Sovereign Military Hospitaller
Order of St John of Jerusalem of
Rhodes and of Malta

Aid for refugees

Diplomatic Activities
21/03/2023

Meeting with the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine

On Friday, March 17, the Ambassador of the Sovereign Order of Malta in Ukraine Antonio Gazzanti Pugliese di Cotrone held a working meeting with the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Igor Klimenkom.

14/03/2023

Malteser International providing aid after major fire in world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh

On Sunday 5 March a fire broke out in Bangladesh in the world’s largest refugee camp, near the city of Cox’ Bazar. Around 2,000 shelters have been destroyed and nearly 12,000 people lost their home.

07/03/2023

The Grand Hospitaller visits Poland and Ukraine

The Order of Malta’s Grand Hospitaller Fra' Alessandro de Franciscis’s journey started in Warsaw, Poland, where he met institutional representatives and visited some of the most significant Order of Malta initiatives to assist refugees and those displaced by the war in Ukraine.

01/03/2023

Order of Malta inaugurates a house for displaced persons in Sambir, Ukraine

Malteser Ukraine - the Order of Malta’s Relief Corps in Ukraine - has inaugurated a house for displaced persons in Sambir, near Lviv. The structure, a former clinic, covers almost 800 square metres, has three floors and can accommodate some 100 people.

22/02/2023

War in Ukraine: The Order of Malta expands its support programmes

Since the beginning of the war one year ago, international and national entities and partners of the Order of Malta have distributed half-a-million hot meals to IDPs, provided 19,000 beds in shelters, as well as generators, trained 13,000 people in first aid, and transferred 16 ambulances.

26/01/2023

Order of Malta’s Italian and Romanian Relief Corps mission in Ukraine

The delegations of the Order of Malta’s Italian and Romanian Relief Corps (CISOM and SAMR) went to Ukraine, in the south-western region of Kamianets-Podilskyi, to visit some refugee centres, humanitarian-aid warehouses and meet local civil and religious authorities.

24/01/2023

Ukraine: Working together to heal invisible wounds

The Orders of St. John have joined forces again for the first time in centuries to help traumatized children and adolescents in Ukraine.

Latest interventions
01/12/2022

The Grand Hospitaller in Ukraine

On November 28-29, an international delegation of the Order of Malta, led by the Grand Hospitaller Fra’ Alessandro de Franciscis, visited the Berehove relief unit of the Order in Ukraine.

Diplomatic Activities
11/10/2022

After new bombings in Ukraine, in Lviv there is no power and food is scarce

"Bombings resumed yesterday in all Ukraine, in the east as well as the west, mainly in Kyiv but also cities such as Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk. Public buildings and power plants were hit".