“The grinding conflict in eastern Ukraine is increasingly affecting the mental health of boys and girls, causing nightmares, social isolation and panic attacks” the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
World Cares Centers deployment team returns to Ukraine to conduct Medical Clinics and Resiliency Workshops with families and children in the resettlement villages. Our Ukraine program coordinator is working diligently on the ground. Partnering with Barnova27 our team will treat refugees in the the resettlement villages they have built. With your help, we will reach our goal of providing mobile medical treatment to 500 refugees this trip. While our team conducts Resiliency Workshops with families and children, we will conduct train the trainer sessions with local Ukraine Universities so that the Resiliency Program can expand through local NGO’s.
We are proud to be continue our partnership with Baranova27 and our local partners and give thanks to DRI Foundation for generously sponsoring a portion of the deployment. Your help is needed to raise additional funds to meet our goals.
“The war in Ukraine has upended the lives of countless citizens in a startlingly short amount of time,” said Al Berman, DRI Foundation President. “As a force for resilience around the world, the DRI Foundation is honored to support World Cares Center in helping the refugees created from this conflict, particularly the children, ”
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Our approach is to care for the body and mind, helping internally displaced refugees heal emotionally and physically, Lisa Orloff, Founder and President, World Cares Center.
World Cares Center conducts desperately needed healing art workshops with children and families in resettlement villages in L’viv Ukraine in concert with its mobile medical clinics. Lisa Orloff, President of World Cares Center is the editor of the healing journal for children and guide for parents, created with a team of Art Therapists and Mental Health Professional. The guide is published in Ukraine and English and printed in Ukraine to support the local economy. You can view both guide and journal below.
Train the trainer sessions with the medical and mental health students we have connected with during our initial deployment are at the heart of our mission to leave behind knowledge and resources that empower the community to lead their own recovery. Funds are needed to conduct the train the trainer sessions in concert with the provision of medical clinics, provide a stipend to the students for travel and food and support our local team leader. It is our goal to conduct regular Train the Trainer sessions, provide supplies and support the teams locally.
