Ivett’s Dedication to Helping Ukrainian Children in Hungary Through Kek Vonal, a Child Helpline in Hungary
The work of Kek Vonal, the child helpline in Hungary, is significantly impacting the lives of Ukrainian children in Hungary who are struggling to cope with the effects of war. Kek Vonal is one of the child helplines that participate in the Ukraine Crisis Response Project of Child Helpline International, which is funded by UNICEF […]
Inspiring Stories of Dedicated Counsellors Helping Children and young people in Telefonul Copilului 116 111 Moldova
Telefonul Copilului 116 111 Moldova – run by the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection – is a free child helpline that aims to protect children from any kind of abuse of their rights by providing psychological counselling, information about children’s rights, child protection consulting, guidance, and referrals to the institutions empowered to provide the necessary assistance. […]
Ukraine Crisis Response: 3-day Workshop for Ukrainian Participants
Between 3-5 April, a group of 32 participants from across Ukraine travelled to Krákow in Poland, to share their experiences in the final of our series of workshops on the Ukraine Crisis Response. Since the start of the full scale invasion, the organisations that these participants represented have been working tirelessly, through shelling, bombing, electricity […]
Ukraine Crisis Response: 3-day Workshop in Czechia
In the last week of March, a group of 32 participants and 9 trainers came together in the beautiful city of Prague, Czechia, to learn about some of the most pressing issues emerging from the war in Ukraine. The event was organized in collaboration with our partners from UNICEF ECARO and UNICEF Czech Republic and […]
Ukraine Crisis Response: 3-day Workshop in Moldova
Our fifth in-country workshop for child helplines and frontline workers supporting the children and young people who have been displaced from Ukraine took place in Chișinău, Moldova, last week. According to UNHCR: “Moldova has received 674,057 Ukrainian refugees and 76,752 third-country nationals since late February 2022. Of them, 102,283 have chosen to stay in the […]
Ukraine Crisis Response: 3-day Workshop in Hungary
As part of Child Helpline International’s Ukraine Crisis Response project, from 13 to 15 March we conducted a 3-day workshop in Budapest. This training, the fourth in a seven-part series of in-country sessions conducted in partnership with UNICEF ECARO, focused on increasing child helpline counsellors and front-line worker’s knowledge of mental health and psychosocial support issues […]
Ukraine Crisis Response: 3-day Workshop in Bulgaria
I recently had the opportunity to travel to Sofia, where we hosted another three-day workshop focusing on responding to Children and Young People Affected by the War in Ukraine. This event, which took place between 27 February and 1 March, was organized in collaboration with our partners from UNICEF ECARO and UNICEF Bulgaria and was […]
These Are The Children…
Today is exactly one year since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces. It is exactly one year that Ukrainian children have been living under conditions of full-scale war: conditions of fear, of pain, of endless grief and tears. As at 20 February 2023, 461 Ukrainian children have been killed as the […]
Ukraine Crisis Response: 3-day Workshop in Slovakia
Last week (13-15 February 2023), I took part in a three-day workshop in Bratislava, Slovakia, which we hosted together with UNICEF Slovakia, and which focussed on child helplines and frontline workers supporting children and young people displaced from Ukraine. This was the second in an ongoing series of in-country trainings we have organised as part […]
Ukraine Crisis Response: 3-day Workshop in Poland
Last week I travelled to Warsaw where, together with our partners from UNICEF ECARO and the UNICEF Emergency Response Office in Poland, we held a three-day workshop between 8-10 February for child helplines and frontline workers responding to children and young people affected by the war in Ukraine. We were joined by 28 participants, who […]