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This week our team held a summer camp for 100 children from frontline towns in Ukraine. We can help many more but we need your help. The need is clear, the impact is proven, we need more monthly supporters to help more children. novi.ngo/donate

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Stand strong friends and let’s keep showing the youngest victims of war that The Novi Community cares, speaks for, and acts on the imperative of compassion and love. #ukraine #Childrenofwar #landmine #novi

Our team was here last week working in front line communities and talking with families about the challenges and hardship of restarting their livelihood again. All the while, bombs and missiles continued taking lives and destroying the toil of good people.

Formerly occupied areas outside the city of Kherson, Ukraine, fields lay fallow after Russian forces destroyed irrigation and farming machinery required for agriculture. Add to that a million tiny white flags tied to grass and twigs, each one marking a land mine.

While our team held events for children and their families, explosions and air raid sirens howled and shook the ground every hour. His family have endured the war for two years in Kyiv. What he saw and experienced this week outside Kherson was on another level of magnitude.

Novi Ukraine’s Director Sasha reflects on the devastation of frontline villages outside Kherson last week.

and made repairs to the community playground. We don’t just leave behind a fun memory, we left trauma informed kits to help the kids find their way through their experience of war.

Today The Novi Community worked in a village that had 500 residents before the war started and now has less than 100. While we worked with the kids and their parents inside the bombed cultural center, another team of amazing volunteers from EWay Chernivtsi set up a swing set…

They then got to identify their emotions of fear, sadness, anger, and joy. In the end, they decorated their portraits with hands that symbolize WHAT helps them and hearts that symbolize WHO helps them. Hope. Resilience. #children #Ukraine️

Today, we gathered with 50 children in the basement (bomb shelter) of the village school. Here, the children got to make life-sized self-portraits.

Drones and artillery pound the village with surprising frequency. Missiles recently destroyed houses here. Lives have been lost. In this part of the world, children pray at night: “If I die tonight, let me go to heaven.” #WarZoneArt #EmotionalExpression #ChildhoodInConflict

468 million kids need our help now. The Novi Community is dedicated to them all. Please join us. novi.ngo We have our work cut out for us. All of us. #novi #thenovicommunity #helpinghands #childrenofwar #warchild #ukraine #Gaza #Myanmar #Yazidi

Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse. As of November 2023 “There are 468 million children worldwide living in armed conflict zones, according to Save the Children’s research, accounting for about 20% of the world’s 2.4 billion children population…”

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