Emergency Intervention

As we distribute aid we regularly find we need to adjust our focus to incorporate new needs and priorities. People are now urgently seeking to repair homes damaged as a result of artillery or rocket fire, or the flooding after the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam before the onset of the Ukrainian winter.
In order to provide emergency support to these people, New Dawn distributes building materials as well as tools and equipment which will help repair roofs, windows and a degree of structural damage.

The first full year of the invasion of the area covered by New Dawn witnessed widespread destruction of homes, kindergartens, schools, hospitals and civic buildings. It caused massive dislocation of people who initially fled but who have been returning at a steady pace since the liberation of the occupied areas.

Collection Centres receive thousands of people: typically the elderly and women and children who escaped the fighting [and also people seeking to return to their home communities]. Many people had to be accommodated on floors and in corridors and make-shift structures due to the lack of suitable accommodation.

As a result of its activities in the hard to reach or “forgotten villages”, New Dawn has identified an urgent need to set up winter-shelters in several regions in the Mykolaiv and Kherson states. In some situations the only possible solution is new construction, in others – reconstruction of the least damaged buildings.

The aim of the programm is to prepare and equip as many shelters as possible for the rural population and thus provide a warm and secure place to survive the winter.