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Inclusive first aid training in Chernivtsi, where participants, including wheelchair users, learned practical life-saving skills.

Inclusive first aid training in Chernivtsi, where participants, including wheelchair users, learned practical life-saving skills.

Group photo of nine participants at the Ukraine Recovery Conference 2025 in Rome, standing in front of the conference backdrop. Among them are women and men, including one woman using a wheelchair, smiling together as part of the delegation on disability-inclusive recovery.

EDF delegation participating in the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome, 2026

Mariia, a girl with autism spectrum, adapted to a new life after displacement because of the project’s support. 

NAPD team visit to Poltava region: cooperation to ensure the rights of people with disabilities and access to quality service.

Denis, a veteran with disability during rehabilitation organised by NAPD.

22-year-old Maryna, attending the day care center run by the Dream Workshop.

Heroes of the photo exhibition “Time to Step into the Light” in Ivano-Frankivsk

Accessibility audit in the Storozhynets

Fifteen-year-old Vladislav from Cherkasy, a beneficiary of the League of the Strong project activities.

Yuliya, Nastia and Iryna sit on a couch reading a book
Yuliya, Nastia and Iryna read the Ukrainian alphabet together
Iryna, Andrii and Tetiana together in an office, smiling
Iryna, Andrii and Tetiana ar Schneider Electric

Quotes from during the full scale invasion

  • 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.

    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.
    Sumy, Ukraine - 7th March, 2022