KHARKIV - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) plans to provide one-time financial assistance in the amount of 235 euro (per family or per person) to 7,500 of refugees from the war-torn area, including 5,000 people living in Kharkiv Oblast.
According to the press service of Kharkiv Regional State Administration, Manfred Profazi, the Chief of Mission of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Ukraine, announced this at a meeting with Acting Deputy Head of Kharkiv Regional Administration Vadym Hlushko on Dec. 3.
According to Profazi, people (families) most in need of this assistance will be determined with the help of the regional authorities.
In turn, First Deputy Director of the Department of Social Protection Tetiana Babenko, who also participated in the meeting, said that the department had already started searching the families displaced from the war-torn area, who are in the most dare circumstances.
“First of all, we will pay attention to families with disabled children, where children are brought up without a father, as well as families with many children. I think that we will find 5,000 families who meet the above criteria,” Babenko said.
Profazi also said that a representative office of the International Organization for Migration will open in Kharkiv soon.
