Displaced Ukrainian children find refuge in SOS Children’s Villages across Europe
Across Europe, SOS Children’s Villages are scaling up services to provide safe shelter, child friendly spaces, mental health and psychosocial support, cash assistance, transportation support, and family reunification services to displaced Ukrainian children and families. Additionally, we are facilitating interim, alternative care for unaccompanied children who are separated from their parents.
Through our network of partners, in cooperation with the Ukrainian Commissioner for Children’s Rights, we are also working to find safety for the 100,000 Ukrainian children who remain isolated in state residential institutions (e.g., orphanages). They face a high risk of neglect, violence, and trafficking as staffing and resources are minimal.
In all we do, safeguarding is crucial, especially where children and caregivers have been traumatized by displacement and war.
SOS Children’s Villages has been working in Ukraine since 2003, supporting children and families in the Kyiv region and providing humanitarian assistance in response to the 2014 conflict. We will continue our work in Ukraine as long as it takes—to save lives, reduce suffering, reunify and strengthen families, and maintain dignity among crisis-affected Ukrainians.
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Canadians wishing to support SOS Children's Villages emergency response programs are encouraged to Donate to SOS MAYDAY.