Stories of Our Children

Olena never imagined her daughter would be born under fire. There were no doctors. No electricity. No pain relief....

“I had long forgotten what a real home felt like. Now I know — it’s not just a word....

Next to him—his 13-year-old son Yevhenii, a boy with a disability, and his mother Raisa, an elderly woman with...

Can you imagine this nightmare? You’re a 14-year-old girl with a congenital heart defect. Armed soldiers in balaclavas storm...

Tetyana from Kramatorsk gently hugs her sons, Davyd and Makar, and smiles: at the Hope and Healing Center in...

“I supported Ukraine. They wanted to beat me,” says Oleh, recalling the Russian school where he was bullied every...

“Everyone who was 17 was taken to the military enlistment office. I was handed a draft notice and told...

“There was an explosion near our neighbors. I knew we had to get out,” recalls Danylo, who was recently...

“I had a neighbor upstairs… He supported Russia. He banged on my door, shouted… I was terrified,” says Mrs....

Imagine the horror: you’re 8 years old, locked in a dark, freezing basement with your mother by Russian soldiers....