The National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War became the venue for a large-scale event timed to coincide with Children’s Protection Day. The NGO “All-Ukrainian Association ‘Patriot’”, led by Hanna Maiboroda, founder and head of the organization, brought together representatives of the state, international partners, and the civil sector to discuss a range of pressing issues related to the protection, upbringing, and education of children during the war.
As the organizers note, the aim of the event was to create a public platform for interagency, civic, and international dialogue centered on the needs of the child themselves.
As part of the event and the partnership between the Museum and the NGO, a banner exhibition resulting from the project “Faces of the Ukrainian Dream” has been installed on the museum grounds. The team of the NGO “All-Ukrainian Association ‘Patriot’” collected sincere stories and dreams of children, because it is their voices that are especially important to hear and to bring to the wider public today.
This exhibition resonates strongly with the museum’s own project “Children…” – a martyrology of boys and girls killed as a result of Russia’s full-scale invasion. Both projects demonstrate that Russian armed aggression is aimed at destroying Ukraine’s future and that today, more than ever, children and childhood itself are in urgent need of protection.
