Help for Ukraine

Organizations working inside Ukraine and with refugees in border countries

(credit: Mission Eurasia)

(UPDATE: April 1) The UN reports more than 4 million Ukrainians have fled their country as of March 30. An additional 6.4 million Ukrainians are displaced within the country. The world body also confirmed 1,189 killed and 1,901 injured in the 5-week war. Of those, 99 children have been killed and 126 injured. The human toll, together with Russian attacks on healthcare facilities and infrastructure, leaves millions dependent on outside aid.

Below are organizations providing such services in Ukraine and bordering countries. This is a verified but not exhaustive list:

Baptist World Alliance is working with Baptist leaders in Ukraine and Eastern Europe to provide humanitarian aid. “At present, across Ukraine and the surrounding countries, Baptists are providing 51,000 beds per night,” said General Secretary and CEO Elijah Brown. The group also maintains a prayer channel.

I Am Not Alone is a Ukraine-based platform of volunteers working with the mayor’s office in Lviv to provide aid in hard-to-reach areas. (story here).

International Partnerships, a consortium of church planters, is providing aid through its network across Ukraine (updates here).

Mission Eurasia is one of the oldest ministries in independent Ukraine working with Protestant churches inside the country and providing assistance to refugees in Poland and Moldova. UPDATE: The ministry’s headquarters in Irpin was destroyed by Russian shelling on March 28, but staff members were not hurt.

Mission to the World has a longstanding team based in Lviv now providing material support and housing to war victims.

Partners Relief & Development works to evacuate families vulnerable to active conflict and support them as they flee violence.

Send Relief - Ukraine Crisis Fund is a Southern Baptist ministry working in border countries and inside Ukraine and using the network of Ukrainian Baptist churches (story here).

Samaritan’s Purse has set up an emergency field hospital on the outskirts of Lviv in western Ukraine. Vice President Ken Isaacs, who’s been on the ground, told me today the facility has not yet seen trauma patients, but will, and is treating the general population.

Serge teams operate hostels in eastern Europe that are housing at least 450 refugees from Ukraine. They are providing food, child care, and needed supplies.

Widows and Orphans provides combat trauma care and medical supplies.

World Central Kitchen has kitchens running in Ukraine and neighboring countries serving meals to refugees. It also hosts local fundraisers with affiliated chefs; check to see if there’s one in your area.

World Vision is working to support refugees in Romania.

Please keep praying for Kyiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Mariupol, Zaporizhzhya, Chernihiv, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Poltava, Vinnitsa, Odessa, Izyum the cities which are under heavy attack, airstrikes, bombing, tanks coming to shoot and fight.—that’s today’s top prayer request from a running prayer log put out by local staff for Cru. They ask for prayer particularly from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m., or 8 to 10 p.m. Eastern time. You can get more information on how to support Cru’s work in Ukraine here.