On Monday 18 September, the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) signed a €2 million grant agreement to finance housing repairs for more than 500 vulnerable Ukrainian households in war-affected areas.
This is the CEB’s first operation in Ukraine since the country joined the Bank on 15 June this year.
The homes in question were declared uninhabitable, but assessments carried out by CRS and Caritas established that they were “structurally...