“From being a big anti-corruption program, we made the transition to become an emergency aid program just two days after the beginning of Putin’s war”

Allan Pagh Kristensen, the EUACI Head, tells how the EUACI responds to the Russia-Ukraine war.

“It is essential for us and our staff to do something really meaningful. From being in the forefront in the fight against corruption, we are now in the forefront of providing support to Ukrainians in need of basic humanitarian aid and protection.

Local colleagues in the Western part of Ukraine are working around the clock to deliver assistance; to people in shelters in Kyiv and Zhytomyr, to volunteers providing basic humanitarian aid in Mariupol, to refugees queuing up to cross the border to Poland and to civil society organizations supporting internally displaced persons in Nikopol and Chernivtsi. We provide support and protection to the national anti-corruption institutions that courageously continue their important work despite the war. We support Ukrainian journalists that provide actual and timely coverage of the events of the war. And these are just a few of the many ongoing activities.

I am so proud of our local colleagues that are doing amazing work under very difficult circumstances, interrupted only by air raids and the sounds of explosions in the distance. Slava Ukraini!!!”