# DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal has raised over £400mn

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2023/02/02/dec-ukraine-humanitarian-appeal-has-raised-over-400mn/
- Published: 2023-02-02T12:47:55+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**The Disaster and Emergency Committee (DEC) has now raised over £400 million through
its DEC’s Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.**

The appeal launched on 3 March 2022, and the amount raised makes the DEC the biggest
charity donor to the Ukraine humanitarian response in the world, according to [UN OCHA’s Financial Tracking Service](https://fts.unocha.org/appeals/1102/summary).

The total has been revealed today (2 February), along with a report, [Ukraine: You’re your Donations are Helping](https://ukraine.dec.org.uk/),
showcasing the life-changing humanitarian work in Ukraine and the wider region over
the past year, made possible by the generosity of the British public.   

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The report is based on programmatic data and interviews from aid workers and those
affected, and shows how the funds have been used by DEC charities in Ukraine and
neighbouring countries to support vulnerable and marginalised groups such as women
and children, older people, those with disabilities, ethnic minorities and the LGBTQ
+ community.   

Examples include:   

 * Projects to provide food to people in war-torn areas, including a team of volunteer
   cycle couriers delivering food and medicines to vulnerable people in their homes.
 * Working with Ukraine’s Ministry of Health to deliver 75,000 life-saving trauma
   kits for civilian use and 34 incubators for premature babies.  
 * Providing generators for people in bomb shelters to keep them safe and warm over
   winter as the targeting of Ukraine’s power grid leaves them without electricity
   and heating.  
 * Programmes giving refugees and displaced people cash payments so that they can
   decide how best to meet their own needs.  
 * Supporting special schools in Poland for refugee children with Ukrainian teachers,
   as well as 20 ‘digital learning centres’ for children and parents.  
 * Providing mental health support to people recover from their experiences of the
   conflict.  

 
Each chapter covers specific stories and subjects including the refugee crisis,
medical aid, frontline cities, vulnerable groups, displaced people, winter, infrastructure
and looking ahead to the future. Chapters also have links to films, stories and 
imagery. The report also covers the journey of the DEC appeal, facts and figures.
It can be [read here](https://ukraine.dec.org.uk/).

## Comments

### By: HowardLake

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2023/02/02/dec-ukraine-humanitarian-appeal-has-raised-over-400mn/#comment-4422
- Published: 2023-02-13T09:58:53+00:00

Meta has published details of how it is helping in response to the earthquake:

[https://about.fb.com/news/2023/02/helping-those-affected-by-earthquakes-in-turkiye-and-syria/](https://about.fb.com/news/2023/02/helping-those-affected-by-earthquakes-in-turkiye-and-syria/)

This includes its Crisis Response Safety Check (allowing people to indicate they
are safe), its Community Help function enabling people to ask for particular help,
its blood donation promotion tool, plus donating $550,000, directly to local relief,
rescue, and recovery operations.

### By: HowardLake

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2023/02/02/dec-ukraine-humanitarian-appeal-has-raised-over-400mn/#comment-4426
- Published: 2023-02-14T17:03:36+00:00

The WHO Foundation has launched a campaign to raise funds for WHO’s Earthquake Emergency
Appeal for Türkiye and the Syrian Arab Republic.

It is trying to raise US$43 million to continue its life-saving work.

[https://earthquakeresponse-turkiyesyria.who.foundation/](https://earthquakeresponse-turkiyesyria.who.foundation/)

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Photo: Search and rescue operations underway in Islahyia, Türkiye, on 7 February
2023\. Image: © WHO / Ibrahim Al Shikh Ali / Arete

### By: HowardLake

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2023/02/02/dec-ukraine-humanitarian-appeal-has-raised-over-400mn/#comment-4427
- Published: 2023-02-14T17:09:50+00:00

Health supplies sent by WHO to Türkiye and the Syrian Arab Republic, February 2023\.
Photo: © WHO
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