The soldiers, the barricades, the guns…. it’s incredibly distressing. Imagine being an orphaned child already separated from family, placed in an institution and all that entails… and now being told to flee for your life from bombs in the sky. The amount of trauma for the orphaned and vulnerable children of Ukraine is unreal. It’s devastating!

New Horizons for Children is on the ground in Ukraine working with orphanages and boarding schools all across the country. Already we have helped create 26 Safe Havens for over 2,000 children to have shelter, food, medical care, and other resources right in Ukraine close to the border. This relocates everyone to a safe place, yet limits the trauma of moving children so quickly to a new country and system of care and keeps them with their known caregivers. Each facility is prepared with bedding, food, medical supplies, trauma informed resources, and other needs.

With Ukraine asking to partner with New Horizons for Children with a memorandum of understanding to care for all the orphaned children needing evacuation and shelter, Project Safe Haven has become much larger than what we originally thought. With this in mind, we have now established NHFC Ukraine which is focused solely on Ukraine, and we are now hoping to create a centralized village of orphanages.

Please encourage your church, your friends, and your neighbors to join in the efforts to help care for the children of Ukraine. Here are three ways to do this.