
- Level of action
- National
- Countries
- Lithuania
- Contact details
- Ingrida Damulienė, email: Ingrida.damuliene@redcross.lt
Contact Person responsible for the Project 'Enhacing Employability and Social Integration with Innovative Solutions for Displaced People from Ukraine in the Baltics': Jurgita Jagminaitė, email: jurgita.jagminaite@redcross.lt - Organisation website
- Theme of the organization
- Active inclusion and employabilitySocial integration of those at riskAddressing material deprivation
- Type of organization
- Non-governmental org.
- Offering
- The Red Cross of Lithuania is a humanitarian, independent and voluntary organization and the only National Society in Lithuania. The Lithuanian Red Cross was founded in 1919. The society has its headquarters in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Since the onset of this crisis, Lithuanian Red Cross (LRC) has supported people entering Lithuania with emergency relief (water, food, clothes, and hygiene items), essential health services through first aid and referral to additional health services and provision of the multipurpose cash grants to cover their basic needs. Since 24 February 2022, the main LRC focus on the domestic response to population movement has shifted to the developing humanitarian crisis in Ukraine. Migration Department recorded 85,845 arrivals from Ukraine, including 26,674 children. LRC is helping the Government with running registration centres for refugees from Ukraine, searching for accommodation, providing legal assistance, psychosocial support, First Aid, information provision, RFL activities, food, emergency voucher and WASH assistance, covering emergency medication expenses, running Helpline for basic information and Helpdesk in 15 branches.


