Waterford Red Cross are appealing for more help, as they prepare to welcome Ukrainian refugees.
The Irish Red Cross is responsible for organising the care and accommodation of refugees.
Waterford branch secretary, Maria Condon says they only have a team of 10 volunteers locally at the moment:
"We're being faced with a massive, massive task now at the moment. Apparently there are 100,000 refugees that are coming to Ireland.
"So far 20,000 people have pledged to take them into their homes.
"The Red Cross are going to be responsible for the housing, for schools, for GPs, getting them dentists, providing them with things that they might need.
"So, it's a massive take-on, with very little people."
The local branch of the humanitarian organisation say that as well as more volunteers, they desperately need a dedicated building to use as a fulltime base.
"We just need somewhere that we can open up as a base," Maria told Damien Tiernan on Déise Today, "so that when the Ukrainian refugees come in, we'll be able to greet them and sort them out with everything that needs to be done.
"We also need somewhere we can store donations because we're getting a lot of people looking to donate clothes, nappies, and everything that will be there for them when they first arrive.
"We're also hoping that we'll be able to use the building so that we can open it up and keep it as a meeting place."
Continuing, Maria explained that what they have at the moment just isn't adequate:
"All we're doing at the moment is we're booking a room - well, we're booking the Scout Hall up on the Yellow Road for just one night a week.
"So, we only have it for a couple of hours on a Tuesday night so that's where we're based at the moment, doing all our training and our own work.
"We desperately, desperately need [a building]."
They're asking anyone who has a unit to let in the city, to contact them.
