These wonderful stories filled with empathy, understanding, support, and recognition are written by Ukrainian children and teenagers residing in care homes in Poland. Kitabna – which means ‘Our Book’ in Arabic – made it possible for all of us to hear about the children’s hopes and dreams by co-creating these stories with the children and working in collaboration with Save The Children Child Protection teams. 

What can be better than sharing the stories together, in a circle, sharing feelings, thoughts, experiences, and understanding at the end that we are united in so many ways, no matter nation, culture, language or other obstacles or reasons? 

• Kitabna made these stories accessible for FREE online for all children and their families; To access these, go to read the Tales written by Ukrainian children, and even more stories from children all around the world.
• Would you wish to create a story of your own, with your family, or as a group, then read your story to your peers, your friends or in a storytelling space? The freely available toolkits from Kitabna are also accessed online to help you do this! 

More information about the UK-based beautiful Kitabna non-profit organisation that has been working to co-create children’s books with communities affected by conflict and disaster since 2014 all over the world can be found here.

For more information about 3VA’s Homes for Ukraine support and how we can help Ukrainian families settling in the East Sussex area please contact us on ukraine@3va.org.uk