The project ‘ZAKHYSTOK: Safe Education’ was launched in 2022 by the KSE Foundation, a charitable foundation of the Kyiv School of Economics, to restore the right of children in Ukraine to education in schools and kindergartens. The programme has become nationwide and equips with shelters in educational institutions across the country, allowing children to study offline, under the care of teachers and among their peers.
With your support, we have already equipped 91 shelters in towns and villages, covering 13 regions of Ukraine.
As a result, nearly 35,000 children have returned to offline classes at their schools and kindergartens.
In September 2024, we are launching a new stage of the initiative to support schoolchildren and preschoolers in villages and towns across the country. Together with you, we will equip shelters so that children can return to their desks and catch up on their studies.
Place for 1 child in a shelter = $150
3.5 million schoolchildren in Ukraine
600,000 of them (20%) are forced to study online because of the war
Some 10-year-old children have never attended school in person (due to COVID-19 and the full-scale invasion)
Today, students in rural areas need almost 5 years to catch up with their urban peers in reading and maths
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Online learning limits children’s access to quality education, creates educational inequality, and reduces their level of preparation for the future.
Thanks to ZAKHYSTOK, every school or kindergarten in need of shelter renovation can apply for a grant. Together we will return schoolchildren and preschoolers to their desks.
KSE Charitable Foundation is de jure two foundations, one registered in the USA, 501.c.3, and the other in Ukraine.
KSE Foundation is among the TOP 5 funds in terms of fundraising efficiency according to Forbes Ukraine.
Ukrainian Charitable Foundation KSE was founded in 2007 as a subsidiary of its non-profit corporation in the USA. Initially, with an emphasis on providing scholarships to its students. After the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, the KSE Foundation and Ukrainian enterprises and state-owned companies launched a humanitarian aid campaign for Ukraine. To date, the Fund has scaled up its activities and expanded the areas of support, investing in the development of defense capabilities, preservation of human capital, institutional development and saving lives.
The American Foundation has more than 20 years of experience and a track record of humanitarian efforts in the 1990s, 2004, 2013-2016 and now in 2022. It is focused on medical and humanitarian areas. This is a means of obtaining significant grants from international companies and foundations.
