How is UJA already helping in the Ukraine?
Through our UJA-funded partners, the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and the Jewish Agency, gifts to UJA’s Annual Campaign are already working to help the Ukrainian Jewish community.
JDC has been in Ukraine for 30 years, and supports a network of 18 Hesed social welfare centres aiding Jews in need in 1,000 locations across Ukraine, as well as through related institutions like Jewish Family Services and JDC’s Jewish community volunteers corps. JDC also provides critically needed food, medicine, homecare, and other services to approximately 37,000 poor Jewish elderly, including 9,900 Holocaust survivors whose care is supported by Claims Conference funding, as well as 2,500 children-at-risk and their families.
Meanwhile, the Jewish Agency has already advanced $1 million for the emergency response in Ukraine and is working to facilitate evacuation for Jewish families and help for those who want to make Aliyah. For security reasons, details about these operations are not being shared at this time.
I have family or friends in Ukraine. Who can they reach out to for help?
The Jewish Agency has opened an Emergency Hotline to provide Ukrainian Jews with guidance and information regarding the Aliyah process, and general assistance for community members. The emergency hotline will operate in Hebrew, Ukrainian, and Russian.
- Emergency hotline numbers:
- Calling from Ukraine Toll Free: 0800504603
- Local Numbers:
- 0442300478
- 38093651717
- 380960979851
- 0638318336
- 380504691840
- For Relatives in Israel:
- Toll Free: 1800228055 extension 4
- 02 6367714
- 02 6461447