Ukraine (SlovakAid)

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, the humanitarian situation in the country has worsened, with millions of people struggling to access food aid that is scarce or non-existent. 

The UN estimates that more than 12 million people in Ukraine are already in need of food and livelihood assistance. According to WFP surveys, up to one-third of households have inadequate access to food and their ability to maintain adequate levels of nutritional consumption is declining sharply. Households primarily obtain food by buying from shops and paying cash from their own resources, but more than a third of people have no income or depend on external financial assistance. As many as one in four households have to borrow cash and up to a third of people have had to leave valuables in their homes to flee. More than one-third of people have had to reduce their daily food consumption since the war began. 

Those most at risk are those who have become separated from their loved ones and from their usual circle of contacts. Estimates speak of more than 10 million internally displaced persons who, for security reasons, have had to move to other places within Ukraine, where they live in alternative accommodation and often in makeshift conditions. The prices of both food and non-food goods are rising steadily, and the purchasing power of the majority of the population is deteriorating by the day. Some of the people affected by the war are receiving multi-purpose cash assistance through foreign humanitarian organisations, but this is of limited use, as commodity prices are rising steadily and access to basic goods is lacking in some places.