Providing Comfort for Those in Need: Ten Shelters for IDPs Renovated in Lviv

As part of the Shelter+ project, supported by the Austrian Red Cross, we offer housing for internally displaced persons (IDPs). To date, ten shelters, capable of accommodating 500 people, have been renovated in Lviv.

“I have dual feelings: I feel pain, I feel happiness. Pain because why people have to come and to live in this type of institutions, and happiness because I know we are able to give them at least shelter— at least a house, and hopefully, temporary, not permanent. This motivates us and helps us to move forward,” says Vahram Vardanyan, a delegate of the Austrian Red Cross in Ukraine, speaking about the project.

Together with its international partners, the Ukrainian Red Cross is helping to improve living conditions for IDPs by providing beds, mattresses, household appliances, and other essential humanitarian aid. We are also establishing hygiene centres, social laundries, hairdressing salons, specially equipped collective centres for IDPs, and dedicated facilities for pregnant women. Additionally, we are constructing modular towns for IDPs to ensure that everyone has a place to stay and feels comfortable. We are doing everything possible to assist the government in creating and equipping temporary accommodation centres for IDPs.