Darya Kasyanova, chairman of the board of the Ukrainian Child Rights Network and program director of the SOS Children's Villages of Ukraine charity foundation, told Pryazovia News how her team helps return Ukrainian children who have been occupied or taken to Russia.
According to her, each case is a separate, carefully planned operation, and some cases require not only legal and psychological assistance, but also real courage.
"One of the most recent...
The Ngl.media investigationnoted that there are thousands of children in boarding schools in Ukraine, and only a minority of them are truly orphans. According to official statistics, as of 2024, there are more than 25,600 children in round-the-clock boarding schools, of whom only less than 5,000 have the status of orphans or children deprived of parental care. All the rest have their own parents and need social support rather than isolation.
However,...
Darya Kasyanova, Head of the Board of the Ukrainian Child Rights Network and Program Director of SOS Children's Villages Ukraine, told Radio Liberty that at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Ukrainian organizations cooperated with Yale University researchers, passing on information about the illegal movement of children from the temporarily occupied territories.
"I know that they had certain sources to conduct their research, investigations...
The main demand of Ukraine before a possible ceasefire is to return home every child who was taken to Russia against his or her will or left in the occupied territories. This was stated by Daria Kasyanova, Chairman of the Board of the Ukrainian Child Rights Network (UCRN) and Program Director of SOS Children's Villages Ukraine, in an interview with the Finnish newspaper Karjalainen .
"This is not our wish, but our demand that all Ukrainian children can...
The New York Times has published an article about the consequences of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funding freeze and its impact on aid programs around the world. Among the countries affected is Ukraine, where U.S.A.I.D. supported projects to protect children in the extremely vulnerable conditions of war and occupation.
In an interview with the Times, Daria Kasyanova, chair of the board of the Ukrainian Child Rights Network and...
A conversation with psychologist Yulia Rzhavska about people who work at the Support Line for children, families and social workers, on the air of "Hromadsky radio".
