If to talk about crisis conditions of the former residents of Donbas, psychologists say one word: 'trauma'. It is connected to the difficulties of military conflict, losses, survived horror and moving to another place. Those who survived the war, to rehabilitate and to become the part of peaceful society became a challenge. The sound of thunder reminds about shelling and not for warm days with family picnics. How to help a person in such circumstances? 

The availability of a laptop, smartphone and accessible Internet is no surprise to anyone. New technologies are developing very fast, and even a child can learn programming. But does every young person have the opportunity to buy their laptops and even get an IT education? This is especially true for youth from the risk category – the graduates of boarding schools, orphans and children from crisis families. 

Vlad is 32. He has visual and hearing impairments, scoliosis, stuttering and the 2d group of disability (according to the Ukrainian system). Vlad has graduated from the 9th grade of a boarding school. It has been 10 years already and since then he did not study and could not get a job. In 2017, he became a student at the “TAK” art workshop. Vlad is the most diligent student in the workshop. He learned to sew and to make felt toys. He is always ready to undertake any kind of work and even to move mountains. Recently at one of the Kurazh Bazar Events, he got his first salary for selling artworks from the workshop. After that, he fixed the tap at home and bought his mom a purse as a present. It was such a touching moment, that his mom could not hold back her tears. 

Every small step to your dream is a really big step! Avangard-folk bandura bend from Yampil Youth Music School dreams to grow and evolve, to conquer the whole World by their music and shows what the beautiful things there are Ukrainian song and Ukrainian bandura. The band makes a lot of steps for their dream by competitions and concerts in Ukraine and abroad, by victories on all levels. And now they dream about new banduras because the old one is small for them physically and musically. 

Until recently, blind children could be educated exclusively in the conditions of special schools, which in Ukraine there are only 4 (Lviv, Kiev, Odessa, Kharkov). In 2011, the Lviv Regional Fund of Social Protection and Recovery of the Blind – USI organized inclusive education for blind children outside a special boarding school. 

An innovative project from the Ukrainian Philanthropic Marketplace, LINGVA SKILLS and the Ukrainian Institute of the Future, which will allow launching an effective mechanism for free learning of the Ukrainian language for everyone who wants to improve the level of knowledge of the Ukrainian language, primarily for: government officials, teachers, Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine, including immigrants and those who are in the occupied territories. 

Once there were 38 parrots, 39 = 2 (although it turned out 3), and now 40 = happiness. Forty is happiness :) I thought about what to dedicate this collection to and understood that it was equality and happiness. This is a unique space. Inclusiveness. I want people with disabilities to have work, their interests and their lives over time. The same. As we have with you. I write and cry, this is something between happiness, that I can do everything myself and pain, that someone needs much more effort. The whole universe of faith and support. The workshop is needed so that they draw, make, sew, communicate and study.

UPD: It was not possible to raise funds for this project by September 1, the OD had to ask the supplier of school supplies to borrow, so that they could pass on to the children for the holiday of knowledge. The assistance operator requests that you support this project and help raise funds to pay for all costs. More information on the project blog and the Documentation section.

Did you prepare everything for your child to go to school in advance or have not made it yet in the daily hassle? One way or another, you know how much you need - new clothes with shoes (do not forget about classes in physical education!), practical backpack, stationery, and also ribbons-bows, because a girl is a girl and she wants them. It is especially difficult for the mothers of our wards who have been struggling with serious illness since their children birth. All money is spent on the treatment, these costs are constant and do not leave any opportunity for savings. But you want your child to have everything necessary for school, to look good, be equal with other children! Will you help our special moms with their school issues? 

Almost every day in Ukraine, 1 child with Down syndrome is born. Almost 100 children with Down syndrome visit the Early Development Center of the All-Ukrainian charity organization Down Syndrome every month. For 15 years of existence, the foundation remains the only one in Ukraine who works with such children on such a large scale, systemically and professionally. During the activities of the Center, it was possible to support more than 1 000 families from all over Ukraine, to preserve joy and peace in them, to give hope for a new future for their children. 

Life of the blind, what does it look like? Our beneficiaries know and their parents and teachers are trying to understand and help these kids adapt to the world of sight. Mothers, on their own forces, have created a public organization Disabled with vision impairments from childhood and due to general illness Touch 'and in every possible way develop their special kids. The development of blind children, teaching of music, playing musical instruments has enormous meaning, and for some of them – is a top priority in life.