Project "Treasure Shelters": Creating Safe Spaces for Children in Frontline Communities

In June, the Public Resources and Initiatives Charity Foundation launched a new project titled "Treasure Shelters", aimed at protecting the most precious treasures we have — our children.

Every day, children in frontline communities of the Dnipropetrovsk region are forced to spend a significant part of their childhood in bomb shelters. This is not a scene from a movie — it’s their daily reality. Yet even in such circumstances, childhood must remain childhood.

The project seeks to transform cold concrete shelters into warm, safe, and functional spaces for learning, play, and psychological support. For children in Nikopol, Kryvyi Rih district, and frontline villages of Synelnykivskyi district, we will equip shelters with furniture, books, games, and multimedia equipment. Each of these spaces will serve as a small island of normalcy — even in the very heart of war. Even when missiles are exploding outside.

Over 200 children will be able to stay in safe shelters not only during air raid alerts but also participate in educational and recreational activities that foster resilience and support their mental health.

“This project isn’t about walls. It’s about faith. In our children, in the strength of the community, in the future — in our treasures,” says Olena Tanasiychuk, President of the Public Resources and Initiatives Charity Foundation. “Children are our future. Their safety, well-being, and ability to dream even in the darkest times is our moral duty. Every equipped shelter is an investment in the generation that will rebuild our country after victory.”

The project is implemented in cooperation with local religious and educational institutions that already function as shelters and will remain accessible to communities even after the project concludes. This ensures the long-term impact of the initiative on the well-being of local children.

The project is supported by the Religious Organization "Religious Administration of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ukraine."