# Polish Humanitarian Action (PAH)

> Polish Humanitarian Action (PAH) was the first non-Ukrainian responder inside Ukraine after February 2022, drawing on a decade of operations there since 2014.

Polish Humanitarian Action (PAH)

PAH runs humanitarian emergency response, food security and water-and-sanitation programmes in Ukraine, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen, funded by the Polish government, the EU and private donors. Its Pajacyk school-feeding programme is one of Europe's longest-running.

Polish proximity plus a decade of operations inside Ukraine since 2014 meant PAH was already on the ground when the full-scale invasion began in February 2022. Founder Janina Ochojska is now an MEP, but the organisation remains operational and independent.

https://www.pah.org.pl