Ukraine

Since 2017, David Gvineria has been a technical child protection programme lead at UNICEF Albania. He covers a wide range of child protection issues, with a focus on children's protection from online sexual abuse and trafficking. David recently returned from his emergency deployment in Ukraine. We asked him to share his personal experience of…, Read the latest on Ukraine, Read the latest on UNICEF's response to the crisis in Ukraine

Since 2017, David Gvineria has been a technical child protection programme lead at UNICEF Albania. He covers a wide range of child protection issues, with a focus on children's protection from online sexual abuse and trafficking. David recently returned from his emergency deployment in Ukraine. We asked him to share his personal experience of…, Read the latest on Ukraine, Read the latest on UNICEF's response to the crisis in Ukraine

We asked Tatyana Fannouch, a Child Protection Officer working in Ukraine, to share her experience of daily life in the war-torn country and how the devastating conflict impacted her professional as well as personal life. Tatyana, where are you right now, and how is the situation there? Now we are in our office that moved to Lviv. It's a big city…, Child Protection in the time of war, As a professional in the area of Child Protection, what are your priorities right now? Some of the regions are heavily shelled and people need life-saving services. We developed an emergency work plan for six months. We started a lot of procurements, a lot of supplies, and we continue to work with the government as well. So, now this is a…, Read the latest on Ukraine, Read the latest on UNICEF's response to the crisis in Ukraine

Gregor von Medeazza served as Emergency Coordinator for the Ukraine Refugee Response in the Republic of Moldova. He has been with UNICEF for 13 years, and the last 3 and a half, he is the Deputy Representative (Programme) in UNICEF's Namibia Country Office. Here, he talks about his work - and the poignant moments when children are safe again after…, UNICEF’s immediate response, I would divide our work and the refugee situation in Moldova into two phases. In the first days of the war, the number of refugees was very high, peaking at 30,000 people entering the country every day. The first priority was to immediately dispatch emergency supplies and provide initial humanitarian assistance to refugee children and families,…, Safe at last: allowing children to be children again, In my own experience, the Blue Dot is a place where children can be safe for the first time after sometimes traumatic experiences and often an extremely stressful escape. For children, Blue Dots provide a safe, warm, welcoming space to rest and play, at a time when their world has been abruptly turned upside down in fear and panic, and they are…, Leaving no one behind, In the largest Refugee Accommodation Center in Moldova, MoldEXPO, I met a Roma family with five children under the age of twelve. Ezmeralda, the mother, told us that their family was struggling with a legal issue. They didn't have the proper paperwork needed to cross the border into the EU. They had walked and hitchhiked hundreds of miles to get…, A small country, enormous solidarity, The war in Ukraine is an unbearable tragedy, and a child protection disaster. Moldova is the poorest country in Europe and now has the highest per capita rate of refugees. Despite the dire situation, it is uplifting to see the solidarity and compassion with which Moldova, its people and the thousands of volunteers involved have been welcoming the…, Read the latest on Ukraine, Read the latest on UNICEF's response to the crisis in Ukraine , or  learn more about the Blue Dots Access the latest data and figures on refugee situation in Ukraine

UNICEF is on the ground in Ukraine providing support to children and families in desperate need of safety, stability and protection. With humanitarian needs rapidly increasing, urgent capacity in all technical areas of specialization is needed. Considering the urgent need to scale up our emergency response in Ukraine and neighboring countries, we…, War in Ukraine - "I have never faced such a complexity of child protection issues",  , Gregor von Medeazza was deployed as Emergency Coordinator at the Ukraine-Moldova border,  , Tatyana Fannouch is working as a Child Protection Officer, currently based in Lviv, Ukraine.,   While the the situation in Ukraine and neighboring countries is extremely dire, and we are scaling up efforts to support children and their families fleeing the war, UNICEF remains present in humanitarian emergencies around the world , committed to continue the delivery of critical life-saving support to children and young people.