As a result of Russian aggression in Ukraine, between 5,000 and 10,000 children have been orphaned, and more than 1 million children have been forced to leave their home to save their lives, and resettled in the other regions of Ukraine. Children are deprived of comprehensive parental attention, love and care, familiar living conditions, an opportunity to communicate with peers and to continue their education because hostilities and the associated destruction of infrastructure continues. Most children from the temporarily occupied territories suffer from a lack of care and a feeling of at least relative safety. Sometimes they even lack nutrition and a roof over their heads.

The Ukrainian and global communities are organizing themselves to help children, women, and other populations affected by war.

The Kids of Ukraine Charitable Foundation was created during the first days of the Russian invasion to help children and their mothers, and has already provided aid to several thousand families in need in Chernihiv, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Luhansk, and Donetsk regions.

The Foundation organized a psychological rehabilitation day camp "Shine Bright" for teenagers in Lviv. The main idea and goal of the camp is to create a safe space for children to live in war conditions, finding and providing tools that will allow children to find and form inner resources of support and adapt in the difficult conditions of war and crisis of society, as well as to preserve and multiply the uniqueness and potential of each child.

Participation in the camp involves team-based and individual work with psychologists, restorative communication practices, learning of spoken English, workshops (handmade), excursions, quests, and sports activities.

Kids of Ukraine CF and the team of kids camp “SviTy” are making every effort to achieve the set goal, to make the camp viable and improve the quality of life of as many children as possible. Therefore, our goal is to create a branched structure of such psychological rehabilitation camps, which will allow us to keep children alive during the war and to restore the traumatized children's psyche during and after the end of hostilities. The Psychological Rehabilitation Club for Families will be available to those in need throughout the calendar year and will be open 365 days a year. A team of psychologists from the Children of Ukraine Charity Fund, the Good Brother Charity Fund, the Institute for Peace and Mutual Understanding, and the Ukrainian Research and Medical Center for Practical Psychology and Social Work of the NAPN "Ukraine" has developed an effective program for effective mental recovery of children. Specialists of the Children of Ukraine Foundation understand the depth and scope of the issue, which will remain relevant for several years to come.

We hereby ask everyone who is not indifferent to join the kids camp “SviTy” project for the future of Ukraine.

We would be grateful to everyone for financial, material or other support of the “SviTy” psychological rehabilitation camp.