By Veronika | Volunteer
July in Kharkiv showed just how challenging and at the same time crucial childhood can be during wartime. Daily sirens, explosions, and stays in bomb shelters have become part of their daily reality. Limited contact with peers, disrupted education, and constant psychological pressure make each day a test for children.
In these conditions, the League of Young Volunteers creates a space where children can learn, gain knowledge, feel support, and develop their skills. This July, we conducted five days of intensive activities that proved: even during war, children can be given knowledge, strength, and belief in their own abilities.
Even in places where childhood unfolds under the sounds of sirens and explosions, it is possible to nurture a generation that is strong, aware, and compassionate.
Children participated in mine safety training, learning to recognize dangers and save lives, and attended masterclasses that provided them with new skills. They mastered modern technologies — drone operation, which aids rescuers, and personally sorted items for refugees at the River Hub. During a safety quest, they practiced how to act during an air raid, knowledge that is a matter of life and death.
They learned not only to receive help but also to give it. Children handed out walkers for elderly people, prepared crutches and wheelchairs for those who need them most, took part in drone simulation trainings, and practiced actions in emergency situations — fires, injuries, and fainting. They even became little organizers of a big mission — together with UNICEF, they distributed humanitarian kits to families, showing that volunteerism knows no age.
Over these five days, children didn’t just gain new skills — they discovered their own strength. They realized that even in childhood, their actions matter. This is how a generation is born that war cannot break, a generation capable of helping others and eventually rebuilding the country.
We cannot stop the missiles. But we can give children knowledge, safety, and belief in the future. Support the League of Young Volunteers — your help becomes hope where it is needed most. Together, we save childhood.
By Maryna Kolikova | Volunteer
By Maryna Kolikova | Volunteer
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