According to the United Nations, the conflict in eastern Ukraine directly affected 4.4 million people, 4 million are in need of humanitarian aid, 10, 225 people were killed, and 24, 541 injured. 70 percent of people in need of humanitarian aid are the elderly, women and children. About 1.6 million people are currently registered as internally displaced and are heavily dependent on humanitarian aid. Children affected by the armed conflict can’t go to school, because many educational institutions are damaged, destroyed or temporarily closed.
In 2017, Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry has already allocated EUR 280,000 in humanitarian aid to help people caught in conflict and natural disasters in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, Mali, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone and Dominica, as well as to support Palestine refugees in the Near East and the Myanmar crisis refugees.
