"The Road to Life" continues: new stop - Udaici TRC

“The Road to Life” is an annual project of the Kids to Kids charity foundation, where we visit children who study and live in special educational and rehabilitation institutions. We come to support them, give them care, necessary things – and, most importantly, to remind them that they are not alone.

This May, our team visited the Udaici TRC in Chernihiv Oblast. It was not the first time we had met with the children from the institution, so the children were looking forward to the visit.

The trip was attended by Natalia Kiseleva, Director of the Foundation, and long-time friends of the Foundation Lidia Kirichenko and Karina Agapova. They collected gifts for all the children – with love and knowledge of what pleases the kids the most.
New volunteers joined the team – Leshchenko & Partners, Irina Mazur, Unveil.club.ua, Yaroslava.
Thanks to our joint efforts, we managed to purchase everything we needed from the list provided by the administration: medicines, food, sweets, fruits, as well as summer hats and flip-flops for each child – before the start of the holidays.
A special moment was the visit to the centre’s graduates. We congratulated them on the end of the school year and presented them with gifts – suitcases and backpacks filled with essentials. These packages are not just things, but a symbol of care, attention and a confident step into the future, collected by our benefactors with warmth and parental love. And the graduating girls also received special gifts – summer sundresses from the Ukrainian women’s clothing brand Maricheva, owned by Alyona Maricheva, who has been supporting our foundation for several years and generously congratulating the girls on this important event. We are grateful to Ruslana Verlos for her many years of volunteering and partnership! This time, she sewed soft blankets for the graduates with her own hands – with warmth in every stitch.

We sincerely thank all the partners of this trip for their trust, support and contribution, thanks to which each graduate felt that a caring world awaits them outside the walls of the institution.

During the visit, we talked a lot with the children, educators and management of the institution. There were many sincere words, hugs and questions: “When will you come again?” And it is at times like this that we realise how important it is to be there for them.

We are happy to be able to help and give joy to children who are in special institutions for various reasons. And this is only possible thanks to you, our good friends and benefactors.

After the meeting, the director of the foundation, together with the volunteers and management, went through the centre’s buildings, inspected the living conditions of the children and made a list of urgent needs to help purchase everything they needed in the near future. This is how the Kids to Kids Foundation works – help on demand, exactly where it is really needed.

We are sincerely grateful to the Maricheva brand and personally to Alyona Maricheva for their annual support and care for the graduate girls. Thanks to such partners, every trip becomes even warmer and more special.

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Olena Momot,
co-founder of the Kids to Kids Foundation