Education Cannot Wait: Equipping shelters for schoolchildren
For nearly three years, the KSE Foundation has been working consistently to bring children back to offline learning — despite the ongoing threat of war. With your support, we’ve already equipped 99 shelters, allowing over 37,500 children to return to the classroom.
Now, this work is expanding: we’ve launched a new phase of shelter reconstruction under the Multi-Year Resilience Programme (MYRP). In partnership with Education Cannot Wait, the UN’s global fund for education in emergencies, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, and other partners, we are creating more safe spaces for long-term and comfortable in-person learning.
As part of this initiative, the KSE Foundation will equip 21 more shelters, enabling 8,500+ children to safely resume in-person education.
In 2022, shortly after the full-scale invasion began, the KSE Foundation launched the “ZAKHYSTOK: Safe Education” initiative aimed at equipping shelters in schools and kindergartens across Ukraine. Endorsed by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the initiative quickly scaled to the national level. To date, 99 shelters across 13 regions have been equipped, bringing over 37,500 students and preschoolers back to offline learning.
Today, our shelter program is growing further: we have begun renovations under the Multi-Year Resilience Programme (MYRP), funded by Education Cannot Wait (ECW) — a global UN fund dedicated to supporting education in emergencies and protracted crises.
Overall, MYRP in Ukraine will reach more than 40,000 children and 12,000 teachers from the most socially vulnerable communities.
About MYRP in Ukraine
Launched in 2024, the Multi-Year Resilience Programme (MYRP) is designed to restore, strengthen, and rebuild the education system in Ukraine’s most war-affected regions. The program is implemented by two consortia of Ukrainian and international organizations, including:
KSE Foundation, EdCamp Ukraine, Projector Foundation, Teach for Ukraine, Osvitoria, SavEd, Finn Church Aid Ukraine, DOCCU, Dream and Act Foundation, and GoGlobal.
MYRP is implemented with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.