“Ukrainian kids are creative and talented.
They’re camping out down in the metro, drawing, playing
and believing in a happy, peaceful life. So we have to provide them with that life.”
— Serhiy Zhadan
“Freedom is generational work. For children to grow up free,
the necessary institutions and policies must already be in place.”
— Timothy Snyder
Ukraine’s future is not waiting for the war to end.
It is growing up right now – in classrooms interrupted by air raid sirens, in frontline towns where schools are closed, in summer camps where children can laugh with friends again, in STEM labs where students are building robots, and in youth programs where young people are learning how to lead, work, create, and stay connected to their communities.
For children and young people in Ukraine, the war has taken too much: safety, routine, school years, friendships, homes, and plans for the future.
But it has not taken away their curiosity. Their talent. Their courage. Their need for joy. Or their right to imagine a life in Ukraine.
This summer, when you support Razom, you support work that helps Ukrainian children and young people keep learning, building skills, finding community, and experiencing moments of childhood even during war.
Make a gift today to help Ukraine’s next generation grow, lead, and thrive.
A Summer That Gives More Than a Break
For a child in Ukraine, summer camp can mean more than games, songs, and time outside.
It can mean sleeping in a safe place for a few days. It can mean laughing without feeling guilty.
It can mean meeting other kids who understand. It can mean remembering that they are more than what war has taken from them.
For teenagers, summer can be a chance to try something new, build confidence, discover a career path, join a team, or take part in a project that helps their own community.
These moments matter. Because Ukraine does not only need its young people to survive the war. Ukraine needs them to see a future worth staying for.
Why This Matters
Across Ukraine, young people are growing up under extraordinary pressure. Schools have been damaged or forced online. Families have been displaced. Parents are serving, working, grieving, or rebuilding. Many young Ukrainians are asking themselves whether they can build a life at home at all.
That question matters for Ukraine’s future.
Razom’s youth work is built around a simple belief: young Ukrainians need real opportunities now — not someday after victory, not someday after recovery, but now.
They need safe places to gather. They need hands-on learning. They need mentors. They need practical skills. They need joy, friendship, and a break. They need to know that their country still has room for their dreams.
Your gift helps make that possible.
What Your Gift Makes Possible
1. Help young Ukrainians keep learning
War has disrupted education across Ukraine, especially in frontline and underserved communities. Many students have limited access to hands-on learning, equipment, or safe spaces where they can gather with peers.
Razom supports STEM labs, mobile learning hubs, teacher training, advanced academic camps, robotics programs, and opportunities for Ukrainian students to compete and excel at olympiads internationally.
In 2025, Razom-supported STEM initiatives reached approximately 9,500 students across over 25 local learning centers, helping young people explore robotics, engineering, physics, astronomy, and applied science.
Your gift helps students keep learning in a country where education itself has become an act of resilience.
War should not determine a child’s potential.
Razom supports programs that help students continue learning, developing new skills, and pursuing their interests despite disruptions caused by war.
In 2025 alone:
Today, students supported through these programs are competing in international Olympiads, participating in robotics competitions, and preparing for careers that will help shape Ukraine’s future.
For children living through war, joy is not extra. It is part of recovery.
A summer camp, a youth center, a sports field, a creative workshop, or a weekend with peers can give children something they badly need: a chance to breathe.
Razom supports programs that create spaces where children and teenagers can gather safely, build friendships, discover new interests, explore who they are, and feel connected to others.
These programs do not erase the war. But they give young people moments of normalcy, confidence, and care.
Young Ukrainians are not only recipients of help. They are already rebuilding.
Razom supports youth leadership programs that help young people organize local projects, volunteer, restore community spaces, participate in school governance, and take active roles in civic life.
Through one Razom-supported partnership with Building Ukraine Together (BUR), young leaders helped mobilize hundreds of volunteers and restore community spaces in frontline and high-need regions, including youth centers and rehabilitation spaces.
Your gift helps young Ukrainians become the people their communities can count on.
One of the biggest threats to Ukraine’s future is that young people may feel they have no future there.
That is why Razom supports programs that connect young people to mentorship, career exploration, entrepreneurship, internships, and practical skills they can use in real life.
Through Razom-supported programs, thousands of young people have accessed career training, mentorship, business development, and professional networks. In one program, young people from small towns and frontline areas developed career and business ideas, received mentorship, and presented youth-led startups for seed funding.
This work helps young Ukrainians build confidence, direction, and a reason to stay connected to their country’s future.
Your gift helps young people turn possibility into a plan.
This is the future Ukraine is fighting for. Help protect it.
As Razom helps young Ukrainians learn, lead, and grow, we also continue to advocate for the return of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia.
More than 20,000 cases have been officially documented, with many more children still at risk. Razom has worked to keep this issue visible in U.S. policy conversations, public advocacy, media, and community action — including through the Bring Kids Back campaign and the teddy bear installation on the National Mall.
Because every Ukrainian child deserves to come home.
And every Ukrainian child deserves a future.
Russia’s war has also targeted Ukraine’s children directly. While the world often hears the figure of 20,000 documented deported children, the reality is much broader. Millions of Ukrainian children remain under Russian occupation, where they face forced assimilation, militarization, and efforts to erase their Ukrainian identity.
Razom continues to advocate for Ukraine’s children, support efforts to bring them home, and keep this issue at the center of public and policy conversations.
Every Ukrainian child deserves the right to grow up with their family, in their community, and in a free Ukraine.
Here is How You Can Help
enables a child from the frontline community to take part in a national science competition
covers the cost of one volunteer’s participation in a BUR camp, where they help rebuild communities in Ukraine
provides training in entrepreneurship in a 5 month program for one teenager from a small Ukrainian community
gives two children in Odesa a year-round program of scouting, leadership, and survival skills
supports teen-led initiatives in their underserved communities during a year
provides Ukrainian youth studying abroad with practical work experience in Ukrainian civil society orgs, contributing to Ukraine’s recovery through real-world projects
Stand with Ukraine’s next generation.
Together, we can help ensure that Ukraine’s future has every opportunity to succeed.
