Stories from the ground in Ukraine
Learn more about our work through the voices of its protagonists.
Our work in testimonies
Young Ukrainians with disabilities fight for their rights – and the planet.
KyivPost: Life for Disabled Ukrainians Amid Russian War
Ukraine: They understand me like no one else: peer support for injured Ukrainian soldier – December 2023
Latvia: a talented young man with disabilities following the footsteps of his parents as professional sportsman – Latvia, testimony collected in October 2022, published in March 2023
“Responding to changing circumstances”: the Organisation of Muscular Dystrophy in the Slovak Republic – Slovakia, August 2022
Escaping the war as children with disabilities: Nastia’s story – Poland, July 2022
A pathway of support to find an accessible job in Latvia: Andrii’s story – Latvia, July 2022
Refugees helping refugees: Tetiana’s story – Latvia, April 2022
From Donetsk to Latvia – Evacuation to Rehabilitation – Latvia, April 2022
Families reunited across the border: Iryna’s story – Latvia, April 2022
Fleeing from Kharkiv to Riga: Vera’s story – Latvia, March 2022
Stories from Ukraine
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Most of all, our mothers are afraid that in this situation, during shelling or bombing, they will die before their children. And children who need help will live in pain and die a terrible death.
Therefore, we ask all people living on the planet to do everything to stop the war.
Vinnitsa, Ukraine - 4th March, 2022 -
Persons with disabilities from Dnipro and Dnepropetrovsk area actively take part in financial support for Ukraine. They help refugees, hospitals, take part in logistics and settlement of refugees from Kharkiv for further evacuation to the western cities of Ukraine.
Tamara is a widow and her son Jakob is a person with disability. They accept refugees in their house, give them food, provide them the place for sleeping at night, for the further moving into safe cities of Ukraine. Also they gave to the hospital a special compression mattress to prevent bedsores and a wheelchair. Shared hygiene products: adult diapers and underpads.
Dnipro, Ukraine - 4th March, 2022 -
Just within the first 7 days of war terrible killings of peaceful citizens were committed. I want to draw special attention to the vulnerable including children, persons with disabilities, seriously ill patients, and the elderly.Sumy, Ukraine - 7th March, 2022
In Sumy region, there are children with orphan and oncological diseases. The impossibility to timely deliver medicines and provide complex operations and procedures is threatening their lives.
We are grateful to all our partners and volunteer organizations from all over the world who are gathering humanitarian aid and sending it to Ukraine, but today there is no possibility to deliver it to the territory of Sumy region.