Survivors are keeping hope alive but they lack bare necessities — like electricity, safe transportation, shelter, warm clothes, and heat. Families often endure 14 hour blackouts in lethal cold and darkness, without any way to call for help.

10.8 million people in Ukraine are in dire need of humanitarian aid this winter as temperatures have dropped to nearly minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit but attacks are decimating what’s left of the healthcare system.

11-year-old Julia lost her home, her school, and people she loved, replaced by the fear and uncertainty of overcrowded shelters. The UNFPA Girls’ Tent in Gaza has transformed the lives of girls across the region. Julia thinks of the Girls’ Tent as her second home and a place of consistency during an uncertain time. “My life changed when I started coming here. I can play with my friends without worrying about and thinking of things that make me sad. Now I enjoy life more.”

Julia, 11, enjoys a confidence-building activity at the UNFPA Girls’ Tent in Gaza, a space where she has found stability, support, and a sense of belonging after displacement.

Ukrainian refugees cross the border into Moldova. Many people came with only a few items and are in desperate need of basic goods, like toothbrushes, laundry detergent, and period products.

Since September 2025, UNFPA has delivered more than 11,500 Winter Dignity Kits containing warm clothes, blankets, gloves, hats, and hygiene supplies in Kherson, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv and Kharkiv regions where communities have lost access to water, healthcare, and electricity.

"In this war, I lost everything I had. I lost my son... I lost my home and everything that I had collected in it over many years of hard work... But I did not lose faith in the goodness of the human soul. It was hard for me to realize that at the age of 80, I was left under the open sky… alone with my grief. But I'm not alone. There is help.” said Maria.

In conflict, basic hygiene is a privilege women and girls can't afford. The older women who remain in frontline villages are most affected by violence and struggle to navigate potential minefields, find supplies, and survive the extreme cold.

Elderly women from Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Sumy regions receive Dignity Kits.

UNFPA Dignity Kits have become a lifeline for many women and girls across Ukraine.

Dignity Kits help women and girls maintain health, privacy and a sense of normalcy when everyday necessities are out of reach.

You have the power to deliver hope, healthcare, and essential supplies to women and girls in Ukraine as they endure another brutal winter. Will you deliver lifesaving care to women and girls in crisis with a gift today?

Thank you for being there for women and girls.

— USA for UNFPA