SupportGanna Mayboroda:
“The eleventh year of Russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine.
The 11th year of pain and horror, the 767th day since the beginning of Russia’s large-scale offensive against Ukraine.
Russia’s main task is to destroy Ukraine, Ukrainians, and our future.
The children we taught first aid to in schools from 2014 to 2021 are now fighting the enemy with weapons in their hands, repelling aggression, and fighting for their children’s future.
As a mother and a grandmother, I am highly concerned about this—our children are already at war, and their children have already suffered and are suffering. My goal is to defeat the enemy and not to leave the war to our grandchildren and great-grandchildren. For the 11th year in a row, I have been doing a lot of useful things to support our army, the victims, and the country.
The children of Ukraine have experienced almost 800 days of horror, violence, trauma, loss, destruction, and displacement since February 2022.
For millions of children, Russia has stolen birthday celebrations, family holidays, school memories, and time with friends and family. Children have lost parents, siblings, homes, schools, and playgrounds.
528 children were killed, 1230 children were wounded, and some children need prosthetics. More than two million Ukrainian children have fled abroad to escape the war.
Anxiety, enemy shelling, and bomb shelter training have become a terrifying reality for the children who stayed in Ukraine.
The children of Ukraine grew up in a flash and received tremendous trauma that they will live with for the rest of their lives. It is terrible.
But they dream of a peaceful, happy future, they dream of returning home, they dream of hugging their loved ones.
They dream.
With this project, we want to unite the children of Ukraine who stayed in Ukraine and left the country, to collect their thoughts and stories about “what has changed in their lives in two years,” to collect drawings and tell the world about the reality and pain that the war has brought to the lives of little Ukrainians and about their dreams for themselves and Ukraine.
The world needs to feel and understand all the horrors that children’s eyes have seen and make extra efforts every day to help Ukraine. Because the next ones will be adults and children of other countries.”
