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23.01.2025
Unable to Speak or Sleep: The Real Story of Zlata and Nazar from Kryvyi Rih
Zlata and her brother Nazar live in Kryvyi Rih. In the summer of 2023, a Russian missile struck their house. The children survived, but suffered serious psychological trauma.
It made the girl unable to speak for two days, she developed sleep problems and could no longer fall asleep at night. Her brother completely withdrew into himself. Then their mother Yaroslava decided to ask for help from the “Voices of Children” Foundation.
The day a missile strike happened, the “Voices of Children” team came to my house, and we talked. After a month, I realized that I could not bring my children back to their normal lives on my own. So, I reached out for help to “Voices of Children”,
At first, the brother and sister attended camps and art therapy, and later — consultations with psychologists. According to Yaroslava, the children began to “come alive”.
Zlata and Nazar became the heroes of the All-Ukrainian social campaign “Do You Hear What This Is About?”.
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