Assistance for Children and Parents

We respond to children's diverse needs, listen to them, and provide timely, professional help tailored to their requests.

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Strengthening Communities and Children's Institutions

Together with communities and local businesses, we create inclusive spaces, playgrounds, sensory rooms, and hubs for children and teenagers.

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Professional Support

We strengthen international connections and initiate our own initiatives aimed at amplifying children's voices and participation.

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Advocacy

We amplify the voices of children through social campaigns, research and analytics.

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Childhood Center

The Foundation will build a large-scale rehabilitation center for children and parents affected by the war.

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Our camps are, first and foremost, psychosocial support for children — delivered as a residential program.

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Children's stories

Here we have collected only a small part of the children's stories, because most of the stories have not yet been told.

We want there to be more children's smiles next to the war, so we try to respond to each child's problems individually. Thanks to charitable contributions, we conduct art therapy classes for some, and provide individual psychological assistance for others. We help some with PTSD treatment, others with problems of education, etc.

In His Mother’s Hugs: How 7-Year-Old Rodion from Dnipro Is Learning Not to Be Afraid of Explosions

In His Mother’s Hugs: How 7-Year-Old Rodion from Dnipro Is Learning Not to Be Afraid of Explosions

Rodion is seven. He loves sculpting imaginary little figures, inventing entire worlds for them, playing with friends in the yard, and falling asleep cuddled up to his French bulldog named Keks, because the dog is the same color as milk chocolate. Rodion is very peaceful and often philosophizes. For example, he is convinced that there should always be people nearby who love you.

When Dad Watches Over from Heaven: the Story of Five-Year-Old Mariika

When Dad Watches Over from Heaven: the Story of Five-Year-Old Mariika

Five-year-old Mariika’s favorite toy is a snail with a sad smile. She takes it everywhere with her. No matter how much her mom has tried to persuade her to sew on a cheerful smile instead, Mariika refuses. She says it is her “sadness snail.” Every night, the little girl hugs her toy and whispers to her father, “Dad, come back.” It helps her feel calmer, because Mariika believes her dad is always nearby, watching over her from heaven.

Varia’s Two Homes

Varia’s Two Homes

If it weren’t for the war, Varia—short for Varvara—would probably never have thought that a person could have two homes at once. She is 14 years old. She is from Zaporizhzhia, but she has been living in Truskavets for nearly three years. Her childhood stayed behind in her hometown, while here, in a new place, her adolescence continues, with all its joys and challenges.

Support That Restores Balance: The Story of Liza and Dasha, Sisters from Oleshky

Support That Restores Balance: The Story of Liza and Dasha, Sisters from Oleshky

Liza and Dasha live in a dormitory in Kyiv. In the room they share with their mother, there is one table for all of them, beds lined up side by side, and neatly folded clothes on the wardrobe shelves. It’s a small, 35-square-meter space. A shared kitchen and shower are down the hall. However, none of it resembles the home where the girls were born and raised.

A Home You Always Carry With You: Marichka’s Story

A Home You Always Carry With You: Marichka’s Story

Marichka says that home feels like a hug. Like the warmth of a heater in winter. Like tea in the kitchen and conversations that make you feel at ease. She was born in Kamianske, started school in Feodosia, graduated in Lviv, and eventually came to Kyiv to study at university. A tangled geography, yet each of these cities has become a part of her and shaped the person she is today.

“I Don’t Want to Leave Kharkiv. Who, If Not Us, Will Rebuild It?”: Ania Kovalenko’s Story

“I Don’t Want to Leave Kharkiv. Who, If Not Us, Will Rebuild It?”: Ania Kovalenko’s Story

Kharkiv is a frontline city where Ania grew up. At the beginning of the full-scale war, she associated it only with explosions and gloomy buildings. Now, she associates it with the people who create and keep life going in the city, no matter what.

How the Pankeiev Brothers Find Freedom through Creativity and Friendship

How the Pankeiev Brothers Find Freedom through Creativity and Friendship

Semen and Mykyta Pankeiev are actors, as they say about themselves. One loves drawing and runs a YouTube channel, while the other is passionate about cooking and writing. Together, they lived through Russian occupation and began a new life in Mykolaiv. There are five people in their family. Their sister is already grown up, their mom is wonderful and very kind, and their dad is strong—that’s how the boys describe their family.

Not Afraid to Live: The Story of 12-Year-Old Yevа from Frontline Sumy

Not Afraid to Live: The Story of 12-Year-Old Yevа from Frontline Sumy

Talking to Yeva is a real pleasure. She is smart, open, and genuinely curious. She never gets lost in her answers, has her own opinions, and always knows what she wants to say. She is only 12, yet there is a sense of maturity in her words. One that arrived far earlier than it should have. Yeva herself feels how much she has grown. And it’s easy to understand why: too many events have happened in just four years of her childhood.

Finding Herself in the Shadow of War: Vesna’s Story

Finding Herself in the Shadow of War: Vesna’s Story

Fourteen-year-old Vesna lives in Kharkiv, where the sounds of a big, busy city intertwine with the echoes of air raid sirens. She is a girl searching for her place in the world while balancing dreams, responsibilities, and the realities of war. Her story is that of an ordinary teenager striving for self-expression despite the challenges of time and circumstance.

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