The completion of the charity campaign “Contribute to cheer up children”

Charitable organization Save Ukraine and PrivatBank have collected over 15 million hryvnias within the charity campaign “Contribute to cheer up children”. These funds went on purchasing “safety and development” backpacks. Benefactors bought them for those almost 2000 children, who lost their parents due to this war.

The charity campaign was completed and the results were summed up in Kyiv during the charity educational event which was held for those children who are cared for by the charitable organization Save Ukraine. During the event, PrivatBank specialists conducted a lesson of financial literacy for these children, and the volunteers from Save Ukraine shared with them some psychological practices on how to reduce the negative outcomes of traumas caused by this war.

The children present at the event were the first who got “safety and development” backpacks gifted within the charity campaign. Each “safety” backpack contained a tablet with educational training and programs. But for the tablets, in the backpacks there were blankets and some other useful things which can give a sense of support to those children from whom the war took away their dearest.

“The loss of parents is a really hard and traumatic experience for a child. We cannot change this experience but we can support, we can give hope for the future. And we want to do it by means of education since it is a powerful tool for growth and healing”, said Mykola Kuleba, the founder and the director of the charitable organization Save Ukraine.

“We thank everyone who joined the charity fundraising, and contributed their part in cheering up children, and thus, symbolically shared a small bit of light from their hearts with those who so unfairly suffered bitter losses during the war,” added Gerhard Boesch, Chairperson of PrivatBank Management Board. “Education  for children today also is the light that will illuminate the path into their future and is a necessary prerequisite for rebuilding up Ukraine”. 

It is really important that each child has a chance to pass the online training on how to reduce the negative outcomes of traumas caused by the war and to acquire the relevant life skills. Each child, depending on his/her age,  will also be able to have access to school curriculum or to financial literacy training.