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Our Creative Hub for children’s education and development has run for three months, serving children and young people from Lviv and those who left their homes in the war. 22 young people completed our IT Training course. The reactions from mothers of children from different corners of Ukraine are so heart-warming, don’t miss reading them!

Over the summer 81 young people from East and West Ukraine joined our two STEP Life Skills Camps: a two-day camp focused on building a career, and at a three-day camp they took on the challenge of scaling Hoverla, the highest peak in the Carpathian Mountains. Both camps strengthened young people’s skills to succeed in life. There was an enthusiastic response!

Angela's sister has started her own manicure business, and the Tyman family are safe in Germany. Their father says “We are incredibly grateful to Care in Action sponsors for supporting our family in the toughest months of our life. They gave us hope where we didn’t see even a ray of light.” We can now sponsor new children in Ukraine and help them towards independence.

Our Creative Hub, IT Training and services show that we can protect children’s education, as children are Ukraine’s future. 30 young people have enrolled in our IT Training held in partnerships with Intellias. At our Hub, we are helping children to deal with stress from the war now to make it easier for them to focus during lessons when school reopens.

Local organisations like Care in Action are leading Ukraine's aid effort, and essential to helping the 7 million displaced people within Ukraine. So every one of the 198 people cared for in our shelters, every mother we help to find a job, every child we help to enrol in a new school in the relative safety of Lviv is significant. 

In July we are helping refugees move out of school halls and into our hostels so classrooms can reopen, and Director Jasmine Lehnis-Leitao met some of them in her visit to Lviv. By asking donors to fund another 85 people in hostels, we can meet the essential need for children in Lviv to benefit from teaching, social interaction and routine in school.

We are happy to report that our Creative Hub, opened on June 1st, is serving children and parents who have lost their homes in the war. The child-friendly spaces and range of activities give children who are living in hostels and halls a chance to play, enjoy learning and adjust to life in a new city. These are important steps in rebuilding lives, and parents are making new friends and looking for work.

One of our hostels is home to 40 people who fled Russian aggression: here families have a safe place to stay in Lviv, along with care and counselling from Care in Action, so they can plan their next steps. We would like to thank Razom for Ukraine for financing 40 places at this hostel since May 2022. In total they have funded 4,360 beds for a night!

Some refugees in our hostel barely escaped the missile strike in Kramatorsk. Many went through heart-breaking experiences to get to safety. Thanks to our donors' generosity, we can provide housing for 125 children and their families who, leaving their entire lives behind, fled their hometowns and villages to find shelter and security.