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Here’s how cash grants help Ukrainian children to keep learning during wartime

Since the full-scale war in Ukraine broke out in February 2022, over 2,600 schools have been damaged and over more than 400 have been destroyed, according to the Ministry of Education. Children's access to education has also been hindered by power outages caused by attacks on critical infrastructure, cutting heati...

Phone friendship connects youngsters across continents

Maya, a 21-year-old student at Grinnell College in the United States, had always dreamed about helping children. Then, last summer, she finally realised her dream while searching for volunteering opportunities abroad. My Phone Friend, a joint project run by the Ukrainian Volunteer Service and the United Nations Ch...

Ukrainian school reopens thanks to UNICEF grant

A loud bell signals the start of school break and the corridors become filled with children's voices and laughter. Even amid blackouts and air raids, students at this school in Ukraine’s Lvivska region can at last return to the classroom, thanks to a grant from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) used to p...

UNICEF support ensures schools stay open in Ukraine

A school in the city of Oleksandriya, Ukraine is making life a little safer for its students, thanks to assistance from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). As the war in Ukraine enters its second year, UNICEF support has helped Oleksandriya Lyceum No. 17 to build a comfortable bomb shelter. "Before this p...

“I create educational board games to help children and teenagers”

Meeting on a tram, Can you imagine five girls boarding a tram as strangers and leaving together as a team? I can’t. But miracles do happen. This is how I met my teammates – Alina, Yulia, Daryna and Yuliana – for the first time while volunteering in my home city of Kharkiv in spring 2021. That summer, we met for a ...

Music brings a note of comfort amidst war in Ukraine

“When I play the piano, I forget about the war,” says 9-year-old Maksym. He fled eastern Ukraine with his mother and brother as the conflict escalated, and has been sheltering in Lviv, a city in western Ukraine. Maksym gave an impromptu performance of the Ukrainian song Shchedryk to an audience of dozens of wome...