We are starting the weekend with good news. Today we managed to return another child from the temporarily occupied territory to Ukraine.
On October 10, a woman asked the Way Home team to help her take her 12-year-old relative out of the temporarily occupied territory. Victoria, the girl's name, had recently lost her mother. The woman became her legal guardian and began to look for ways to return the child to the government-controlled territory of Ukraine.
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This week another family was reunited.
We managed to bring back 9-year-old Svyatoslav and his mother Victoria from the temporarily occupied territory of Kherson region.
The boy's older brother was waiting for the family in Ukraine.
Due to difficulties with the documents, Sviatoslav and his mother waited almost 2 weeks for their return permits to be issued.
On Saturday, they managed to cross the Ukrainian border.
The return was supported by the Charitable...
The girl was born in occupied Shakhtarsk, so she had only a certificate from an "unrecognized republic," which made it difficult for them to cross the border.
This created serious obstacles to her return.
The Ukrainian Child Rights Network was contacted by our colleague Kateryna Rashevska from the Regional Center for Human Rights, who asked us to help the family get to Ukraine.
Thanks to the joint efforts of the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily...
Maksym, 3, and Anastasia, 5, crossed the border with their mother last Saturday.Now they are on the territory of free Ukraine.
The village in the Kherson region where the family lived after the start of the full-scale invasion quickly found itself under occupation. In addition to the constant stress of the war, the mother and her children were subjected to domestic violence by their father.
The man abused alcohol.
To save her children, the woman packed her...
During the occupation, the boy's mother died.
Danylo's aunt did everything possible to take him to her, but the conditions were constantly changing.
In September, the boy was supposed to be placed in an orphanage in the TOT, but thanks to our joint efforts, we managed to avoid this.
The Ukrainian Child Rights Network and the Ministry of Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine helped with the necessary documents, thought through the logistics to the last...
17-year-old Maria returned from the temporarily occupied territory to free Ukraine thanks to the efforts of the UCRN and Helping to Leave.
The working week ended on Friday with good news not only for the Way Home project team, but for the whole country.
Another child at home! On Friday, 17-year-old Maria crossed the Ukrainian border.
For the first time in a long time, she saw the Ukrainian flag, heard her native language and hugged her family.
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