Estonian Refugee Council and Peaasi.ee train twenty specialists, who will lead the support groups of the evidence-based adaptation program created by psychologist Paul Sterk over the next t

Estonian Refugee Council (ERC) is a value-driven non-governmental EU-certified humanitarian organization.

In this spring we saw, that for refugees arriving in Estonia, it may be unaffordable to purchase school supplies or clothes for their children, among other essential things. That’s why we decided to start giving out one-time financial support with the help of our donators.

Originally from Tartu but living in Tallinn for the last 20 years, Meelis joined our consulting team on the advice of a colleague from the National Library in March.

• In total, we have mediated over 20 million euros cash based support to people in Ukraine.&

• We started with the workshops of the entrepreneurship program, which was opened by President Kersti Kaljulaid. Already two workshops have taken place, both workshops are available 

Since the end of April, we have organised group counselling for Ukrainians all over Estonia on four topics: adaptation, employment, digital skills and supporting a child’s adaptation.

• Today is World Refugee Day. According to a report by the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency at the end of 2021, there are almost 90 million displaced people in the world.