Helping children and teenagers in shelters

The war has changed the fate of all of us, it is hard for everyone in their own way, we are all looking for salvation for our psyche, living in constant tension, in fear for the lives of our relatives, for our own children. However, there are children around us who have no one to be afraid of, no one to care for, protect and love. These young and slightly older children are experiencing all the horrors of war on their own, struggling with fears, anxieties, uncertainty and a huge pile of other things that a child who does not live at home with loving family members, but in a shelter, together with other children who, for various reasons, do not have a mother, father or other close person to take them home and take care of them 

These children and teenagers are desperately looking for and need human warmth, care, love, and understanding. They need an adult by their side who would listen, comfort and advise them, teach them everything they will have to face outside the walls of the orphanage when they enter adulthood. We want to warm and protect these children, who have been treated so unfairly by fate, to help and support them in their difficult lives. 

For many years, our employees and volunteers have been visiting these children and teenagers in orphanages and boarding schools, spending a lot of time with them and helping them solve their problems. Many of these institutions are located close to areas where active hostilities are ongoing, which adds to the work with children, as it has a very negative impact on their psyche and worldview. To be able to devote even more time to children and teenagers in orphanages, to teach and help them with their daily social and domestic issues, to share our warmth with them, to take care of them as if they were our own, we need funds. 

Thanks to this project, we will be able to pay for the work of 3 specialists (a social worker, a social worker/project manager and an accountant) for three months, who will travel to 4 boarding schools, 2 of which are located in Lviv region, another in Dnipro and Zakarpattia regions, to children who are deprived of family warmth and care, work with them, teach them, help and support them in everything.

Such support will dramatically change the lives of these children, provide them with resources, skills and abilities to live independently, regardless of their circumstances, give them hope and confidence in the future, and most importantly – warmth, care, support and love, a sense that they are needed. 

We invite you to join the good deed and together make the lives of those less fortunate better by giving faith in goodness and love!

*The project photos do not show the children's faces, but they need our support and care.