The East SOS team carried out an advocacy mission to Germany
From June 16 to 18, Oksana Kuiantseva, a board member of the East SOS Charity Foundation, and Kateryna Dorosh, project manager, held a series of advocacy meetings in Germany with key stakeholders, including representatives of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and the Federal Foreign Office.
During the meetings, the team presented findings from the international monitoring mission’s report, which focuses on the conditions and challenges faced by residential care facilities for older adults and people with disabilities amid the full-scale war in Ukraine.
For the third year now, we have been visiting the frontline and host communities to monitor the humanitarian situation and engage our international colleagues. This time, we assessed facilities in the Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Vinnytsia, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Lviv regions to evaluate their potential for receiving older evacuees. This directly impacts our ability to rescue people from frontline areas.
Oksana Kuiantseva, board member of the East SOS Charity Foundation.
The German Federal Foreign Office has supported several of East SOS’s initiatives aimed at ensuring a sustainable evacuation process, renovating homes damaged by shelling in frontline communities, and providing psychosocial and legal support in the Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Kherson, and Kharkiv regions.
See the recommendations based on the results of the monitoring mission here.
These advocacy efforts are part of the project “Support for War-Affected Vulnerable Groups and Residents of Remote Areas of Ukraine,” implemented by East SOS with the financial support of the European Union. The contents of this document are the sole responsibility of the East SOS Foundation and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.
