Visiting nurses support families with newborns in Ukraine
A car emblazoned with sunshine and clouds drives up to a house in Khlopchytsi village, in Ukraine’s Lvivska region. Like always, home-visiting nurse Nadiia Shyika is here to visit little Demian, who will soon turn nine months old. Demian is Olha and Volodymyr’s first child, so the young parents often have questions about care, vaccinations and…, “When I arrive and see him smiling, it is the best reward”, Nadiia has worked as a nurse for over a decade and began working as a home-visiting nurse in July 2023. To receive her qualification, she completed special training for nurses through the home-visiting programme ‘Care from Birth at Home’, initiated by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). “UNICEF has been very supportive, including with…