Alongside Ukrainian Refugees!

Many of our initial activities have been supporting accommodation centers, border points, and other institutions that provide assistance to our neighbors in need.

What we have helped so far with:

• 3 border points and the Galați Train Station – – arranging spaces, food, water
• 10 locations with translators- – translation is very important, as most refugees do not speak Romanian or other common European languages
• 7 refugee accommodation centers in Galați and Brăila – arranging spaces with furniture, household equipment, donations of food, cleaning products, hygiene products, clothes, toys, and other useful items for refugees, reimbursing transport for refugees from borders or to various destinations.

Tons of aid sent to Ukraine.

Inimă de Copil has helped with:

• organizing and sending 12 transportations of essential resources (food, hygiene products, medicine, medical equipment, and equipment for accommodation spaces)
• logistic support for over 60 humanitarian transportations carried out by local partners

And, when most of the volunteers were tired, the services for refugees were closing or diminishing, and many focused on short-term needs, Inimă de Copil Foundation created the largest and most complex refugee support service in the area.

We currently have 2 Refugee Resource and Support Centers in Galați and Brăila that help hundreds of refugees monthly. 16 employees work in these centers, over half of whom are Ukrainians, and they have become more than a service – they are communities of Ukrainians who feel accepted, and helped in all their needs; it is a new “home” that heals loneliness, trauma, and restores hope.

We speak about 4 languages (Romanian, Ukrainian, Russian, English), we laugh, cry together, learn to coexist and continue our lives in a world where nothing is the same…

Four years after the start of the war, the need for support has not disappeared — but much of the support has.

More than 5,000 Ukrainian refugees have settled in Galați and Brăila, two counties close to the Ukrainian border, and new refugees continue to arrive even today. Yet very few organizations are still providing direct assistance in the area, and our work is now supported by only a small number of funders.

We are still here, supporting 300–400 refugees every month: helping them learn Romanian, supporting children’s education, facilitating access to essential services and helping families integrate into their new communities. We remain especially close to elderly people, people with disabilities or chronic illnesses, and single mothers.

After four years, these families still need someone beside them. And we need your help to remain that someone.You can help us continue by donating through the form below.