2 Get help

The members of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement are the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the national societies of the Red Cross or Red Crescent. The Red Cross Society of Ukraine is an all-Ukrainian voluntary public humanitarian organization that assists the state in providing humanitarian assistance during armed conflicts and in peacetime, participates in providing international assistance in case of disasters and emergencies, provides medical and social assistance to the most vulnerable. , teaches first aid skills, helps to recover losses due to armed conflicts, natural disasters or migration processes of family ties, provides psychosocial support, etc. For a list of our activities and information on them, see the link.
Please contact the organization of the Red Cross Society of Ukraine at the place of residence or registration with a package of necessary documents proving your identity and substantiating difficult life circumstances. You will be told when and how to get help.
No, the Red Cross of Ukraine is a humanitarian organization, not a medical one. The Ukrainian Red Cross Society has rapid response teams that provide first aid to victims of armed conflicts and natural disasters, teaches first aid skills, in some regions provides medical services to the population through its own medical and social centers, mobile medical teams,  promotes blood donation, disseminates information on the prevention of dangerous infectious diseases (including COVID-19), distributes personal protective equipment, etc. In such areas as first aid training and its provision to victims, volunteers and employees of the Society do not actually carry out medical manipulations (injections, medications, etc.), and for effective participation in them, even basic medical education is not required.
Depending on the current programs of the Society, which clearly define the criteria of beneficiaries from the most vulnerable categories of the population and the capabilities of the Red Cross of Ukraine, you can receive the material (clothing, footwear, hygiene products, products, food, pharmaceutical vouchers, etc.), psychosocial support, services of patronage service of the Company, etc. Please contact the nearest organization of the Ukrainian Red Cross Society with a package of documents proving your identity and substantiating difficult life circumstances/state of health.
Any person who got into trouble - loneliness, disease, poverty, unemployment, loss of family relations, emergencies or armed conflict – may apply to the Red Cross employees. The wards of the Society are lonely needy elderly people, disabled people, veterans and disabled veterans, internally displaced persons and other segments of the population needing the public assistance. However, often the opportunity of help depends on the Society programs which are being realized now, where criteria of beneficiaries among the above-mentioned categories of the population are accurately designated.
Please submit a package of your identifying documents and evidence of your difficult life circumstances to the Ukrainian Red Cross Society in your locality or place of your registration. You will be told when and how you can receive help
Depending on the opportunities available to the Ukrainian Red Cross Society and depending on the programs which the Society is realizing now, which accurately designate criteria for the beneficiaries among the most vulnerable categories of the population, you can get material help (clothes, footwear, means of hygiene, products, food or pharmaceutical vouchers, etc.), psychosocial help, services of the Society patronage, etc. Please submit a package of your identifying documents and evidence of your difficult life circumstances / state of health to the nearest branch of the Ukrainian Red Cross Society. You will be told which help you can receive