Report: Order of Malta Aid to Ukraine

Facts and figures

• 1,200 tons of relief goods distributed within Ukraine
• 182 No. of emergency shelter supplied with relief goods
• Over 65 cities in Ukraine supplied with relief goods
• 2 logistics hubs in operation
• 12,317 beneficiaries of first aid trainings
• 24 psychosocial aid locations
• 273,538 meals distributed to displaced people
• 381 volunteers supporting Malteser Ukraine
• 9 ambulances handed over

• 2,500 people in Ukraine trained in first aid and medical equipment have been serving Ukrainians since the first days of the war. Currently, the number has risen to around 3,000 people.
• Hospitals in Silesia and the National Institute of Cardiology from Anin in cooperation with RARS (Governmental Agency for Strategic Reserves), with the active participation of the MSM donated medical equipment needed to save lives to hospitals in Lviv and Ivano Frankivsk with a total value of PLN 1 million.
• BEforUA (Belgium for Ukraine), through the Maltese Medical Service, provided Ukraine with 20 ambulances filled with medical equipment as well as with significant assistance in the form of food. A further 5 ambulances and 2 body coolers were handed over
• Over 3,000 people evacuated
• Accommodation provided for about 250 people
• 249 people relocated to Germany, France and Belgium

Source: Order of Malta Poland

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Border operation​

• Presence at the Ukrainian border at the Vysne Nemecke border crossing helping refugees leaving Ukraine, as well as Ukrainians returning home ​
• As of the end of May: provision of food and beverages to approximately 130,000 people, medical support for 1,500 people

​Accommodation for refugees​

• Operation of three facilities (capacity: 85 places for refugees that are already living in Slovakia

Delivering humanitarian aid to Ukraine ​
(in cooperation with the Office of the Government of the Slovak Republic and the Plenipotentiary of the Government of the Slovak Republic for Roma Communities)​

• Regular deliveries of humanitarian aid to the vulnerable and marginalized population in Ukraine, in the region neighbouring with Slovakia
• More than 5 tons of humanitarian aid to western Ukraine, also with the help of the Slovenian OMRO

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• Personnel and financial support of the Slovakian Malteser at the border in March and April​
• Support by a team of paramedics including a doctor in Krakow/Poland in May​
• Financial support to the soup kitchen of the Embassy of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in Chişinău/Moldova.
• Personnel support at the public arrival centers for Ukrainian refugees in Vienna together with other aid organizations since March.

Organization and transport of relief goods and to Ukraine and the Malteser temporary camp in Katowice and Chorzow:​

• 2 heavy duty transporters with in total 66 pallets of food, hygiene products and medical material and medicines directly to Lviv​
• 2 transporters of approx. 80 pallets of food, hygiene products and medical material and medicines to Katowice​
• 1 fully equipped ambulance + emergency medicines to the Ukrainian Malteser relief organization​

International aid project​

• Project to support refugees, internally displaced persons and host communities in the context of the war. The project focusses on the support of refugees and IDPs inside of Southwest Ukraine and neighboring countries, particularly Moldova and neighboring Romania. The project activities will cover immediate relief supplies (NFI, food, medical supplies) to people affected by the crisis.

St Josef refugee shelter in Vienna​

• Together with Diakonie, MALTESER Austria runs a house owned by the Congregation of the School Sisters of the 3rd Order of St. Francis, which is open to women and children from Ukraine. A total of up to 50 places are available

Supporting Ukrainian families in Slovenia​

• OMAS supports the Asylum Home in Ljubljana with regular donations of material help (clothes, hygiene care) and an additional cargo of soft beverages for the Refugee Day event held for the refugees on the premises.​

Humanitarian cargo delivered to Ukraine for the support of IDPs​

• A total 3.5 tons cargo of non-perishable food and hygiene care items were delivered to Ukraine: ​
• 2 tons to Turia Remeta, Zakarpatye to a religious house of Sisters of the Miraculous Medal. ​
• 1.5 tons to the priest of the Poroshkovo village, Zakarpatye who provides for the Roma population (this part of the humanitarian donation was delivered in coordination with the Slovakian OMRO) ​

Additional activities​

• Ongoing fundraising: Income from the sale of paintings at the gallery exhibition owned by the largest national Catholic media will be donated​
• Mercator, a Slovenian multinational retail corporation agreed to additional generous discount and support to OMAS activities.

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• Emergency Medical Team established and ready for deployment across Europe within 48 hours as needed
• Transport of 3.3 tons of medicine to hospitals in Kyiv and Lviv, with more to follow in Kharkiv and Khmelnytsky from central pharmacy in France
• Additional support measures in planning including food for refugee children, logistics, and direct support to OMROs
• Group of eight doctors deployed to the Main Railway Station in Kracow
   

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• Three truckloads of aid - mainly food and medicine - left Verona. Every week the list of basic needs for displaced people is updated.
• Forty tons of relief goods prepared for delivery to Ukraine (collected by the Delegation of the Order of Malta di Veroli) with logistic support from ACISMOM
• 14 aid shipments sent to Hungary, Romania and Ukraine (650 tons of goods in total) coordinated by CISOM
• CISOM volunteers supporting activities in Siret, Romania
• Accommodation for Ukrainian refugees
   

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• Aid shipments, housing of refugees, shipment of medical supplies,​
• Opening of accommodation centre, on 1st June. Reaching close to 30 hosted refugees from Ukraine. Maximum of 60 hosts will be reached in the course of August. Services: Full board and bedding, arrangement of medical support, psychological and legal support (with the help of Caritas International Belgium), language courses et activities for children. ​
• Aid for refugees and more particularly in favour of an orphanage in Chernivisti (western part of Ukraine) hosting 52 children among which 42 mentally and physically handicapped children coming from the Donbass. ​
• Delivery of one ambulance to Ukraine loaded with medical equipment. Supporting BEforUkraine, a newly formed NGO (cooperation on aid for Ukraine).
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