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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.

"Your efforts for the safety of children deserve the utmost respect," — these words of support are most often heard by families who seek help from our specialists.

“We needed this psychological support because there were issues we didn’t know how to handle or resolve on our own,” Yulia admits. UNICEF’s support became a lifeline for the family during their toughest moments.

10-year-old Daria lives with her mother, Hanna, in the village of Havrylivka, Kharkiv region. In this remote settlement of the Barvinkivska community, home to fewer than two thousand people, a mobile team from UNICEF and the NGO "Responsible Citizens" regularly visits. The team includes a social worker, a psychologist, and an art therapist.

The project is implemented by the NGO Responsible Citizens in partnership with JERU – Joint Emergency Response in Ukraine (Welthungerhilfe and Concern Worldwide) with financial support from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

For “Responsible Citizens”, participation in such events is an opportunity to align approaches with partners and better understand how to strengthen support for people who need it.

Rapid response to the consequences of shelling is one of the key areas of work of the project implemented by the NGO “Responsible Citizens” in partnership with Mercy Corps Ukraine with funding from the Government of the United Kingdom.

To help people find their place in these new conditions, the LIVES 3.0 project, implemented by "Responsible Citizens" in partnership with Mercy Corps and supported by the UK government, organized a series of training sessions.