“The history of our organization begins with the neighbors’ boy Misha who moved to his grandmother residing in the capital from Gorlovka – a small town near Donetsk. Mikhail does not have parents or, better to say, has parent no more. His father has left to be at war in 2014 and before the new year his mother got a call informing that her husband was no longer among the living. While Misha stayed in Kyiv with her grandmother, his mother could not bear her loss and died.

So it happened that the boy remained living in Kyiv. Mikhail goes outside seldom. As Nataliya Mikhailovna, the boy’s grandmother, tells her grandson does not communicate with anybody and spends all the time in his room”.

This is the story of only one child who in his 11 years experienced all the horrors of what in the modern society there should not be place for – war. In reality the number of deprived Ukrainian children is much bigger. In a varying degree around 600 thousand children suffered because of the conflict in the East of Ukraine (according to the UNISEF report dated February 2016). It is not just bare statistics and not simply a tragedy of some abstract unknown to us families. These are real children with already crushed souls who feel like social outcasts. They live nearby and desperately need our sympathy and compassion.

Concern about the future of our children has suggested to us an idea of creation of a social and psychological improving complex of the European level. We needed the vast territory in a quiet, pollution-free region of Ukraine. It wasn’t easy to find such a place. But one and a half years of intensive searches later one of not indifferent people at another charitable exhibition has provided for free use (for a period of 15 years) a location of more than 5 hectares in the center of Ukraine. This beautiful and safe place surrounded by the lakes and the woods suits the best the purpose of rendering full assistance to children: emotional, psychological and physical.

Besides, we wanted to ensure a professional approach to realization of a range of projects focused on rendering the social and psychological assistance to children-migrants who suffered because of military operations. Therefore, in 2015 we have enlisted the support of specialists of the Institute of social psychology. At present a large number of volunteers from different fields cooperate with us: doctors, psychologists, managers, businessmen, engineers, architects, journalists and simply not indifferent people. All of them readily give real (not for show) help to make sure that the candle of hope of small Ukrainians who became hostages of such an awful situation doesn’t blow out.