KFC Ukraine and SavED Foundation team up to supply educational spaces for children from front-line areas
The KFC Ukraine restaurant network is teaming up with the SaveED charity foundation to support a program to set up educational spaces for children in school bomb shelters, Rubryka reports.
What's the problem?
Russia is intentionally destroying Ukrainian education. According to the Ministry of Education and Science, 3,798 educational institutions have been damaged, with over 365 destroyed as of December 2023.
The Ukrainian generation currently attending school will inherit Ukraine's post-war recovery. Even during the war, childhood cannot be put on pause, and every lost school year without socialization and systematic education will affect the development of future citizens.
While the main efforts of Ukrainians are directed toward assisting the military, the "Task with an Asterisk" program is no less important because it cannot wait — children need to study today to have a better tomorrow.
What's the solution?
The charity initiative was launched on March 1 and will last for a year to raise 10.5 million hryvnias. This amount will be enough to equip full-fledged underground shelters in three schools in Ukraine.
The shelters will be equipped by the "build back better" principle, which involves creating a fundamentally new, comfortable, and safe educational space, SavED reported.
KFC will donate part of the proceeds from selected menu items. The restaurant client can also purchase a charity sticker pack, with all proceeds going toward fundraising.
How does it work?
Products can be purchased at all KFC restaurants operating in Ukraine and through all sales channels: at the restaurant's checkout and terminals, via drive-thru, or when ordering delivery by adding the specified items to the order. This month, the featured item is the Twister.
"Our audience responds quite positively to our initiatives. KFC has been implementing charity projects since 2016, so our guests are accustomed to it. They trust our brand because we constantly report where we have donated money and choose transparent funding," said KFC Ukraine. "We report primarily to our employees, showing them what good deeds we have done together. This inspires the team. If you look at the funds raised by KFC (we are proud of them), the amount of funds raised constantly increases year after year despite various difficult circumstances in the country."
You can learn more about the charity project on the KFC website.
Rubryka reported that the Cyberpolice Department of the National Police of Ukraine launched the first portal for reporting sexual violence against children online — StopCrime.
Rubryka also shares the story of the "Furniture for Shelter" project, which was conceived, sketched, and implemented by a small team of teenagers. Read more about it in our article: "How schoolchildren in Mykolaiv region learned to make furniture to improve school shelters."
