09.08.2024

Saving Lives improves the health of children of military personnel and veterans

The humanitarian initiative of the Metinvest Group "Saving Lives" pays considerable attention to the issues of improving the health and psychological relief of children who are experiencing the stress of war, therefore, precisely for this purpose, this summer it will organize the improvement of 100 children of employees of the company's Ukrainian enterprises. Rest, including transfer, is free for children.

The Hogwarts camp from the Super Camp network in the Carpathians will be attended by children from the families of personnel who died during military service, were captured, went missing, as well as children of veterans who returned to the company's enterprises after demobilization.

80 children from Zaporizhzhia, Kryvyi Rih and Pokrovsk are already resting in the Carpathians, and the remaining 20 children will go to the camp in mid-August. The rest of each group of children will last 10 days. Various sports and water activities, master classes and self-development, excursions and hikes, medical and psychological support await children at the camp. And, of course, magical actions and magical disciplines.

"We continue to take care of children and support the families of defenders who died protecting our future, as well as veterans who started working at Metinvest enterprises. I am sure that the Carpathians will become a place of strength and psychological rehabilitation for children who have experienced heavy losses. Adventures and a fabulous atmosphere will help overcome stress and experience life in a new way," said Tetyana Petruk, director of sustainable development and interaction with the staff of the Metinvest Group.

Saving lives humanitarian initiative was created by the Metinvest Group in coordination with the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation at the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Since the beginning of the full-scale war, the project has helped more than half a million people. Ukrainians received 4,200 tons of products and hygiene products, and hospitals received medicines and equipment worth UAH 9.5 million.

10 foundations and public organizations joined the project, as well as more than 250 donor companies from around the world. During his work, the amount of aid from donors exceeded 2.8 million euros.

Among the main areas of work of Saving Lives are prosthetics and rehabilitation of military and civilians, as well as psychological rehabilitation of women and children. Since the beginning of the full-scale war, almost 1,200 women and children have undergone psychological rehabilitation with the assistance of the initiative.

 

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