Stéphane Dujarric describes direct money transfers, mainly to people displaced and jobless due to war, as “a Continued critical support which we, along with our partners, supply in most regions of Ukraine.”
He said last year, about 6 million people across different regions of Ukraine were provided with cash, and this year more than 200 million USD has been transferred to help Ukrainians meet their basic needs.
“This was done through the concerted effort of [more than] 20 partnersincluding UN agencies, domestic NGOs and international NGOs,” said Mr. Dujarric.
One billion goal
He added that the overall goal is to provide cash support for about 4.4 million peopletransferred a total of nearly 1 billion dollars.
And overall, humanitarian organizations are hoping to provide some form of relief to more than 11 million of the nearly 18 million people in need in Ukraine.
“To this end, we and our partners have requested $3.9 billion for the response,” continued the UN spokesman. “We have received a total of $900 million to date, so we count on the international community to maintain support for humanitarian work in this country, as the war continues to cause a serious humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, especially in the east and south.
Over the weekend, the United Nations managed to provide shelter and other vital supplies to more than 1,500 people in a community along the Dnipro River in the Kherson region.
It is the first time aid workers have reached an area just a few hundred meters from the front line, “where the level of devastation is appalling”, according to the United Nations’ office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs. ).OCHA) in Ukraine.
The United Nations humanitarian coordinator in the country, Denise Brown, said on Monday that when sending two convoys into the Donetsk and Kherson regions last Friday, UN teams were “advancing step by step” to the front lines, to ease the suffering of these communities under constant shelling. “.
