“Even in the chaos of war, effective mental health input can be rapidly and cheaply provided and should be encouraged.”Almost 7,000 children in Ukraine have been helped to cope with the trauma of war through our TRT programme, according to a new report in the Journal...
Ukraine
Our latest annual report
"We are particularly proud of our work to help traumatised Ukrainian children, which was launched within one month of the Russian invasion in 2022." The war in Ukraine was a major focus for our activities in the year described in our Annual Report 2022, which has just...
Race for Children and War UK
Jenny Luckock and her friends Mariana Birchall, Lena Have, Ally Gabriele, Katie Routledge are training with a purpose – to raise £20,000 for Children and War UK.
Help for Ukrainian children in Estonia
Children and War UK is working with partner organisations in Estonia, to ensure that children from Ukraine get the support they need.
Kateryna Yavna: Training Ukrainians in TRT
When Ukrainian psychologist Kateryna Yavna found herself stuck in the UK because of Covid travel restrictions, she had no way of knowing that things would get worse. In normal life, she divided her time between London, UK, and Lviv in Ukraine. Then in February 2022,...
Music for Ukraine’s children
A concert for Children and War UK in June 2022 raised over £8,500. Every seat in the house was taken, and many more watched via the live link. Our thanks to the marvellous musicians who made the concert so memorable: sopranos Emma Kirkby and Angela Hicks, Sam Brown...
Ukraine – update
Children and War UK’s cascade approach to training is designed to reach large groups of children at risk of long-term psychological trauma. Between February and June 2022, we helped more than 1000 Ukrainian children – but the number of children who need help grows every day.