About Us
Effective Aid Ukraine has been partnering with institutions in Eastern Europe to improve the lives of disadvantaged children and adults since 1998.
27 Years of Humanitarian Impact
Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, we have helped over 1,200 Ukrainian refugees, mainly women and children, relocate from frontline cities in Ukraine to safety in Ireland. We have also supported Ukrainians who had been forcibly removed to camps in Russia to relocate to Ireland to give them the best chance of recovery. Working with partner NGOs, including the International Red Cross and Helping Irish Hosts, we sourced accommodation in Ireland for Ukrainian refugees, while our volunteers supported community integration.
Effective Aid Ukraine now partners with the Lviv Regional Council and the Ukrainian NGO Without Limits to improve the lives of children and adults with special needs in Ukraine. Ukraine regional authorities and residential institutions have agreed, in principle, to begin the journey from a Soviet model of care to align with EU models of care, which emphasises active and independent living.
Under the name IODP, Effective Aid Ukraine previously worked with institutions for orphans, children and adults with special needs, and child prisoners, in Belarus. After the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, we ceased all operations in Belarus, shifted our focus to Ukraine and changed our name to Effective Aid Ukraine.
With 27 years of experience supporting children and adults with disabilities, Effective Aid Ukraine has successfully taken on the renovation of Rozdil Friends Home, near Lviv. Rozdil Friends Home is a residential centre for 100 boys and young men with significant special needs.
Under the name IODP, Effective Aid Ukraine previously worked with institutions for orphans, children and adults with special needs, and child prisoners, in Belarus. After the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, we ceased all operations in Belarus, shifted our focus to Ukraine and changed our name to Effective Aid Ukraine.
With 27 years of experience supporting children and adults with disabilities, Effective Aid Ukraine has successfully taken on the renovation of Rozdil Friends Home, near Lviv. Rozdil Friends Home is a residential centre for 100 boys and young men with significant special needs.
Supporting Refugees and Building Safer Futures
Projects That Improve Lives
In Belarus, Effective Aid Ukraine completed the renovation of seven residential centres for children, mostly children with special needs, one centre for adults with special needs, and one child prison. Aside from refurbishment work, which included new beds, kitchens, laundry equipment, and windows, the organisation developed seven 100–acre farms, established libraries of books in 60 child institutions and installed playgrounds in 75 residential homes.
Effective Aid Ukraine believes passionately in the power of play to assist disadvantaged children. In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Effective Aid Ukraine partnered with Concern Worldwide to distribute 12,500 footballs to schools and orphanages across Haiti. Each football was bright green, was printed with the right-to-play commitment from the UN Declaration of Children’s Rights in Creole, and featured a hard–wearing, soft–touch surface suitable for children without shoes. Each football was certified child–labour–free.
Effective Aid Ukraine believes passionately in the power of reading to transform children’s lives. In 2008, we partnered with the Irish NGO Educo, and the Indian publisher DC Books, one of India’s largest Malayalam-language publishers, to provide libraries of books to 450 orphanages across Kerala in Southern India. In order to better instil a love of reading, our books were in the local Malayalam language and were chosen by Malayali librarians. Each library was accompanied by two English-language learning courses in cassette form.
Ukrainian refugees are entitled to engage with their own culture, literature, and history in their own language. In 2023, Effective Aid Ukraine partnered with Ukrainian Action in Ireland, to supply an extensive library of 160 books in the Ukrainian language to the Ukrainian Community Centre in Dublin.
Effective Aid Ukraine believes passionately in the power of play to assist disadvantaged children. In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Effective Aid Ukraine partnered with Concern Worldwide to distribute 12,500 footballs to schools and orphanages across Haiti. Each football was bright green, was printed with the right-to-play commitment from the UN Declaration of Children’s Rights in Creole, and featured a hard–wearing, soft–touch surface suitable for children without shoes. Each football was certified child–labour–free.
Effective Aid Ukraine believes passionately in the power of reading to transform children’s lives. In 2008, we partnered with the Irish NGO Educo, and the Indian publisher DC Books, one of India’s largest Malayalam-language publishers, to provide libraries of books to 450 orphanages across Kerala in Southern India. In order to better instil a love of reading, our books were in the local Malayalam language and were chosen by Malayali librarians. Each library was accompanied by two English-language learning courses in cassette form.
Ukrainian refugees are entitled to engage with their own culture, literature, and history in their own language. In 2023, Effective Aid Ukraine partnered with Ukrainian Action in Ireland, to supply an extensive library of 160 books in the Ukrainian language to the Ukrainian Community Centre in Dublin.