Spaces, mobile teams, support: daily help for families in Kharkiv Region
Despite the daily challenges of war, a dedicated team of professionals in Kharkiv region continues to deliver essential social services to children and families. This work is part of the UNICEF Ukraine project “Strengthening community capacity to provide essential protection and resilience services in Kharkiv, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions,” implemented by the NGO “Responsible Citizens.”
The region hosts:
11 child-friendly spaces — safe environments where children and parents play, learn, and recover.
7 mobile psychosocial support teams — reaching families in remote areas with limited access to services.
“We provide systematic support — consultations, individual assistance, and psychosocial help for families, even during emergencies like shelling or air raid alerts. Psychologists, speech therapists, and art therapists work in the spaces. Our staff constantly undergo training to ensure that services are high-quality, safe, and child-focused,” – says Olena Khvatynets, regional project coordinator in Kharkiv.
Responsible Citizens NGO works systematically to ensure that mine risk education is accessible to everyone — especially to children and families living in frontline areas. We firmly believe: knowledge saves lives. And although awareness is growing, the risks remain high. That’s why we go beyond Mine Risk Awareness Week — our activities take place year-round.
The educational component of the joint project with Mercy Corps, funded by the UK government, has reached its final stage. This is an important step for the develop...
The NGO “Responsible Citizens,” in partnership with Mercy Corps and with funding from the UK government, invites educators and teachers to participate i...
Kehychivka is a small village in the Kharkiv region with nearly 5,000 residents. It is located approximately 2 hours by car from both Kharkiv and Poltava. This is w...
Regional coordinator Oksana Ivatina completed training under the certified program Creating a Safe Environment for Children: Safety Policy in Organizations, organized by the Ukrainian Child Rights Network and the Center for Human Dignity at the Ukrainian Catholic University.
The staff of the NGO “Responsible Citizens” have completed a four-day intensive HEAT (Hostile Environment Awareness Training) course, designed to prepar...
In November, thanks to the collaboration between Nova Poshta Humanitarian and the NGO “Responsible Citizens,” 25 boxes of hygiene kits, weighing a total...
Thanks to the joint efforts of Nova Poshta Humanitarian and the NGO “Responsible Citizens,” more than 140 kg of humanitarian aid has been delivered to t...
April 4 — International day for mine awareness and assistance in mine action
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“We appreciate that the financial assistance came just 10 days after the application,” says Yulia Limar, a resident of Kehychivka in the Kharkiv region.
Expanding competencies for effective child protection
Employees of the NGO “Responsible Citizens” completed a HEAT training course—a program on survival and response in high-risk areas
325 kg of Aid for IDP women in Zaporizhzhia
We sent 140 kg of humanitarian aid to the Kharkiv Region