Strengthening Support for Family-Based Care

Responsible Citizens NGO has joined the Civil Society Collaboration Platform for the Best Interests of the Child — a space for cooperation between international, national and local organizations established to implement the Strategy to Ensure Every Child’s Right to Grow Up in a Family Environment in Ukraine (2024–2028).

This is a day dedicated to people who help children find their voice — in the most literal sense. Our speech therapists do more than teach children how to articulate sounds. They help them gain confidence, build communication skills, and freely express their thoughts and emotions.

Participants gathered to discuss current social challenges, strengthen cooperation, and define ways to effectively support women in crisis conditions.

From our first volunteer initiatives in Donetsk, we have grown into one of the largest humanitarian organisations operating in eastern Ukraine. Today, the Responsible Citizens NGO team includes more than 300 professionals working across Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Sumy oblasts.

In these photos, you can see Alona, an art therapist from our team, who works in the northern part of Donetsk region. As part of a mobile brigade, she visits famili...

After months of stress and distance learning, Nazar* became withdrawn — and his mother didn't know how to help him. The answer was found in Kharkiv Oblast, where NGO Responsible Citizens together with Save the Children created a space where children learn to be children again.

Responsible Citizens is launching a new project together with the Polish Humanitarian Action (PAH) and with the support of the United States Government in four regions where protection needs remain critical.

Regional coordinator Oksana Ivatina completed training under the "Advocacy for the Right of the Child to Family Environment and Better Care" program, organized by Save the Children.