This is a proud moment for UCAP:
On behalf of the Ukrainian parliament, Marian Zablotsky, a deputy from the presidential party Servant of the People, expresses gratitude to Ukraine Children’s Action Network cofounders Karen Redlener and Irwin Redlener for the recent delivery of school buses to the devastated region of Chernihiv.
The Ukraine Children's Action Project (UCAP), a United States-based non-profit organization, has been working since May 2022 to piece the lives of Ukrainian children back together, raising funds to assist Ukrainian programs supporting children who have experienced psychological trauma or who are not able to continue their education.
A recent project of theirs—donating refurbished school buses to replace the buses destroyed throughout Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
UCAP purchased and refurbished six school buses in Poland and donated them to Chernihiv, a city in northern Ukraine located between the capital, Kyiv, and the Belarus border in north-central Ukraine. The city was one of the first regions to be occupied by Russian forces in the spring of 2022.
The Russians stole or destroyed thousands of vehicles, leaving children no mode of transportation to school. There has been rampant random destruction by Russia, in general, of buildings, including hospitals, but particularly schools.
The schools seem to have been deliberately targeted throughout Ukraine. The trauma of this war and its impact on the country's children will greatly harm the future ability of Ukraine to recover.
The suffering in Ukraine, for example, is shared among the entire population, the adults, the children, and the military. But the thing about the children is that they represent the future of the country.
