The “VeteranPRO” veterans’ hub in Bucha has handed gifts to sixteen children from the families of fallen and missing Ukrainian defenders — eight girls and eight boys. All of them are under the continuing care of the hub’s specialists.
This was announced in a statement by the Bucha City Council.
The initiative was made possible by a donor who passed the gifts through the veterans’ hub. She did not give her name.
Behind the dry figure of “16 children” stand families living in the hardest state of uncertainty there is. The children of the missing are a category of their own: for them there is no funeral, no answer, no date after which grieving can begin. Psychologists call it “frozen grief,” and it is precisely these families who most often slip out of view of support systems, because formally nothing has happened yet.
Veterans’ hubs such as Bucha’s “VeteranPRO” were created so that families like these are not lost track of. It is not an aid distribution point but a place where each family is assigned a specialist who knows their circumstances and stays in touch for years, not once.
“It is from acts like these — small at first glance, yet extraordinarily important — that the kind of support is born which helps children feel they have not been left alone with their pain, that the community remembers, cares and is always close by,” the city council said.
Anyone wishing to help support the families of defenders can do so through the “VeteranPRO” veterans’ hub in Bucha.
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