In Ukraine, 27,448 families received financial assistance from UNICEF to prepare for winter. This is a winter assistance programme for households with children living in frontline regions. Payments of 19,400 hryvnia are intended to provide heating, electricity and winter clothing. Support is provided to families with children, including large families, single-parent families, and families with children with disabilities in seven regions: Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, and Chernihiv.
UNICEF is using an existing database of households collected during previous registrations within a 50-kilometre zone from the front line. The organisation emphasises that not all families can receive payments at the same time, as some are supported by other humanitarian initiatives.
The programme is being implemented in cooperation with the Government of Ukraine and local partners, with the support of the European Union, the governments of Germany and Norway, and UNICEF National Committees in Ireland, Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
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