LATEST UPDATES:
One of our most vital programs—still going strong, still urgently needed, and still making a difference for thousands of children living near the front lines and impacted by the war—is Recovery Camps. Thanks to your support, UCAP has helped fund 58 camps over the past 22 months, providing care and resources to more than 4,650 children and their mothers.
In collaboration with our colleagues in Ukraine, we are preparing to publish findings about the children attending these 6-day camps. Alarmingly, over one-third of these children are experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Thankfully, the professional team in Lviv is ensuring these children have access to healing activities during the camps and long-term psychological support to aid their recovery.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
A highly successful, professionally, and humanely run Ukrainian charity, Sincere Heart has been organizing special one-day and five-day programs for traumatized children who have been displaced from eastern and southern parts of Ukraine under siege to Lviv. Their success rates are excellent, and all programs are supervised by trauma-focused psychologists and staffed by trained specialists and volunteers.
The main goal of Recovery Camps is the psycho-emotional rehabilitation of children and mothers of Ukraine who suffered from the war. The program is formed and conducted by psychologists, animators, coaches, artists, trainers of sports schools, specialists in art therapy, artists, and other interesting personalities. This approach is almost the only one that allows not only to provide psychological first aid unobtrusively but also to carry out systematic work with mothers and children on psychological support.
