Aid Fund Established to Help Ukrainian Refugees

The Hungarian Food Bank Association has set up an aid fund to support the civilian population affected by the war in Ukraine.

In a statement sent to the state news agency MTI on Saturday, the association said that the donations collected will be forwarded to the Kiev Charitable Foundation operating the Ukrainian Food Bank.

According to the information, since the outbreak of the war, the volunteers of the Ukrainian sister organization have delivered more than 450,000 kilograms of food to shelters, hospitals, institutions caring for the elderly and disabled, sometimes at the risk of their lives. However, the Ukrainian Food Bank is running out of stocks and supplies.

It was stressed that the war also puts women and children in danger of losing their lives, without electricity, water and food. Those who are unable to travel because of old age or disability are also starving. For these people, relief supplies, food, water and medicine can be the only means of survival.

Since the outbreak of the war, the Hungarian Food Bank Association has been coordinating donations and relief shipments from dozens of food producers and distributors in Hungary. Food that can be consumed quickly and easily transported is sent directly to the relief organizations supplying the refugees, as it is mainly these products that are needed by the arrivals and those travelling onwards. A network of homes and institutions hosting at least thirty people is being built up to help thousands of refugees, they said.