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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Camps

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.

Surviving a Missile Strike and His Mother’s Injury: The Story of 15-Year-Old Matvii

Surviving a Missile Strike and His Mother’s Injury: The Story of 15-Year-Old Matvii

Matvii was a participant of the “Voices Camp” in Zakarpattia, organized by the “Voices of Children” Foundation and the Olena Zelenska Foundation.

A Son’s Wait: 12-Year-Old Danylo from Kharkiv Hopes for His Father’s Return from War

A Son’s Wait: 12-Year-Old Danylo from Kharkiv Hopes for His Father’s Return from War

The war forced Danylo and his mother to leave their native Kharkiv for Ivano-Frankivsk. However, the boy is very worried about his dad, a soldier on the front lines.

Learning to Walk Again After Injury: the Story of 12-year-old Valeriia from Chernihiv

Learning to Walk Again After Injury: the Story of 12-year-old Valeriia from Chernihiv

12-year-old Valeriia from Chernihiv was seriously injured during the Russian attack. A few months before, her brother had died at the front.

How to Survive Russian Deportation and not Break Down: the Story of 17-year-old Valeriia

How to Survive Russian Deportation and not Break Down: the Story of 17-year-old Valeriia

Although 17-year-old Valeriia appears to be an ordinary teenager, she has endured a year and a half of Russian military occupation and deportation.

Solomon

Solomon is 10. He is from Kyiv. His family is not going to leave the country and sincerely believes that they will return to the capital in just a few weeks. “How can we not come back if our cat and dad are there?”, – he says. The boy got very interested in the figure.

Maria

Maria is only 10. In a few weeks, she turns 11. The girl is not waiting for birthday presents, because she thinks that now is not the best time for them… In refugee shelter, arranged by our foundation, Maria has many friends. She speaks to new people without fear. But most of all, she is.

Mykhailo

My name is Mykhailo, I am 10 years old. We did not leave our home, because if the villages are empty, it will be easier for enemy troops to enter them.

“We’re Waiting for the War to End so We Can Go Back to School”: Everyday Life of a Large Family from the Donetsk Region

“We’re Waiting for the War to End so We Can Go Back to School”: Everyday Life of a Large Family from the Donetsk Region

For the past nine years, Serhii, his wife, and their four children have been living amid war. The family lives on the outskirts of Kramatorsk—the administrative center of the Donetsk region. As Serhii and his eldest son say, they’ve gotten used to the sounds of explosions since 2014. But the younger children still flinch when they hear the thunder of constant shelling that the Russian army keeps firing at Kramatorsk and nearby towns.

How an 18-Year-Old Became the Guardian of Four Children

How an 18-Year-Old Became the Guardian of Four Children

After witnessing his mother die from a shell explosion, Viacheslav Yalov became the guardian of his younger siblings. He took them out of their village in the Donetsk region and does everything he can to ensure they have a bright future—one without pain, but full of opportunities for growth.

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