From the beginning of its activity, Caritas-Ukraine is realizing social programs providing assistance for victims of natural disasters or man-caused accidents. Using the big experience of its international partners and their financial and material help, Caritas Ukraine initiated action of help for people suffered from the accident on sewerage in Kharkiv in 1995. In 1997 help as provided to the victims of hurricane in Volyn oblast andpeople suffered from floods in Lviv and Ivano-frankivsk oblast. In 1998 – 1999 Caritas-Ukraine and its Western partners, together with Caritas regional organizations provided humanitarian aid for victims of flood in Transcarpathia. In 2000 the region also suffered from flood and Caritas proclaimed help action which lasted six months. In 2001, after the accident on Barakov coal mine in Luhasnk oblast, Caritas-Ukraine provided the sufferers medical equipment.

From 2002 Caritas is realizing long-term program of care of children, who lost parents and were wounded during catastrophe on Sknyliv airport in Lviv by from 2002. Caritas-Germany, ‘Help to Ukraine’ Fund of Scoial Service of Ukrainians in Canada (Edmonton and Toronto) and Ukrainian Catholic Educational Foundation (Canada) provide financial and material support. In the framework of the project, Caritas provides social escort of 41 children by providing them financial support. Presents fro holidays, organization of summer rest, organizing of psychotherapeutic help. 

 

In July 2008, when torrential rains overcame western Ukraine, causing a raging flood, Caritas Ukraine engaged in their work without delay. Within a week after the National Office of Caritas Ukraine received the first information on damages from its regional organizations situated on flooded territories, an appeal for assistance was sent to the Central Office of Caritas Internationalis in the Vatican. The appeal consisted of a plan of measures to provide immediate and urgent aid to flood victims: how to finance, purchase, deliver and distribute assistance. Additionally, local Caritas organizations carried out a campaign among their communities aimed at gathering food, clothes, and footwear for the flood victims.

Learning from the experience of former projects on providing assistance to victims of natural disasters, as in the floods in the TransCarpathia and Ukrainian-Hungarian border in 1998–1999 and 2001, Caritas Ukraine centrally organized the purchase of humanitarian aid based on tender, and then forwarded the aid to its regional representative offices, who in turn distributed the aid in the immediate regions directly to the victims. Caritas Ukraine provided aid for more than 1,000 victim families amounting to 388.500.00 Euros.

One of the priority topics for Caritas-Ukraine is providing help for women who appeared in unfavourable life situations. For example in Kyiv there is a Center for training of hairdressers, in Sokal there is a shelter for single minors-mothers and girls – victims of violence.