Every day, Save Ukraine volunteers risk their lives driving into active combat zones — to rescue those who cannot flee on their own.

Thanks to Save Ukraine, more than 1,000 children have already been brought home. But thousands more are still waiting.

Mykyta is nine. When we first met, he clung tightly to his grandmother’s hand, avoided eye contact, and hesitated to take a toy — a bright red fire truck. For a long while, he just stood aside, watching quietly, as if trying to understand whether this place was truly safe.

At her first art therapy session, eight-year-old Lera sat quietly in the corner. When the therapist handed her a sheet of paper, she whispered: “I don’t know what to draw. Our house burned down.”

When 9-year-old Olenka arrived at our Hope and Healing Center, she was terrified. After spending a third of her life under occupation, every loud sound made her cover her head with her hands.

Thanks to Save Ukraine, more than 900 children have already been rescued from Russia and the temporarily occupied territories.

Now, families with young children have access to a place designed to help them grow, heal, and thrive from the very beginning.

We have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine — an important step that strengthens the joint efforts of the government and civil society in locating, protecting, and returning Ukrainian children abducted by Russia.

At 16, Yaryna should be preparing for her school graduation, thinking about university, and dreaming of a future in a free Ukraine. Instead, she spent her final school years under Russian occupation — in her half-destroyed hometown of Mariupol, where every day has been a fight to survive.