Since the escalation of the war in February 2022, until mid-October 2024, nearly 6.8 million refugees4 from Ukraine have been recorded – 92 per cent of them in Europe. Inside Ukraine, an estimated 3.6 million people5 remain internally displaced as of October 2024.
Among the most vulnerable are also an estimated 12.6 million as of March 2025 people who were not displaced from their homes but who have been directly affected by the war – they have been wounded, their homes have been destroyed, their family members died.
Civilian infrastructure, such as power grids, water supply networks. hospitals transportation infrastructure, have been targeted by the daily missile attacks, severely disrupting people’s lives across the whole country, and particularly in the East.
Since the first hours of the full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022, we have been supporting victims of war on both sides of the Polish-Ukrainian border. As one of the first organisations granted access to Ukraine, we have been providing critically needed assistance to Ukrainians for more than three years.
Local NGO Dobra Fabryka Ukraina was founded as an independent humanitarian organisation in response to this biggest humanitarian crisis in the world. Since 2022, Dobra Fabryka Ukraina has emerged as a local leader in emergency aid and support for vulnerable populations.
Dobra Fabryka Ukraina provides life-saving humanitarian assistance and support to vulnerable populations in Ukraine, particularly in areas most affected by conflict and displacement in the East and South. We aim to respond swiftly and effectively to emergencies, ensuring that aid reaches those who need it the most—when and where it is needed.
Our mission is rooted in the belief that every person deserves dignity, safety, and the opportunity to rebuild their life amidst crisis. We work closely with local communities, UN agencies, donors, international and national NGOs, and civil society organisations to ensure a meaningful and effective response through various aid modalities. We are proud of our daily commitment to helping people, not numbers.
Our vision is a Ukraine where all people affected by conflict and crises receive the support they need to survive, recover, and build a resilient future. We envision a humanitarian landscape that is led by local organisations, where cooperation, localisation, and accountability to affected populations are at the forefront of every response, ensuring that assistance is efficient, effective, and aligned with the needs of people in need. By building strong, people-centred networks and championing local leadership, we aim to transform humanitarian aid into a sustainable, collaborative effort that lays the foundation for long-term recovery and development.
More than three years into the full-scale war, while the conflict becomes the new normal for many, we remain steadfast. We continue to holistically and genuinely support people, ensuring aid reaches those in need, making the response policies and coordination sustainable and both short- and long-term effective.
We have reached over 165,000 civilians across critical oblasts, including Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, and Zaporizhzhia.
We delivered essential food and NFI kits, multi-purpose cash assistance (CVA) for health, supporting vulnerable IDPs, the elderly, disabled individuals, and pregnant women, particularly in “Red” zones close to the Line of Contact.
We provided critical aid like power generators, heating items, sleeping bags, thermoses, and power banks to more than 43,000 civilians in conflict-affected regions.
We supplied crucial equipment and medical consumables to hospitals in the East and South, including portable X-ray and ultrasound machines, blood-filtering devices, and anaesthesia machines, supporting over 110,000 patients.
We have established robust cooperation with over 100 organisations, including UN agencies (OCHA, IOM, UNHCR, WFP), international NGOs (ERC, NRC, Save the Children, Plan International, Caritas, Mercy Corps, etc.), fellow local NGOs and CSOs, and local and national authorities, ensuring a unified, effective response. We truly make the response more meaningful in the context of daily attacks, assisting organisations through various modalities.
We have created emergency guidelines that have been used daily since May 2023 by all organisations providing multi-purpose cash assistance in response to missile attacks, evacuations, and other shocks in Eastern and Southern Ukraine. These guidelines have also served as the operational guide for organisations providing assistance to more than 40,000 people affected by the Kakhovka dam destruction last year.
We have created a unique data-protection and AAP-centered referral tool, allowing multiple organisations to safely refer vulnerable beneficiaries and ensure their varied needs are covered. The use of this tool is currently being scaled up across UN agencies, international and national NGOs through various assistance modalities.
As the first and only local NGO co-chairing a working group within the coordinated response of such scale, we have been elected to co-lead the Cash Working Group Task Team on Deduplication, Registration, and Interoperability, within which we have developed SOPs used by more than 110 organisations that have prevented duplication of multi-purpose assistance for more than 2 million people.
We are one of the most prominent examples of effective localisation and advocate for the meaningful implementation of the Grand Bargain commitments, ensuring that local organisations play a significant role in the response. We do this through relentless capacity building of fellow local organisations via training, technical and strategic advice, continuous representation at the majority of clusters and working groups, and international conferences and meetings.
We are the first and only local NGO member of the CCD network, advocating at the Humanitarian Country Team and donor level to shape cash and voucher assistance policies and make the overall humanitarian response in Ukraine more effective and efficient.
We are fostering sustainability and accountability of the response through our work as a member of the Legal Task Team, ensuring that humanitarian and livelihoods assistance is not taxed and that Data Protection Principles and Legislation in Emergencies are adhered to by local authorities and humanitarian organisations.
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