Until September 1, the Department of Education of the Lviv City Council initiated a charity campaign to collect funds for the rehabilitation of children who suffered war injuries. This year, Lviv schoolchildren and their parents are urged not to buy flowers for the holiday, but instead to join the collection for equipment for the UNBROKEN KIDS children’s rehabilitation center.
UNBROKEN KIDS is part of the system of the National Rehabilitation Center NEZLAMNI (UNBROKEN) and operates on the basis of St. Nicholas Hospital, where over 60,000 children from all over Ukraine have been helped over the past year alone.
As they say in St. Nicholas Hospital, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, St. Nicholas Hospital has become a refuge for seriously injured children. 350 young Ukrainians who suffered from Russian aggression were treated and rehabilitated here. As long as the war continues and the rocket attacks on the home front continue, the number of children with mine and explosive injuries will only increase. All of them require a long recovery and constant work with physical therapists. And some of them, such as patients with amputations and severe burns, will need treatment and rehabilitation throughout their childhood. That is why Ukraine needs a specialized children’s rehabilitation center, which both now and in the post-war years will help children who have suffered serious injuries. That is why UNBROKEN KIDS is being created in Lviv.
“The need to open a full-fledged rehabilitation department has arisen acutely since the beginning of the war, when various children with injuries and burns began to be brought to us. We have the opportunity to provide a full range of medical services in terms of conservative therapy and surgery, but afterwards almost all of these children need long-term rehabilitation so that they can live a full life. Therefore, we opened this collection in order to equip the department and give our patients of all ages the opportunity to receive a full range of rehabilitation care at home – in Ukraine,” says Zoryana Ivanyuk, medical director of St. Mykola’s Children’s Hospital.
You can contribute to the development of children’s rehabilitation at the following link: https://dobro.ua/project/nezlamni/ The fund-raising project is called “The best rehabilitation for UNBREAKABLE children”.
Contacts of the UNBROKEN Charitable Foundation: Oleksandr Kobzarev, executive director of Nezlamni Foundation, oleksandr.kobzarev@unbroken.org.ua.