“No longer disabled”: how flexible assistance changed a child’s life

Over the next 3.5 months, the team from the NGO Responsible Citizens will work with students with special educational needs and disabilities, as well as with the specialists who support them.

Participation in the training marked an important stage of professional growth for the team and strengthened the organization’s expertise in sustainable organizational development.

Attention! The mini-grants program is only for residents of the Zolochivska, Shevchenkivska, Vilkhuvatska, and Velykoburlutska communities.

The year 2022 became a year of trials for a family from Sloviansk. The decision to move to the Odesa region to protect their children from danger was not an easy one, but it was necessary. Later, when it became relatively safe in their hometown, the family returned home, despite all the challenges of living in a frontline region.

The NGO Responsible Citizens joined a meeting of the Council on Internally Displaced Persons under the Cherkasy Regional Military Administration. The meeting was attended by the organization’s Project Manager, Oksana Ivatina.

Free sessions with a psychologist, speech therapist, and art therapist, offered by the NGO “Responsible Citizens,” gave the family the support they desperately needed. These efforts helped the children adapt to their new circumstances, with little Bohdana making remarkable progress in her speech.

This assistance is part of the project “Local, Inclusive and Multi-Sectoral Emergency Assistance to Conflict-Affected Population in Ukraine” implemented by Responsible Citizens in partnership with Mercy Corps Ukraine and funded by the UK Government.

The project is implemented by NGO Responsible Citizens in partnership with JERU — Joint Emergency Response in Ukraine — a joint initiative of Welthungerhilfe and Concern Worldwide, with the financial support of the German Federal Foreign Office.