Rehabilitation for 35 Deaf Children from Ukraine

Our Fund has already organized 6 rehabilitation wellness camps for children with hearing and speech disabilities. These children are now on a path to recovery.

Currently our volunteers are raising additional funds to support the next rehabilitation camp for 50 children recovering after cochlear implant surgery and who look to our organization to help them with their recovery.

While our rehabilitation programs directly depend on the financial support we receive from our valued sponsors, we and our partners used the time between camps to open an art-studio, where children after cochlear implantation surgery can develop through art-therapy (draw, dance, and create).

Art therapy serves as an important supplement to the rehabilitation activities. It helps children with development, helps them express their thoughts, share feelings, and work through fears. 

We plan to hold our next rehabilitation camp in May or June of 2020. All of our successes became possible thanks to your support, dear sponsors. We express our deepest gratitude to all of you and hope that together we will continue to do good and beneficial activities for our children.

Kind regards,

Project manager,

Larysa Kuzmenko

Inclusive theater for children with hearing disabilities

Inclusive theater for children with hearing disabilities

In September we organized our sixth rehabilitation camp “Verba-6” for children with hearing and speech disabilities. The camp was held at a health center “Dachny”, where 25 more children successfully completed rehabilitation program, while their parents gained valuable communication and coaching skills.

With support from our Fund and organization “Rastem zdorovymy” (Grow in health), we participated in a project titled “Inclusive theater for children with hearing disabilities”. In August a number of young graduates from our rehabilitation program performed in a children’s play “Little sorceresses”, presented at Kyiv’s Children’s Theater. Young actors demonstrated their achievements as well as their acting skills. They worked hard, making costumes, creating decorations, learning choreography and their lines. Play’s plot was centered around the wonder of hearing.

Through this project we would like to educate as many families as possible that deafness can be reversed if a timely cochlear implant surgery is performed and followed by an effective rehabilitation program.

We express our sincere gratitude to our sponsors, who continue giving children an opportunity to live full and healthy lives!

 Best regards,

 Project manager

 Kuzmenko Larysa