Protect Ukraine works in partnership with the Olena Zelenska Foundation, established by Ukraine’s First Lady.

The foundation invites international partners to help safeguard children’s access to education and care. Its work includes renovating and equipping shelters, modernising school kitchens and canteens, and improving energy independence in schools and kindergartens.

Attacks on schools force families to live in fear and threaten children’s education and development.

For Ukraine’s future, children must be able to attend school safely and that requires a proper shelter.

That is why Protect Ukraine is helping renovate school shelters in two frontline cities.

Existing basements are being transformed into safe spaces with classrooms and sleeping areas, allowing children to continue learning even when air-raid sirens sound.

‘The only childhood and youth they will ever have, their formative years, are happening here and now, shaping the course of their entire lives. It is crucial that these years are filled with care, opportunities and resources.’

— Olena Zelenska Founder of the Olena Zelenska Foundation