The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is an international, independent humanitarian aid organization. The mission of IRC is to help people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and gain control of their future. The IRC is now at work in over 40 crisis-affected countries. The IRC has been responding to humanitarian crises in Europe since 2015, when we launched an emergency response to the peak in migration in Greece and relaunched operations in Serbia. The IRC launched an emergency response to the war in Ukraine in February 2022, working directly and with local partners to reach those most in need. In Poland, we are providing cash assistance to the most vulnerable households, improving access to legal assistance and providing a variety of tailor-made protection services, including safe spaces for women and children. Responding along the entire arc of the crisis, we are responding in Ukraine and Moldova, and running activities targeting Ukrainian refugees in Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Czechia and Bulgaria, as well as in Germany, Italy, Greece and the UK.