By KYIV. Nov 9 (Interfax-Ukraine) – A Rescue Center has been opened in Kyiv for war victims and people, who have been physically or psychologically abused, with the assistance of Ukraine’s partners from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
The opening was attended by the First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska.
"With UNFPA partners, we have opened a Rescue Center in Kyiv today. This is the fourth such institution in the country (after Lviv, Dnipro, Zaporizhia). Like others, it will provide all possible assistance to victims of the war, help Ukrainians who have been physically or psychologically abused, including by the occupiers," Zelenska said on her Telegram.
According to her, the Center has social workers, lawyers, psychologists for adults and children, as well as specialists to whom victims of violence can turn.
"We are all living and working now in conditions of daily confrontation with Russian violence: the aggressor intentionally maims, kills, tortures, rapes thousands of our people. Saving is always difficult. Sometimes it is even more difficult to save psychologically or socially than to physically take them out from under shelling. But difficult does not mean impossible. Such centers prove it: by saving each individual person, we are saving the whole country," she said.
The institution is located at 6A Raduzhna Street.
The Rescue centers were created at the initiative of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration with the assistance of the Government Commissioner for Gender Policy and the support of the UNFPA.
