More than 6,000 children and parents received help: Voices of Children December report

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The Voices of Children Charitable Foundation continues to help families with children throughout Ukraine, providing them with humanitarian, psychological, rehabilitation and advocacy support.

So, as of December 2022, the organization has:

52 professionals in the team;
64 psychologists;
700 volunteers who responded from all over the world;
9 locations in Kyiv, Lviv, Truskavets, Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Berehove, Kryvyi Rih, Kharkiv and Vysokyi, where our psychologists are constantly working;
4 mobile teams of psychological assistance in the Kyiv and Mykolaiv regions;
more than 6,000 children and parents to whom the foundation provided help and support.

3 million 832 thousand hryvnias were spent on psychological support this month.

One of the significant achievements this year was the work of the Children's Advisory Council of the Foundation. It’s important for us to hear children’s opinion and also to include children into the process of approving decisions and activities that concern them.

A training program for 29 Ukrainian teenagers, that lasted for several months, ended this month. We covered many topics: children’s rights, gender equality, public speaking, learning languages, time management etc. We studied the experience of other forms of children self-organization. After the program, the children had the opportunity to suggest their projects for support and financing by the Foundation. The Voices of Children approved each of them. Some participants also joined our Children's Council, and now we have 11 members who are actively involved in the work of the Foundation.

We use various opportunities to discuss the protection of children’s rights in times of war. This month, Olena Rozvadovska, the Head of the Foundation’s Board, held a workshop on “Children’s rights and the war in Ukraine” at the Seventh Human Rights Non-Conference, organized by the human rights community in Ukraine. During the workshop, human rights defenders were able to discuss the evacuation of children from the frontline and occupied territories, their deportation to the territory of Russia, and violations of children’s rights during the war in general. At the end of the meeting, the key recommendations of the UN Committee on improving the situation of children in Ukraine were noted.