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Sites with the Czech flag 🇨🇿 are in Czech, but can be viewed in English using Google Translate.
Financial support
- ADRA – helps directly on the ground
- 🇨🇿 Salvation Army – humanitarian aid in Ukraine and in Czechia
- 🇨🇿 Care.cz – humanitarian aid on the ground
- Citychurch.cz – direct help for Ukrainian families fleeing the war
- 🇨🇿 Czech Red Cross – medical aid
- People In Need – long-term humanitarian aid since 2014
- Diaconia Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren – help on the ground through Ukrainian partners
- 🇨🇿 Donio: Help Ukrainians keep their head above water – therapeutic aid for people affected by the war and their relatives in Czechia
- 🇨🇿 Donio: #ForUkraine – aid on the ground and in Czechia
- Masaryk University financial assistance – aid for students and academics
- Caritas Czech Republic – essentials for war-affected people
- Post Bellum – medical products and protective gear; fundraiser by the Memory of Nations organization
- Direct support for the Come Back Alive charity – support for the Ukrainian Armed Forces
- 🇨🇿 Direct donations to the Ukrainian Armed Forces – organized by the Embassy of Ukraine in Prague
- Direct donations to the Ukrainian Armed Forces – direct support, various currencies, account opened by the National Bank of Ukraine
- 🇨🇿 Endowment Fund for Independent Journalism – supporting journalists
- Nesehnutí (Independent Social Ecological Movement) – support for civil society representatives, journalists, the media
- Organization for Aid to Refugees – help for refugees and foreigners in Czechia
- 🇨🇿 Association for Integration and Migration – help for war refugees in Czechia
- 🇨🇿 UNICEF – aid for children; choose the project “Pomoc na Ukrajině” (“Help in Ukraine”)
Where to donate cryptocurrency (Bitcoin, ETH)
Collection points
Clothing
- 🇨🇿 Czech Red Cross– in the centers of all Regional CRC Associations
- 🇨🇿 Salvation Army– at Salvation Army branches, in collection containers
About Salvation Army in EN - 🇨🇿 Clothes collection for refugee camps– organized by Šatník Praha – for single families
- 🇨🇿 Scout Institute for Ukraine– collects blankets and shoes (distribution is in progress)
- 🇨🇿 Collection by the Embassy of Ukraine in Prague– medicine, sleeping bags, hygiene products…
- 🇨🇿 Single Mothers Club– medical supplies
- 🇨🇿 Silicon Hill, Student Union Club ČVUT– sleeping bags, blankets, mats, warm clothes, medical and hygiene products
- 🇨🇿 Expediční klubovna Brno– medical and hygiene products, sleeping bags, batteries,…
- 🇨🇿 Collection place church Uhříněves– medical and hygiene products, sleeping bags, batteries,…
- Prague: Vocelova 3, Praha 2,House of National Minorities
Oksana Hluško, phone num. +420 777 686 240 (every day, 8:00–22:00) –collection of medical and military equipment
K Vodojemu 140, Chrášťany– collection of hygiene products, food, clothing, sleeping bags…
Vaníčkova 7, Praha – Břevnov, student's dormitory Strahov, block 1 (10:00–17:00) - Pardubice – Church of Panna Marie Sedmibolestná, Bílé Předměstí,intersection of streets Štrossova and Dašická, 53003, Marjan Kurylo: phoneno. +420 777 904 901 (every day)
- Convoy from Pelhřimov / Zachotín Vysočina – 🇨🇿 more info on FB Martin Vacke, mayor of Zachotín
- Liberec – Greek Catholic Church, Malé náměstí 2, o. Ivan: phone no. +420 603321 578
- Louny – Skáld Coffee, Beneše z Loun 134, 🇨🇿 collection starts 27. 2. at 9:00, until 5. 3. 2022
- Žatec – shop Šťastně BezObalu, Nám. Svobody 142, Žatec, 🇨🇿 collection starts 27. 2.at 9:00, until 5. 3. 2022
- Opatov – Fara, Opatov 10, 58805, Filip Boháč: tel. 604 169 503 (privateindividual)
NOTE: Before you go to any collection points, first make sure that they are still receiving material. Some collections have already moved into the sorting process and do not have storage capacity. If you have any free time, you can help as a volunteer by appointment.
Other information
- People in Need – 8 most frequently asked questions about aid to Ukraine
- 🇨🇿 State guard – a table with links to help Ukraine
- 🇨🇿 Pirati.cz – Support Ukraine!
- 🇨🇿 Students for Liberty CZ – Invasion of Ukraine and how to help
Petitions
- No-Fly Zone for Ukraine – petition for a no-fly zone for Ukraine
- 🇨🇿 Stand with Ukraine – defending democracy, help for Ukraine, sanctions against Russia
- 🇨🇿 Pomozmeukrajine.cz – military and humanitarian support for Ukraine, sanctions against Russia
Accommodation
- 🇨🇿 Accommodation offers – Administration of Refugee Facilities of the Ministry of the Interior
- 🇨🇿 Option to offer accommodation in Prague – mediated by the city of Prague, form here
- 🇨🇿 Form for emergency accommodation offers in Brno and its surroundings – mediated by the Center for Foreigners of the South Moravian Region, Statutární město Brno, Diocesan Charity Brno
- In Zlín Region, these contacts are looking for flats for the current convoy of refugees: Michaela Ženožičková: tel. +420 739 482 306, Magdaléna Šimečková: tel. +420 774 129 672, mail: [email protected]
- 🇨🇿 Uprchlici-vitejte.cz – housing offers from private individuals, shared households
- Shelter for Ukraine – international system for accommodation offers
Transport
- Drive for refugees –- you will go to the Ukrainian border for specific people and take them to a designated, pre-arranged location where they will be accommodated. Coordinated by Pomáháme lidem na útěku
- 🇨🇿 We are going to the Slovak-Ukrainian border – car coordination of volunteers (FB group)
- 🇨🇿 Train to Ukraine – transportation for elderly people and mothers with children to the Czech Republic
Train to Ukraine (FB group) - DoDo – offers transport to the SK/UA borders, transports food, medicine, documents and other necessities. Can also provide cars to transport people. Contact: [email protected]
- Transport in Ukraine: https://www.ukrainenow.org/refuge (translate page to EN button at the page bottom)
Work & Requalification
- 🇨🇿 Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs – information for employers and foreigners in connection with the conflict in Ukraine
- 🇨🇿 Palacky University (Olomouc) is looking for translators, lawyers and psychologists to help Ukrainian students
- 🇨🇿 Jobs - Ukrainian initiative in the Czech Republic – advertising and job offers for Ukrainian citizens in the Czech Republic
School and children
- 🇨🇿 Educational program “Variants of People in Need” – a guide for teachers, supervision options for teachers
- META – support foreigners in learning the language and participating in Czech society
- 🇨🇿 Locika center – how to talk to children about war
Psychological help
- 🇨🇿 Psychological help for citizens – directory of psychological help in the Czech Republic, via the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic
- 🇨🇿 Social clinic – psychotherapeutic assistance for people affected by the war in Ukraine
- 🇨🇿 VOS.health app – looking for Ukrainian translators and copywriters, Ukrainian-speaking psychologists and therapists
- 🇨🇿 Palacky University (Olomouc) is looking for translators, lawyers and psychologists to help Ukrainian students
Legal help
- PRO BONO consultations, organized by 🇨🇿 Veronika Plešková – looking for lawyers, translators, psychologists and more
- Association for Integration and Migration – looking for volunteers, interns, sympathizers and more
- 🇨🇿 Czech Bar Association - call for lawyers to volunteer their services to assist Ukrainians (asylum, labor, international law)
- 🇨🇿 Palacky University (Olomouc) is looking for translators, lawyers and psychologists to help Ukrainian students
Help for animals
Financial assistance
- Contribution to UA Animals, which distributes funds to various shelters and different parts of the country:
🇨🇿 Fundraiser for Animal Freedom NGO
UA Animals organization account on Patreon - Contribution to specific shelters
🇨🇿 Zahist shelter (Kyjev region) – small animals
🇨🇿 Friend shelter (Dnětropetrovsk region) – small animals
Vet Crew – wild animals (Insta)
🇺🇦 Fond Manchyk Olga – (Dněpropetrovsk small shelter) –- small animals (FB) - Ongoing fundraisers (directly via bank account):
@cat_dogs_dnipro
🇺🇦 @dniproanimals
🇺🇦 @shelter_sirius
Voluntary assistance to animals (temporary care, transport, homes)
- 🇨🇿 Veganfighter – form, where you can enroll as a volunteer for temporary or permanent care of UA animals transported to the Czech Republic (in Czech)
- 🇨🇿 Pes web – another form where you can volunteer for temporary or permanent care of small animals from Ukraine
- Europe-wide shared map – where you can also volunteer (Polish initiative – use in English / Polish)
Others
- 🇨🇿 Demagog.cz –- help to prevent the spread of false information (call on FB)
- 🇨🇿 Help for Ukraine - fundraisers, web links, tips (Czech FB group)
- 🇨🇿 Volunteers for Expediční klubovna Brno – paramedics at the borders, processing fundraising and more (in Czech)
- 🇨🇿 SUMMARY How to send humanitarian and financial aid – article summarizing the best ways to help the people of Ukraine
- 🇸🇰 The War in Ukraine - A Huge Psychological Manual
- 🇨🇿 10 experiences to help people on the run
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic warns against any trips to Ukraine.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic calls Czech citizens to leave Ukraine immediately.
The Embassy of the Czech Republic in Kiev and the Consulate General in Lviv were temporarily closed.
In case of emergency for Czech citizens in Ukraine, contact the emergency line of the Consulate General of Lviv at the telephone number +380 673 749 701, or on the Czech telephone number +420 222 264 234.
Source: 🇨🇿 Information for Czechs in Ukraine and for Ukrainians in the Czech Republic and Ukraine
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic