The way home

Two more children from the occupation reunited with their families in free Ukraine

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We welcome home 6-year-old Maksym and 12-year-old Mykyta.

At the time of the full-scale invasion, both boys were staying with their grandparents - Maksym in Zaporizhzhia region, Mykyta in Luhansk region.
Both villages quickly came under occupation.

Maksym's father is defending Ukraine in the Armed Forces, so it was dangerous to go after his son.

Mykyta's grandmother tried to take her grandson out on her own, but this attempt failed, and the occupiers did...

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Meeting of brothers after two years of separation – Ukrainian Child Rights Network returns another boy from Russia

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Ukrainian Child Rights Network today returned 16-year-old Svyatoslav from Russian deportation within the framework of the project "The Way Home" project..
Це складне повернення відбулося завдяки співпраці з Мінреінтеграції, польськими дипломатами та консулом України у Любліні.

16-year-old Sviatoslav has no parents.
They were replaced by his older brother, who joined the army when the full-scale war began.
At that time, the boy lived...

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Happy family reunion: 11-year-old Denys returned from the TOT of Donetsk region

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Denis*, an 11-year-old resident of Mariupol, has not seen his mother since the beginning of the large-scale invasion.
For two long years, the woman has been looking for a way to bring her son to the government-controlled territory.
She succeeded thanks to the efforts of the Ukrainian Child Rights Network and the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine.

Denis's mother is a military servicewoman who defends our homeland with...

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Return of 17-year-old Denys from the temporarily occupied part of Zaporizhzhia

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Denys* is seventeen.
He was doing everything he could to escape to the territory of free Ukraine from the temporarily occupied part of Zaporizhzhia region, where he had lived since childhood.
He managed to reach the age of majority. His rescue was made possible by the efforts of the Ukrainian Child Rights Network and the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine.

Denys is an orphan.
Like his sister and brother, who serves in...

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Returning home of 17-year-old Myroslava

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For more than two years, the girl had been rushing to where her heart was: a free Ukraine.
First from occupation, then from deportation.
Finally, yesterday she crossed the Ukrainian border.
The Ukrainian Child Rights Network and the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine helped 17-year-old Myroslava* to return from Russia.

Sometimes it seems that this case of return is the most difficult, the most incredible, the most...

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The 6-year-old boy returned to his parents: he lived a third of his life in the occupation with his grandparents

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In May, Maksym* will turn six years old. For two of them, he lived under occupation with his grandparents. But finally, the boy returned to his parents. The Ukrainian Child Rights Network (UCRN) and the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine contributed to this.

In January 2022, Maksym's mother got a job after her maternity leave, and the boy had no one to leave him at home with, so he was taken to his grandparents in...

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