In these three years from the Russian invasion, 12 million 700 thousand Ukrainians (36% of the population) continue to depend on humanitarian aid to subsist. There are close to 7 million refugees -The majority in European countries- and 4 million 200 thousand internal displaced that flee from a conflict that has left more than 12,600 civilians dead, about 700 minors, and more than 29,300 injured, according to UN data.
Carmen Gómez de Barreda, responsible for the campaign of Caritas in Ukraine It warns that at this point in the conflict an important deterioration in the mental health of the population is palpated, especially among the little ones.
“For me, the 4.8 million people served to date are 4.8 million reasons for hope,” explains Carmen Gómez de Barreda. “We return the dignity, hope and the desire to live with those intangibles of affection, justice and humanity. Things that seem small are those that help us build among all a more just society,” adds the head of the Cáritas campaign In Ukraine.
Cáritas also ensures that today 5 and a half million Ukrainians do not have any source of income, something that, added to an inflation of 12%, has focused millions of citizens to live under the threshold of poverty.
The impact of war on the little ones
A poll recently published by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) puts the focus on minors and leaves us data that, as are little – make reflecting. One in five Ukrainian children has lost friends or family in war, and a third confess to being “sad and hopeless”indicates a survey published Friday by the three -year impact on conflict on the little ones.
Children are the ones with the most collateral damage: not only physically and emotionally, but also in the educational aspect. It is estimated that at least 1,600 schools have been destroyed by the Russians or have suffered damage, so Underground classrooms in basements and shelters have become the new normality of Ukrainian children and teachers.
