Ukraine's Zelenska Foundation to restore children's creative and sports hub in Borodianka
Фото: Телеграм / Олена Зеленська
The Olena Zelenska Foundation is starting a project to restore a children's creative and sports hub in Borodianka, Kyiv region. The building was destroyed by Russian forces during the occupation of the town in the spring of 2022.
The restoration of the facility is planned to receive $1 million in funding.
What is the solution?
Borodianka is one of the most destroyed towns in the Kyiv region, which suffered Russian occupation for over a month.
Russian forces attacked the town with aerial bombs, wiping out all houses and terrorizing civilians. Approximately 164 buildings were damaged, and 42 were completely destroyed.
The local Children and Youth Center was also damaged by shelling. The First Lady recalled that before the war, almost every child in the village and several neighboring communities attended the center to develop their talents.
The building housed the Borodyanka Children and Youth Center with fifty clubs, a children's and youth sports school, and a children's art school with nearly 2,000 students.
What is the solution?
The Olena Zelenska Foundation is starting a project to restore a children's creative and sports hub in Borodianka.
How does it work?
The Temerty Family, which has been collaborating with the First Lady of Ukraine's Foundation since the beginning of the full-scale war, provides the funds for construction.
Photo: Olena Zelenska
Zelenska, with the director of Ukrainian initiatives of the Temerty Family Foundation, Krystina Waler, and the head of the Kyiv Regional State Administration, Ruslan Kravchenko, visited the site where the children's center used to be located and discussed the initial steps in implementing the joint project.
Photo: Olena Zelenska
The First Lady noted that rebuilding the children's hub in Borodyanka is an investment in the future, and it should become one of the hundreds of stories of recovery across Ukraine.
A year ago, the Canadian foundation was one of the first to join in providing humanitarian assistance to residents of the occupied regions of Ukraine.
The total amount of direct documented damage to Ukraine's infrastructure caused by Russia's full-scale war was estimated at $150 and a half billion as of June 2023.
