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On May 4, 2023, Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, will hold a large press conference in Kyiv.

The Commissioner is ready to speak about the atrocities he saw with his own eyes: torture chambers in the liberated regions of Ukraine, mass burials in Izyum, testimonies of people who were in occupation and who know from their own experience what the conditions in the torture chambers were like, the return of Ukrainian children kidnapped by the russian federation, communication with the russian Commissioner for Human Rights regarding humanitarian issues, the results of this communication, the return of Ukrainian soldiers who were in russian captivity, problems with the return of civilian hostages currently held by the russian federation.

Accreditation is required.

• children
• military
• occupation
• prisoners
• russian crimes
• Kyiv

Luke Tomich, an American neurosurgeon with Ukrainian roots, will come to Lviv for the third time to operate on Ukrainian children with brain diseases. The neurosurgeon will work at St. Nicholas Hospital for Children from April 30 to May 6. Together with his Ukrainian colleagues, he has already planned to perform surgeries and hold a series of consultations.

The doctor’s visit will be supported by the Razom for Ukraine charitable foundation, founded by Luke Tomich with his Ukrainian wife in 2014.

• children
• doctors
• Lviv

In Horodnya, Chernihiv region, construction of a multifunctional educational center has started in a shelter of a school. This is “first aid” for education in communities affected by the war. The center located in the shelter is a safe space for learning, where the educational process will not be interrupted by air raid alerts. The center is comfortable and cozy, it has furniture, electronic devices, books, and other learning aids. Two more such centers will be set up in Anysiv and Kolychivka of Ivanivka community, Chernihiv region.

Digital educational centers for children are already in operation in Kyiv and Chernihiv regions.

For reference: Digital educational centers are locations for learning and leisure, located on school grounds (with some exceptions).The work of centers is managed by mentors. In particular, centers provide entertainment and relaxation activities.

• children
• Chernihiv
• Kyiv

Lviv Defense Cluster manufactures light body armor and hands them over to the women in the military. Instead of the standard 20 kilograms, the body armor made by Lviv Defense Cluster weighs only 7-8 kilograms. Recently, female border guards serving in Kharkiv region received such bulletproof vests.

In addition, children’s protective kits featuring helmets and bulletproof vests, which are manufactured by Lviv Defense Cluster, are also in active use on the frontlines. For example, in Donetsk region, every crew of “White Angel” — local police officers who help to evacuate people — have children’s helmets and bulletproof vests made by Lviv Defense Cluster.

For reference: Lviv Defense Cluster unites specialists of defense enterprises, volunteers and production facilities from all over the country to provide the Defenders of Ukraine with high-quality and well tested body armor. The Cluster has its own laboratory for testing finished products.

• children
• military
• women

To help children and their parents overcome the psychological implications of the occupation, mobile teams of psychologists from the Children’s Voices charity foundation visit villages and small towns with no specialists, suitable institutions, or stable public transportation. They organize individual and group psychological and psychosocial support for children and parents.

Currently, such mobile teams of psychologists are working in Kyiv and the region, Mykolaiv and Vysoke. During the year of the full-scale war, the foundation provided psychological and psychosocial assistance to 4,700 children and more than 1,800 adults.

• children
• psychological support
• Kyiv
• Mykolaiv

On April 13, a “Classrooms of Safety” will be opened in one of the educational institutions of Bila Tserkva with the participation of employees of the State Emergency Service. Rescuers will teach children the rules of mine and fire safety, as well as tell them how to provide medical aid.

For reference: The government approved the opening of “Classrooms of Safety” throughout Ukraine last September. These classrooms are well-equipped to provide fire and mine safety training. Among other things, children are taught what to do in the event of an emergency and during air raid alerts. Specialists of the State Emergency Service and the National Police, medical workers, combatants and other experts are involved in the work of “Classrooms of Safety.”

• children
• Kyiv

A modular kindergarten now opened in Zahaltsi village in the Kyiv region. It can accommodate 55 children at a time. The facility is fully equipped with the necessary furniture, appliances, kitchen, and generator. The modular kindergarten was installed with the assistance of the Hungarian Ecumenical Charity Relief Service Ukraine. 

“About 30 children are already attending the kindergarten, and there are also classes for 1st and 2nd graders. The modular kindergarten is a temporary solution to ensure a continuous educational process, having its next step a comprehensive reconstruction of educational institutions,” the Ministry of Education and Science reports.

• children
• occupation
• Kyiv

Since the beginning of the all-out war, volunteers of “Save Ukraine” charitable foundation have returned more than forty children who were deported to the russian federation and occupied Crimea. They even had to organize rescue operations to save the children. The volunteers are also evacuating children from the war zone.

For reference: according to Children of War, a state platform for searching children, as of March 20, more than 16,000 Ukrainian children were deported by the occupiers.

• children
• russian crimes
• volunteers
• Kyiv

NGO “Center for Civic Education “Almenda” has been documenting the militarization and destruction of the identity of children the occupied Crimea for 9 years, and with the beginning of the full-scale invasion— in the occupied territories of Kherson and Zaporizhia regions as well.

The organization points out that today it is already possible to single out 10 tools with which russia destroys the identity of children in the occupied territories.

Journalists are invited to find out more about these tools and the conditions, which students in the occupied territories find themselves in, from Valentyna Potapova, Head of NGO “Center for Civic Education “Almenda” and former teacher from Crimea.

• children
• russian crimes

On March 16, a regional conference entitled “Alternative forms of family care: reasons for the decrease and seeking opportunities” will be held in Kyiv. The conference will feature discussion, in particular, on how to facilitate family-based care and support parents. Also, the study “Reasons for the shortage of alternative forms of family care and difficulties in functioning” will be presented at the event.

The participants of the conference will include: Uliana Tokarieva, Deputy Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine; Serhiy Lukashov, National Director of SOS Children’s Villages Ukraine; Oksana Dashchakivska, Research Coordinator, Candidate of Political Sciences.

Representatives of social services, foster parent teachers who practice family-based care will also join the discussion. The media representatives will have an opportunity to talk to them and hear the families’ stories.

• children
• Kyiv