By Anna Kalmatskaya | Project Leader
Our dearest friends!
We are glad to share with you the latest news about our project for internally displaced families in Ukraine that is going on thanks to your sincere support.
As September was marked by the academic year beginning in Ukraine, it was our main focus for autumn integration work with IDP families. We really wanted to help our beneficiaries to smoothly enter the stressful time of academic year beginning. Especially for refugees it is many times connected with difficulties in adapting to new school, establishing relationships with new teachers, the impact of a heavy psychological climate in the family on the children progress.
So we conducted a series of integration workshops for internally displaced parents on a topic, discussing all possible challenges that new academic year can bring. And on September 13 we organized holiday for IDP families and large families, together with Kiev City family center. We congratulated 50 children with new academic year by bright concert, banquet and providing them with sets of necessary school supplies.
One of our beneficiaries that faced many challenges with new academic year is Victoria and Pavel family. They moved from Donetsk City after war started and moved first to Berdyansk City, then to Kyiv with their three children: 10 years old Alisa, 7 years old Vadim and 3 years old Maksym. Father has second group of disability, but he has to work hard now in construction company seeing his family only once a week. All children are sick with bronchial asthma, that’s why wife Victoria has to stay home.
Children went through many difficulties changing few schools during one year. Daughter Alisa and son Vadim felt everyday discomfort because of teachers’ constant emphasizing that children were from Donetsk. Alisa says she misses her first school in Donetsk, her school mates, and wants to come back, but her school was bombed. Alisa is talented artist but she has heart sickness.
And on September 18, Women’s Federation became a co-organizer of Father’s Day held on a main street of the Ukraine capital. The action was organized on a City level by Kiev City administration. Women’s Federation took special care about IDP families, preparing gifts for children, letters of gratitude for fathers of many children and holding bright master-classes for families.
Thank you once again for all your help and have a very happy Christmas holidays!
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