The CEOE Foundation begins channelling humanitarian aid from Spanish companies to Ukraine

The CEOE Foundation has reactivated the solidarity programme Companies that Help (EQA, for its Spanish acronym), which was initially launched in response to the pandemic in 2020. Its purpose is to address, at this difficult time, the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and along the borders with Russia, where the refugees' influx is concentrated right now.

Once again, the aim is to channel the solidarity and aid that the organisations, sectors, and companies that are part of CEOE have been offering since this conflict began.  These respond to the needs that have been identified mainly as a result of the dialogue with the Spanish Government and the autonomous communities, within their emergency plan, and with collaborating organisations from the third sector.

In order to ensure that any action or contribution has the utmost safeguards, as the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) itself advises and recommends, two channels of preferential collaboration have been set up to date.

These are direct donations of goods and services as well as monetary donations, which will be coordinated by the CEOE Foundation following the guidelines of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, and of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, for use in refugee camps located in bordering countries, as well as for the transfer, reception, and assistance of refugees in our country.

To this end, we are already collaborating directly with social organisations operating in the conflict area, who work with the CEOE Foundation on a regular basis and who have extensive experience in Ukraine and in humanitarian emergencies.

The CEOE Foundation is confident that, through this new phase of the Companies that Help project, we can add to and complement the efforts already being made by the Government, in another fruitful example of public-private collaboration. Our aim is to alleviate the suffering and hardship of all those men, women, and children whose lives have been shattered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.