more remote communities, so we are exploring all options including using helicopters and 4x4 vehicles.

We are delivering aid (food, water, and hygiene) to the most vulnerable communities. Each Family Food Kit contains items like oil, tea, shampoo, hand soap, sugar, couscous, water, biscuits, and tuna. Post distribution, GEM has faced challenges with restocking due to market shortages, but managed to order 250 foam mattresses, highly requested by locals now sleeping in open spaces. GEM will be offering immediate humanitarian relief to all those effected.

CARE’s immediate priority has been to provide meals, safe water supply, emergency shelter, and medical support to families that have been impacted by the earthquake. As the situation on the ground evolves, CARE teams plan to adapt their response strategy to ensure they can provide timely, culturally appropriate and gender-sensitive assistance to families in need.

In Ukraine, the IRC is working with local partners to provide emergency assistance to internally displaced people. So far, we have supported evacuation efforts for women and children, provided critical information services about housing, employment, refugee rights and registration for displaced people, as well as provided psychosocial care through a dedicated hotline. In the immediate term, the IRC is quickly ramping up cash distributions in Ukraine, carrying out an initial pilot with 500 households as the team works closely with local authorities to identify priority locations for further cash distribution. We are also planning to distribute the first batch of locally procured medical equipment and supplies from a partner’s warehouse to an estimated ten health facilities in eastern Ukraine.

In Poland, where over 2 million refugees have fled, the IRC has established three offices and is ramping up staffing. With IRC support, the Polish Forum for Migration has trained a psychologist to provide services at two accommodation locations in Warsaw. Throughout the month of April, we will be distributing cash support—piloting cash delivery approaches both directly and with partners—to Ukrainians living in major cities, such as Warsaw. It is also a priority to train staff members from partner organizations in protection and safeguarding for women and children, including gender-based violence and prevention. And in Warsaw, we have launched a mobile service for mental health and psychosocial support to displaced people living in shelters and transit sites within the city.

Due to the trauma of war, new moms are unable to provide for their infants with breast milk and are in need of formula which is in short supply. Without it, babies are dying. Love Does secured 3000 units of formula which is equivalent to 600 infants for 30 days/4 meals a day delivered to maternity wards in Kyiv. We are also working with our contacts on the ground to help with other urgent needs as well.

Of the 2.6million Ukrainian refugees that have fled to Poland, many are in refugee centers in Warsaw. Love Does secured 285,000 meals to be delivered to multiple centers. In addition, we staffed and supplied youth centers at the Warsaw Expo for 5000 Ukrainian refugees. These youth areas act as an oasis to give kids and families much needed activity, relief, support during this traumatic time as they wait to hear of their relative’s safety and whether they can return to Ukraine or will need to start a new life in another country.

There has been a large influx of Ukrainians entering the US through the Tijuana/San Diego border. They are allowed to stay in the US temporarily as a humanitarian parolee as they figure out their next steps. In this transition time, parolees are afforded very few services, so the needs are many. Love Does created and coordinated a San Diego Ukrainian task force made up of over 25 organizations to better serve this community. In addition, Love Does committed resources to provide for emergency housing for several individuals awaiting host families.

Save the Children has been operating in Ukraine since 2014, including in the conflict-impacted regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.

This includes supporting their access to education, providing psychosocial support, distributing winter kits and hygiene kits, and providing cash grants to families so they can meet basic needs such as food, rent and medicines, or so they can invest in starting new businesses.

Our specialist teams are also providing children with access to safe, inclusive, quality education.

Together with schools and community centers, we work to help children overcome the mental and psychological impacts of their experiences of conflict and violence, and increase their resilience and ability to cope with stresses in their daily lives.

We call on all parties to the conflict in Ukraine to ensure full humanitarian access to all caught up in the Ukraine crisis.

World Central Kitchen began serving hot meals within hours of the initial invasion of Ukraine, and quickly set up at the eight border crossings with Poland. Since then, WCK’s Chefs for Ukraine response has grown rapidly, and is distributing nourishing food and fresh meals across the region. WCK is also distributing bulk food product to restaurant partners in Ukraine to supplement the strained food supply chain and working with local restaurants to provide fresh meals at border crossings, shelters, and other locations along their journey.