Children’s Hope: Breathe to Live

In November 2018, Kyivstar, in partnership with the Ukrainian Charity Exchange, launched the ‘Children’s Hope’ project to help children with heart conditions and cancer who are undergoing treatment in Ukrainian hospitals. Despite the war, the programme continues to operate and provide medical facilities with state-of-the-art equipment. In 2023, the project was expanded to help children with burns, and in the summer of 2025, the initiative began supporting paediatric intensive care units.

In July 2026, as part of the ‘Paediatric Intensive Care’ programme, assistance will be provided to the Municipal Non-Profit Organisation ‘Lviv Territorial Medical Association “Multidisciplinary Clinical Hospital for Intensive Care and Emergency Medical Services”’, which includes St Nicholas Hospital.

St Nicholas Hospital is one of Ukraine’s leading paediatric medical centres, where children with the most severe injuries and illnesses are saved every day. It is here that young patients are treated following severe burns, complex operations, injuries and other critical conditions requiring constant monitoring and intensive care.

In the intensive care unit, every minute counts. For many children, being able to breathe unaided is the first and most important step towards recovery. Thanks to charitable donations from Kyivstar subscribers, consumables for paediatric respiratory support systems — breathing circuits and nFlow systems — will be purchased. These are used to provide non-invasive respiratory support and oxygen therapy to children in critical condition. It is these consumables that ensure the continuous operation of medical equipment and enable doctors to provide the necessary care to young patients in a timely manner.

Thanks to this purchase, the department will be supplied with the necessary consumables. This will help doctors to provide prompt care to children at the most critical stages of their treatment, and give young patients a better chance of recovery and a return to a full life.