Project Impact Summary (June 2022 - December 2025)
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Over the past 3.5 years, Kids and Art for Ukraine has grown from a response to an urgent crisis into a long-term commitment to children whose lives were forever changed by war. What began as a desire to help “in any way possible” has become sustained, meaningful support — rooted in care, dignity, and belief in children’s potential.
Humanitarian Support
During this period, £28,994 was allocated to the humanitarian component of the project, helping children, families, and educators endure some of the most difficult moments of the war.
This support included:
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petrol generators during periods of complete blackouts, restoring light and warmth when it was most needed;
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the creation of artistic “Points of Resilience” in Kharkiv, Dobropillia, Shostka, Tarashcha, Lutsk, and Poltava — safe spaces where children could continue learning and creating;
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humanitarian aid delivered to liberated Kherson;
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power banks, routers, and thermoses to support daily life during disruptions;
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targeted financial assistance to teachers and students whose homes were damaged by russian shelling;
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financial support to the family of a student injured during russian attacks;
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in 2024–2025, the provision of modern power stations (EcoFlow and Bluetti) to art centres, ensuring continuity of education and creativity even during outages.
Medical Support
To date, the total value of medical assistance provided amounts to £50,315 — support that directly contributes to saving and improving young lives.
With these funds, essential medical equipment was purchased for:
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Kyiv Regional Children’s Hospital (Boyarka) — including two rehabilitation tables for patients with limited mobility, a contactless blood pressure monitor, a neuromyograph, a patient lift for people with disabilities, and a rehabilitation kit for children with musculoskeletal disorders. These tools help children regain movement, strength, and confidence. Total amount of provided help of £40,335
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Dolyna Multidisciplinary Hospital (Neonatal Department) — a patient monitor costing £2,473, allowing continuous monitoring of vital indicators (pulse, pressure, oxygen saturation, breathing, ECG, temperature, etc.), which allows doctors to quickly assess the condition of newborns’ during the first critical minutes of life.
Ternopil Regional Centre for Child Rehabilitation and Development — a neuromyograph that enabled the centre, for the first time, to admit patients for inpatient treatment, opening new possibilities for recovery and long-term care and is used to diagnose diseases of the neuromuscular system. The cost of financial help is £ 7,506.66
Art and Educational Support
A total of £49,912 was allocated to the artistic and educational components of the project — investments not only in skills and equipment, but in emotional safety, stability, and hope.
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Art Support
£16,882 was directed toward art supplies for all project participants, including paints, brushes, easels, and canvases.
For many children, art became the only safe space — a place to breathe, to process fear and loss, and to express feelings that words could not hold. Through art, children were able to remain children.
Educational Support
An additional £33,030 supported the educational needs of all art schools, based on their direct requests. Funds were used for:
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upgrading technical and material infrastructure;
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laptops for teachers to enable distance learning;
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smart boards, smart TVs, and printers;
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graphic tablets;
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targeted assistance to children affected by the war.
In addition, laptops worth £3,630 were donated directly to educational institutions by project donors — a gesture of trust and solidarity that made an immediate difference.
Our Participants
To date, 450 young artists from 33 educational centres and art schools across Ukraine, including institutions displaced from currently occupied territories, have been directly involved in the project, and they all have received support.
Each of these centres represents a community of children, teachers, and families who chose to continue creating, learning, and believing despite uncertainty.
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List of Participating educational centres and art schools:
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Volodymyr Children’s Art School named after Mykola Rokytskyi
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Communal Institution “Lutsk Art School”
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Vinnytsia Children’s Art School
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Vinnytsia City Palace of Children and Youth named after Lyali Ratushnoi, Fine Art Group “Art Side”
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Centre of Children’s and Youth Creativity, Fine Arts Studio “Fantaziya”, Dobropillia, Donetsk Region
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Zhytomyr Children and Youth Creativity Centre, Studio “Young Artist”, Group “Young Designer”
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Centre for Creativity of Children and Youth of the Oleksandrivskyi District, Zaporizhzhia City Council, Fine Art Studio “Vesely Penzlyk”
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Ivano-Frankivsk Children’s Art School
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“Veselka” After-School Education Centre of Tarashcha City Council, Kyiv Region, Folk Art Studio “Palitra”
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Svitlovodsk Children’s School of Arts
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Kremin Art School, Kreminna, Luhansk Region
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Olena Zuyenko Art Studio, Lviv
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Rozdilna City School of Arts, Odesa Region
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Poltava Children’s Art School
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Rivne Children’s Art School named after A.I. Martynenko
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Sumy Children’s Art School named after M.H. Lysenko
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Halytskyi Vocational College named after Viacheslav Chornovil, Ternopil
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Palace of Children’s and Youth Creativity “ISTOK”, Kharkiv City Council
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House of Children’s Creativity of the Nova Kakhovka City Council, Kherson Region
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Kamianets-Podilskyi City Children’s Art School
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Khmelnytskyi Palace of Children’s and Youth Creativity, Exemplary Art Collective
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Cherkasy Children’s Art School named after Danylo Narbut
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Chernihiv Regional Centre for Scientific and Technical Creativity of Pupils, Art Studio “Veselka”
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Kyiv State Art Lyceum named after Taras Shevchenko
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Naum Ostashynskyi Children’s Art Studio, Pechersk District, Kyiv
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Bila Tserkva Art School No.1 named after Yurii Pavlenko
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Mukachevo Art School named after M. Munkácsy
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Pryluky Specialized School of Arts, Chernihiv Region
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Palace of Student Youth, Lutsk City Council
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Viktor Shkurynskyi Art School, Zhytomyr
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Art School named after O.O. Osmyorkin, Kropyvnytskyi
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Art school “Kherson Unconquered”
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Technological Vocational College of Lviv Polytechnic National University (request approved )
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Art School No. 1 of Bakhmut
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Netishyn Comprehensive Rehabilitation Centre for People with Disabilities “MRIYA”
Financial Overview
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Total spent to date: £133,398.25, including transportation costs
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Newly approved requests across all three areas: £13,500
Beyond Numbers: Human Impact
Beyond the material assistance described above, one of the most meaningful outcomes of Kids and Art for Ukraine has been the motivation it gave children to keep creating and developing their talents — and the powerful experience of having those talents recognised internationally.
Paintings purchased in London have travelled to buyers’ homes around the world. This visibility has had a profound emotional impact: children feel seen, valued, and less alone in the face of war.
The remaining balance will be used for the same purpose. Unfortunately, the war in Ukraine continues, and another cold and challenging winter lies ahead.
We remain committed to providing light and warmth — not only physically, but emotionally — to children in Ukraine.
Because when a child continues to create, hope continues to exist.
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We are extremely happy to share the latest news of the "Kids and Art for Ukraine" project.
Almost 20,000 thousand pounds (842,332 UAH) was sent to satisfy the medical direction of the project, and with this amount, critically necessary equipment for the diagnosis of rare neurological diseases in the Kyiv Regional Children's Hospital in the city of Boyarka - an electroneuromyograph, as well as rehabilitation equipment - a ceiling lift with lifting bracket, suspended rail and charging systems, and the Balance Trainer software and technical complex. All this equipment will benefit hundreds of children from the entire Kyiv region and beyond!
Regarding the educational direction, we are also happy to share the first results - the Art School named after Viktor Shkurynsky of the Zhytomyr City Council has already received graphic tablets and special gloves for them, and Vinnytsia Children's Art School has already been sent. These modern tools will allow Ukrainian talented children to improve their skills and master new work techniques - graphic design!
In March 2023, the British charity Digital Poverty Alliance actively joined the "KIDS and ART for UKRAINE" charity program.
Thanks to these British patrons, 24 laptops with a total value of 15,000.0 pounds arrived in Ukraine. Nine of them were given free of charge to art institutions from the occupied Kreminnaya Luhansk Oblast and Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson Oblast. Notebooks were also received by teachers and students of the People's Art Collective of the Fine Arts Studio "Fantaziya" from Dobropyll, Donetsk Oblast, the Studio "Vesely Penzlyk" from Zaporizhzhia, the Fine Arts Studio "Palitra" of the Center for Out-of-School Education in Tarasha, Kyiv Oblast, the students of the Art Center "Artgalaktika" » from Poltava and the Fine Arts Studio named after Naum Ostashynskyi from Kyiv.
In April 2023, the international charity program "KIDS and ART for UKRAINE" directed funds in the amount of 5,700.0 pounds to the "International Educational School" Charitable Fund for the purchase of humanitarian aid to art institutions of Ukraine to update the material and technical base and modernize the educational process of children's art education and youth of Ukraine and artistic materials for the continuation of art education during the war for the most active participants in the formation of the exposition of the charitable Exhibitions "My Unconquered Ukraine" in London.
In response to the administration's request, HUMANITARIAN AID was received from the charity program by the staff of the Volodymyr Children's Art School named after Mykola Rokytskyi, Volyn region. The material and technical base of the art institution during the war was supplemented by 25 E1 sketchbooks (45x25x10.5 cm) and 6 IKEA LERSTA lighting floor lamps with a total cost of 1500.00 pounds.
At the request of the administration of the Lutsk Children's Art School of the Volyn region to solve the problem of purchasing energy-saving lamps to improve lighting in 18 classrooms, each with an area of 50-70 square meters, the institution of primary art education received appropriate HUMANITARIAN AID. 72 linear LED lamps FLF-02 SQ 100W NW 1.21m with a total cost of 1,600.00 pounds were purchased and given free of charge with the funds of the "KIDS and ART for UKRAINE" charity program.
The renewal of the material base of the elementary art education institution with the assistance of the charity program "KIDS and ART for UKRAINE", initiated by a letter from the administration and the parent committee of the Kamianets-Podilskyi City Children's Art School of the Khmelnytskyi region, was supported by the organizers of the charity program. 25 ROSA Lyra #41 stationary easels, pine, 71x80x170 cm, total cost of £600.00, were purchased and provided free of charge to the institution. These new easels replaced the old ones that had been used in the art school for 40 years.
December 2022 was generous for humanitarian aid provided under the “CHILDREN AND ART FOR UKRAINE” Charity Program to support art education. 28 art and educational institutions, art schools, studios and clubs from all regions of Ukraine, including those from the temporarily occupied territories, received free of charge 114 professional art sets and painting kits (quality canvases, acrylic paints, bleach, brushes, spatulas, etc.) having the total cost of £2500.00. The recipients of aid include pupils of art schools from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine from Nova Kakhovka city in the Kherson Region and from Kreminna city town of the Luhansk Region, who currently have to live in different regions across Ukraine.
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THE AMOUNT OF HUMANITARIAN AID PROVIDED in Ukraine during January-February 2023 under the “KIDS and ART for UKRAINE” Charity Program and aimed at continuing art education during the war has totaled to £13,264.00.
Due to the joint and coordinated activities of the organizers of the “KIDS and ART for UKRAINE” Charity Program, the beginning of the 2023 year has been marked by a number of fruitful events. INVINCIBILITY ART CENTRES started their work in the Centers of Children’s Creativity in Dobropylla city of Donetsk Region, in Shostka city of Sumy Region, in Tarasha town of Kyiv Region, in Lutsk city of Volyn Region, in Poltava city and in the Educational and Rehabilitation Center in Terebovlia town of Ternopil Region, which received free of charge 6 power generators, 10 power banks, 19 rechargeable lamps and 30 heaters at a total cost of £4164.00.
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In February 2023, the staff of the Poltava Children’s Art School received HUMANITARIAN AID following the request made by the school administration and the parent committee. The art school received free of charge 15 rechargeable LED floodlights for classrooms and air raid shelters worth £550.00.
In February 2023, following the request from the school administration and the parent committee of the Lyceum No. 15 of the hero city of Chernigov made in connection with the humanitarian issues which the school art groups had to face because of the war, the talented children of the Lyceum received free of charge HUMANITARIAN AID which included: 100 sets of training clothes and shoes for the participants of the Exemplary Choreographic Sports Dance Group “ELIT”, autonomous acoustic equipment, radio systems, mixing console with effects processor and 2 rechargeable LED spotlights for the hall and 5 snow-white benches for the dressing room worth £5000.00.
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Vocal Studio “CARAMEL” of the Gymnasium No. 31 in Cherkasy city, Studio Head – Svitlana Semiletkina, received 20 rechargeable lamps and 1 power bank under the “KIDS and ART for UKRAINE” Charity Program.
Folk Dance School “SVITANOK” in Kropyvnytskyi city of Kirovohrad Region, school head – Maksym Pechenenko, received 18 rechargeable lamps and 2 power banks under the “KIDS and ART for UKRAINE” Charity Program.
Folk Dance Ensemble “FRIENDSHIP” of the Palace of Children and Youth in Rivne city, Ensemble head – Nataliya Dzyubenko, choreographers – Nataliya Viyuk and Andriy Maiboroda, received 3 rechargeable lamps and 2 power banks under the “KIDS and ART for UKRAINE” Charity Program.
