Can you see an opportunity here to help Ukrainian children?

“On the Ground, Hands On, Transparent”

One of 250 children receiving the first batch of tablets for remote learning

In that spirit, we have been to Poland and Ukraine four times, most recently a few weeks ago, just when the Russians had stepped up their bombing, focused on Kyiv and Lviv (where we happened to be staying!).

Also, please check out our updated Website: www.UkraineCAP.org,

we think you’ll like what you see!

Here’s where we are:

–         We’re helping develop education support services for kids in Ukraine’s orphanages and residential facilities;

–         We are sending hundreds of children to “Recovery Camps” one of the most effective programs we have ever encountered for caring for kids with severe psychological stress;

–         We sent dozens of Ukraine refugee children to summer camps in Warsaw;

–        We have almost completed an advanced on-line training program for teachers in Warsaw and Lviv to help them deal with highly traumatized children in their classrooms;

         We are providing some 250 computer tablets to allow displaced kids to study remotely when they are unable to get into regular classrooms. This is just the beginning we’d like to provide up to 700 tablets if we can raise the funds;

Families getting UCAP wood-burning stoves for cooking and heating in Bobrovitsa

   –    Facing a potentially tough winter in a country that is having its electrical grid systems and fuel supply lines deliberately wrecked by the Russians, we want to greatly expand what we’re doing under a project we call “Winter Rx”. Already we are helping by purchasing and distributing

o  Hundreds of wood-burning stoves,

o  Back-up generators, and

o  Winter boots and clothes for children.

We have started a new exchange program for pediatric experts in the U.S. to help with advance training for doctors at the St. Nicolaus Children’s Hospital (SNCH) in Lviv.

–         We are starting this program by assisting the SNCH docs deal with many child war victims transferred from front-line communities to Lviv, suffering from burns and traumatic injuries;

And we have much, much more to do. (By “we” we mean you and us.)

Look, we know what it’s like to give money to a charity for a worthy cause. Sometimes you have no idea whether your dollars have actually made any discernible difference. That will never be the case with UCAP. And we have met, on the ground (not that we have anything against Zoom), leaders of every agency and institution we support, plus we relate to members of the Ukraine Parliament, mayors, and their key staffers.

And finally, we may be relatively small, but we are very big in advocating for support from government and international agencies to make sure that Ukraine’s youngest victims of war do not get forgotten! That’s why Irwin takes every opportunity he can to write and speak about the plight of Ukraine’s children

Thanks again for your support,

Irwin & Karen Redlener