OREANDA-NEWS. September 10, 2008. Flood-hit people are provided with charity assistance not only from Ukraine but from abroad as well, the press-service of the Labor Ministry told.

Both individuals and legal entities transfer money to special accounts opened by the government.
Thus, as of early September 8, 2008, the charity account of the Labor Ministry for assisting flood-hit people was transferred UAH 30.656 million. Only over the past day UAH 533 thousand were transferred.

Ukrainians also use such type of assistance as money transfer with the help of mobile phones. Totally, the hot-lines received over 256 thousand calls and over 325 thousands SMS messages.

Other countries also joined the charity action. In particular, foreign currency account #26007010041123 opened by the OJSC UkrEximBank was transferred over USD 1.2 million and EUR 58 thousand. About USD 655 thousand and EUR 5 thousand were received from Poland, EUR 53 thousand were received from Latvia, USD 2 thousand - from Slovakia, USD 50 thousand from Korea, USD 500 thousand from China.