“I was born during a war and lived to see another one”

In 2025, communities in Donetsk Region continued to live and work under conditions of constant danger and high psychological pressure. In this reality, Child-Friendly Spaces and mobile psychosocial support teams became important hubs of stability, helping children and adults cope with stress, trauma, and uncertainty.

The NGO “Responsible Citizens” supports internally displaced persons in finding themselves, acquiring new skills, and adapting to life in new circumstances

The year 2025 became a year of systematic team development for the NGO “Responsible Citizens.” We purposefully strengthened our expertise by building a comprehensive learning culture aligned with the challenges of humanitarian work in a context of war. T

Within the framework of the project, the NGO “Responsible Citizens” has launched cooperation with Acted, an international humanitarian organization that joined the initiative to strengthen support for households most affected by the war. The project is implemented with financial support from the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund (UHF).

Since the beginning of autumn, our mobile teams of psychologists and facilitators have been visiting communities where people live under constant stress caused by the war and often have no access to professional support. This became possible thanks to the project implemented by the NGO “Responsible Citizens” in partnership with JERU – Joint Emergency Response in Ukraine, a joint initiative of Welthungerhilfe and Concern Worldwide — with financial support from the German Federal Foreign Office.

“Thanks to the partnership of the NGO “Responsible Citizens” with World Vision International and with funding from Aktion Deutschland Hilft (ADH),...

Iryna from Kryvyi Rih has been connected to art her entire life. Teaching painting and helping people through creativity is her true calling. For over 30 years, she has been teaching others to see the world through colors, lines, and images. Today, she works at a music school in her hometown, but more and more often, she feels the need to grow, move forward, and discover new opportunities.

The teams of the NGO Responsible Citizens work in areas where the social burden increases every day. This is where Child-Friendly Spaces and mobile psychosocial support teams operate most actively. In the first half of 2025, nearly 10,000 children and their families received professional support.