Dignity care for children with diagnosis. 2

For most of us, diapers are a symbol of early childhood that quickly disappears from our lives along with a child's first confident steps. But for families raising children with severe developmental disabilities, this hygiene product becomes a companion for years, and sometimes for life.

The beneficiaries of the "Everybody Can" foundation have different diagnoses, but they share a common problem: their bodies do not obey them. The disease does not take age into account. It simply deprives them of the ability to control basic functions. In such cases, diapers are the only way to keep the skin healthy, the bed dry, and the child protected from painful diaper rash and infections.

Almost all of our wards come from families who lost their homes due to the war. They took their children away under shelling, leaving all their possessions behind to save their lives. Now, renting accommodation in unfamiliar cities, parents are faced with a terrible choice: buy food or a pack of diapers?

State aid often does not cover even a third of their needs. And the needs are enormous: one child needs 120 to 200 diapers per month. When every hryvnia counts in a family, diapers become a luxury item, even though they should be a basic right to dignity.

The lack of hygiene products is not just discomfort, it is:

- Social isolation: a child cannot go for a walk or visit the doctor.
- Humiliation: for a teenager with a disability, feeling dry is a matter of self-respect.
- Health: without timely diaper changes, bedsores and inflammation occur, which are even more difficult and expensive to treat.

We are launching a fundraiser to provide 9 of our wards with enough diapers to last them two months. These are children who fight every day for the right to simply exist.

Help us give them this simple but much-needed comfort.