Thank you for supporting the Ukraine Crisis Appeal. CWS has been amazed by your generosity to the many people facing disaster and conflict across Ukraine.

Please also continue to remember in your thoughts and prayers the people of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Syria, Tonga and the Rohingya also living enormous challenges. CWS is appealing for donations to assist people displaced by the war in Ukraine. ACT Alliance (Action by Churches Together) is providing water, food, shelter, blankets and more to families who have left their homes, jobs and loved ones. It is cold outside and many people are traumatised and afraid.

With food running out inside the country, ACT Alliance members are rushing relief supplies to people in Ukraine as well as supporting local church and community efforts to assist the many people on the move.

“We have opened our first strategic warehouse today [Monday] in Lviv. We are seeing first of all that the needs are enormous and secondly, it is going to be impossible to buy things in country. We are seeing huge difficulties for people wanting to buy supplies. There are reports from the east of the country with empty shelves,” reported a staff member from Hungarian Interchurchaid (HIA), part of ACT Alliance. HIA distributed the first hygiene kits in Lviv this week. More than 1.7 million people have fled into neighbouring countries – the United Nations is predicting this will increase to 4 million. People who are older or sick with restricted mobility cannot move out of the way of the war. ACT Alliance members will make sure that the most vulnerable

people will get help first and are calling for the protection of civilians as agreed under international humanitarian law.

In Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine, ACT members are offering food, shelter and comfort to people seeking safety 24/7. Please share news of our appeal with your community and if you can, make a donation today.