Europe

Ukraine

They came for education, and had to run for their lives

April 11 2022 - Sami, Eron and Eseohe left Nigeria to study at Kharkiv University in Ukraine. Their academic prospects and their very lives were ruthlessly endangered when the Russian Federation launched a war on Ukraine.

Siblings

Laws to keep siblings together in care debated across Europe

April 7 2022 - One year after Belgium passed a law giving siblings the right not to be separated in alternative care, a number of countries are following its lead.

Romania

When reality sets in

March 28 2022 - Viktoria and three of her close friends, all with two children each, fled the war in Ukraine and found shelter in SOS Children’s Village Bucharest. They speak about their new daily routines and the challenges they are facing away from home.

Ukraine

‘We will stay however long it takes’

March 23 2022 - On 18 March 2022, Ingrid Maria Johansen, CEO of SOS Children’s Villages International, met with staff of SOS Children’s Villages Poland and Ukraine, and later with evacuated children and caregivers from Ukraine .

Ukraine

Safe, but feeling worse

March 10 2022 - Alina Bobko is a social worker who worked with young people from SOS Children's Villages Ukraine in the Kyiv region. On the tenth day of the war, Alina was forced to flee her country. Although now safe, Alina, like many Ukrainian refugees, struggles with survivor’s guilt.

Ukraine

The children are very scared

March 4 2022 - Oksana has been a psychologist at SOS Children’s Village Brovary for many years. Since 16-February-2022, Oksana has been working directly with the foster families who remained in the SOS Children’s Village Brovary, and remotely with the foster families who relocated to Truskavets, western Ukraine.