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Poignant Play Webinar during Air-raids in Ukraine
One of the characteristics of play is its resilience. Play is important to children whatever their circumstances. It is especially important during crises when being able to play can offer children some security and normality. This message offered a spark of hope last Thursday morning, during an ICDI’s Webinar The Power of Play and its Impact…
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Workers from the first Play Hub in Ukraine participate in a learning exchange in Slovakia
The Play Hub staff and Local Action Team (LAT) members from the first Play Hub in Kyiv, Ukraine, participated in a 3-day learning exchange in Slovakia visiting Wide Open School-Skola Dokoran Play and Learning Hubs. This event, which took place in September 2023, marked a significant milestone for the newly launched Play Hub in Kyiv,…
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Launch of First Play Hub in Ukraine Supports Internally Displaced Children and Families
ICDI, in collaboration with LHSI, is thrilled to announce the upcoming opening of Ukraine’s first Play Hub in Kyiv in July 2023. This groundbreaking initiative is supporting some of many internally displaced families with young children in the country who have had to leave their homes because of the war. While the project’s scale is…
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Joint Statement on the Forcible Transfer, Deportation, and Adoption of Children from Ukraine by Russia
The forcible transfer, deportation and adoption of children from Ukraine, resulting in permanently separating children from their families, communities and culture, is a clear violation of their human rights and of international humanitarian law, and poses a substantial threat to their safety and well-being as well as to their sense of identity and belonging. ICDI condemns these practices and,…
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Training for law enforcement in Ukraine: online sexual violence
Yesterday, ICDI, in cooperation with long-standing partner Labour and Health Social Initiatives (LHSI), provided an online training about online sexual violence. The training was part of the LHSI project ‘Empowering Law Enforcement in Overcoming online Violence against Children’, which focuses on preventing online sexual violence of Ukrainian youth. The project is funded by the EU.…
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Protect Ukrainian children without family care
100,000 children without parental support, who live in orphanages in Ukraine, are facing unprecedented danger during the war in Ukraine. Their lives are at risk. Alongside 13 NGO’s (and counting), ICDI is calling on the international community to protect these children, of which the majority still has living family. Their safety and wellbeing must be paramount in…
