About the project. “Skrynia V Ukryttia” (“Chest for shelter”) is the author’s development of the NGO “Smart Osvita” team and psychologist Svitlana Roiz. These are three options for sets of things children of all ages will need in shelters during air raids. The chests are designed considering the characteristics of elementary, middle, and high school students. Each is designed for a simultaneous stay in the shelter of one hundred children.
The chests included things that will help children cope with anxiety: anti-stress toys, karemat puzzles, lighting devices, warm blankets, board games, books specially matched for different ages, coloring pages on patriotic themes, and more. Psychologist Svitlana Roiz selected each item with the NGO “Smart Osvita” team as a result of an analysis of strategies for coping with stress, which children most often use. The objects were combined to give protection on all levels: visual, auditory, and tactile. In addition, many things have value for psychological comfort and physical — they warm and illuminate. After all, sometimes the shelter is a typical basement, where it is often cold, and there are not always enough light sources.
Currently, the pilot version of the project has started. The first 15 schools test the composition of the chests, and “Smart Osvita” analyzes the needs and, if necessary, makes changes before filling the subsequent batches.
Goal. To help children cope with anxiety and overcome possible stress, make their stay in the shelter as comfortable as possible. Provide educators with materials to create more favorable conditions for learning and leisure while staying in shelters with students.
The following worked on the development of chest filling:
– the team of the NGO “Smart Osvita”;
– psychologist Svitlana Roiz;
– Children’s Reading Laboratory “BaraBuka” of the National Center “Minor Academy of Sciences of Ukraine” headed by Tetyana Stus;
– illustrator Lidiia Golosko.
Partners:
- ChildFund;
- MBO “Eastern Europe Foundation”;
- Terre des Hommes.
Term: from December 2022.
Coloring pages on a patriotic theme from chests are freely available to download and print: https://bit.ly/3JGRGCr
Feedback from the participants of the project “Chest for Shelter”: http://bit.ly/4094RRZ
Media about the project
2024
- Kyivshchyna 24/7: Bobrytskyi Lyceum joined the ‘Chest for Shelter’ project
2023
- Nova Ukrainska Shkola: The first ‘Chest for Shelter’ has already been sent to schools: about the ‘Smart Osvita’ project and Svitlana Roiz
- Osvitoriia: NGO ‘Smart Osvita’ sent the first chests to school shelters
- 4mama: Supporting children during an air raid: the important project ‘Chest for Shelter’
- MamaTato: The NGO ‘Smart Osvita’ together with Svitlana Roiz launched the project ‘Chest for Shelter’ for schools
- Odeskyi monitor: Artsyz Lyceum 4 received a resource chest for children in shelters from the NGO ‘Smart Osvita’ team
- Pro vse.ck.ua: The Cherkasy school became one of the fifteen selected educational institutions in Ukraine that received the ‘Chest for Shelter’
- Viddil osvity, kultury, molodi ta sportu Horodotskoi silskoi rady Rivnenskoho raionu Rivnenskoi oblasti: NGO ‘Smart Osvita’ sent the first chests to school shelters
- ZMI.ck.ua: Cherkasy school received ‘Chest for Shelter’
- VyChErpno: Cherkasy school received a ‘Chest for Shelter’
- Visimnadtsiat try nuli: The Cherkasy school became one of the selected institutions of the country that received the ‘Chest for Shelter’
- Procherk: Cherkasy School Received ‘Chest for Shelter’
- Nova doba: One of the schools in Cherkasy received the ‘Chest for Shelter’