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15.03.2023
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The unique book and more: Voices of Children February report

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 February 2023, the organization has:
  • 53 professionals in the team;
  • 78 psychologists;
  • 750 volunteers who responded from all over the world;
  • 10 locations in Kyiv, Lviv, Truskavets, Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Berehove, Kryvyi Rih, Kharkiv, Vysokyi and Mykolaiv, where our psychologists are constantly working;
  • 2 mobile teams of psychological assistance in the Kyiv region;
  • almost 2500 children and parents to whom the foundation provided help and support.
In total, we spent 5 252 000 hryvnas on all programs this month.
On February 22, to mark the anniversary of russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Voices of Children Charitable Foundation organized the “War through the Voices of Children” media event. At this event, a unique book of the same name was presented – “War through the Voices of Children”. It contains about 100 emotional quotes that demonstrate children’s paradoxical view of war. The Foundation collected quotes throughout the year of the full-scale war, and each of them was illustrated by designers, artists, photographers and other celebrities from different parts of the world. Among those who participated in the creation of images are the illustrators Nikita Titov, Serhii Maidukov, Oleksandr Grekhov, Iryna Vale, singer Jamala and her son Rahman, singer Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, chef Yevhen Klopotenko.
The book can be ordered both in Ukraine, and abroad. Funds from its sale will be directed to the psychological support of Ukrainian children.
Besides, together with the Kharkiv Institute of Social Research, we presented a report on russia’s crimes against Ukrainian children and the protection of their rights during the year of the war.
We also consider it necessary to clarify our position regarding the protection and observance of children’s rights in Ukraine:
  • issued a vision of the first priority steps for the deinstitutionalization of children’s residential institutions in Ukraine;
  • advocated the immediate creation of a procedure for the evacuation of children from the front line, which is especially important for Bakhmut, the Donetsk region, where hundreds of children are under constant shelling.
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