Belgian Red Cross-Flanders releases 250,000 euros for humanitarian aid in Ukraine | Inland

Belgian Red Cross-Flanders shares the great concern of the International Red Cross about the situation in Ukraine and the wider conflict area. The Red Cross movement has been fully mobilized in response to the emergency to support and protect the civilian population. The organization also calls on all parties involved in the conflict to respect international humanitarian law.

Belgian Red Cross-Flanders therefore immediately releases 250,000 euros from its own emergency fund to support the Ukrainian and Polish Red Cross. The money will be used to provide food, water, blankets, shelters for refugees in the Polish border towns and medical care and psychosocial support.

Belgian Red Cross-Flanders also opens an account for those who want to deposit money: 53 0000 0000 5353 with the mention “Ukraine”. That money will also be used through the local Red Cross departments for direct humanitarian aid to the people affected by the conflict.

Belgian Red Cross-Flanders is and remains in close contact with the local Red Cross branches in the conflict area (Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Poland…) and with the International Red Cross. Together with them, it is continuously analyzed which aid actions need to be set up and where financial aid is needed to help the victims.

From Monday 28 February, the Restoring Family Links service will also be activated via the specially provided telephone number 015/44 34 07. Anyone who has lost contact with family members as a result of a war, armed conflict, natural disaster or migration can call on this service. Belgian Red Cross-Flanders works together with other Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies worldwide, and special representatives in conflict areas.

The Red Cross also makes an urgent appeal to all parties involved in the conflict to comply with obligations under International Humanitarian Law (IHL). So far, 30,000 packages of food and items such as soap, shampoo and toothpaste have been distributed to refugees by the Red Cross. The aid organization has trained a thousand people in shelters to provide first aid, it sounds.

The Red Cross has brought more than 16,000 liters of water to the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine in recent weeks. In Russia, a thousand volunteers help about 18,000 people who have fled there. The Red Cross also offers shelter and assistance in other neighboring countries of Ukraine. In Poland there is food and medical aid and temporary shelter for hundreds of refugees.