Thousands of Ukrainian children traumatized by the war need rehabilitation today. Therefore, for the children to receive the best treatment and recovery in their native country, UAH 35 million is being collected in Lviv for the UNBROKEN KIDS Rehabilitation Center. It will be based at the St. Nicholas Children’s Hospital of the First Medical Union.

Over the past year, more than 60,000 children from all over Ukraine have received help there. One of them is Yana Stepanenko. Last April, 11-year-old Yana, her mother, and her brother were waiting for a train to Kramatorsk to escape the war. A Russian missile hit the station. The Stepanenko family was lucky to survive. Yana’s mother didindeed lose her leg, and Yana lost both. After many months of treatment in Lviv, prosthetics, and rehabilitation in the USA, the girl is now walking on prostheses and can live a normal life.

In August, the Stepanenko family returns home to Ukraine.

“I go to school, ride a bike, travel. I really want to learn how to run fast to play hide and seek or catch with my classmates. My family and I are returning to Ukraine, I really want to go home. Doctors say that until I am 18, I need to change my prostheses every year, sometimes three times a year. And constantly undergo rehabilitation,” says Yana.

In Lviv, we did everything to ensure that Yana and her mother would receive the best rehabilitation upon their return: we opened a prosthetics workshop and an adult rehabilitation building, and soon a rehabilitation department in a children’s hospital will be operating here. Doctors have learned to do the impossible. Rehabilitation of children after war injuries, including amputations, shrapnel wounds, mine explosive injuries, burns, and loss of upper and lower limb functions, rehabilitation of children with neurotrauma is lengthy and difficult.

In August, Yana returns to Ukraine and needs continued rehabilitation. And thousands of Ukrainian children are waiting for such help. That’s why UNBROKEN is starting a fundraising campaign for children`s rehabilitation equipment.

“We need to collect 35 million hryvnias for modern equipment because there are many children like Yana, who need our support. We have to create excellent children’s rehabilitation together. This is equipment, certain repairs, and, of course, prosthetics. Children need to change prostheses every year. We started with rehabilitation for adults, and we already have a high level of surgery, prosthetics, and rehabilitation. However, children’s rehabilitation is much more difficult – both physical and psychological, because it has its own characteristics. Therefore, I urge everyone to join to make a cool children’s rehabilitation together,” says Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovy.

The UNBROKEN KIDS children’s rehabilitation department will be established at St. Nicholas Hospital. This is a unique medical facility of the First Medical Union of Lviv, where children are treated and operated on from birth to adulthood. Over the past year, more than 60,000 children from all over Ukraine have received help here.

Therefore, to provide the best conditions for rehabilitation in Ukraine, a fundraiser for the best equipment in the world for Ukrainian children is being launched in Lviv. You can participate in fundraising on the dobro.ua platform: https://dobro.ua/project/nezlamni/

“How can a child not run? If an adult can somehow understand why this happened, then it is impossible to explain to a child why it happened to her, and why her friends can run and play, but she can’t. Therefore, it is very important to provide prosthetics and rehabilitate children so they can live the life their peers live.

People should be able to move, war should not take away their ability to live a normal life. And this clinic does the impossible for this. And we all need to get involved and support, donate,” says UNBROKEN project ambassador Olya Polyakova.

LLC LVIV BAKING COMPLEX was the first to join the collection and will donate 1 million hryvnias for equipment for children’s rehabilitation.

The international IT company AVENGA joined immediately and will donate 1 million hryvnias.