Evacuation of Critically Ill Children

The City of Goodness emergency medical team works around the clock, every day of the year. We evacuate children from frontline and occupied territories — those who were forgotten, those who could not be reached in time, those who had no one to protect them. The foundation’s ambulances cover tens of thousands of kilometers annually: rescuing children under shelling, transporting them to surgeries, and making diagnostic visits to partner clinics across Ukraine. For many children, this vehicle was the first step toward safety and treatment.

Protection of Women’s and Children’s Rights

The Women’s Rights Protection Department of City of Goodness provides free legal and psychological assistance to women who have survived domestic violence, lost documents due to the war, or found themselves in a legal deadlock with no resources. The foundation’s lawyers provide support in court cases, help restore documents, and defend property rights and custody rights.

For children, the protection of rights means access to healthcare, education, and a family environment. City of Goodness fights to ensure that no child remains in a system that has forgotten them.

“Mama Sews” Academy and Adaptive Clothing

The “Mama Sews” Academy offers many women their first experience of a profession and financial independence. In the safe space of City of Goodness, mothers learn the craft of sewing, develop practical skills, and rediscover confidence in their own abilities. While a mother studies, her child is cared for or undergoes rehabilitation — everything in one place.

A special and deeply meaningful part of this program is the sewing of adaptive clothing for seriously ill children. Clothing that is easy to put on a child connected to tubes and medical equipment. Clothing in which a child feels comfortable and warm. For the mothers who make it, this is not just a skill — it is care sewn by their own hands for those who need it most.

Mentorship Program for Women

Women who arrive at City of Goodness in crisis gradually rebuild themselves and their capacity to shape their own future. The mentorship program accompanies this journey: career consultants help women identify their strengths, find a direction, and take the first practical steps toward financial independence. Alongside them are psychologists, lawyers, and above all — a community of women who understand each other without needing many words.

“Caring Butterfly” — Support and Training for Parents and Caregivers of Seriously Ill Children

Caring for a child with an incurable illness is one of the hardest things a person can endure. City of Goodness sees these parents and caregivers — and reaches out to them. The “Caring Butterfly” program combines practical training with emotional support: how to care for a child at home, how to understand their condition, how to communicate with them and about them. Parents receive knowledge, tools, and a space to breathe — not alone, but alongside those who truly understand.

Educational Opportunities

Every child at City of Goodness has the right to education — regardless of diagnosis, legal status, or past. Children from the palliative unit study within the walls of the center itself. Those whose condition allows it attend a mainstream school for the first time — sitting alongside other children, in an ordinary classroom. For those who cannot speak, alternative communication programs are developed. For those who have never held a pencil, occupational therapy sessions become their first lesson.

Education here is not a subject. It is a return to life.

Shelter and Care for Evacuated Elderly Women

Among those who seek refuge at City of Goodness are older women who, because of the war, have lost their homes, their families, or the ability to care for themselves. They receive shelter, meals, medical support, and human warmth. For many of them, City of Goodness is the first place in many months where someone asked: how are you feeling?

Tails — Animal Shelter

Dogs that have survived war or trauma find treatment, care, and the chance at a new life at “Tails.” But Tails is more than a shelter. It is a therapeutic space woven naturally into the rehabilitation environment of the center. Joint canine therapy sessions help reduce anxiety in children, develop empathy, and restore a sense of safe connection with the world. For the dogs, it is socialization and a path to a new family. For the children, it is the warmth of a living creature that asks nothing and simply stays close.

Fulfilling Dreams and Protecting Childhood

Thousands of children’s dreams have come true thanks to City of Goodness and its donors. This is not a metaphor. These are real wishes of real children — written down, heard, and fulfilled. A trip to a store where, for the first time in their life, they could choose their own clothes. A first birthday with a cake and candles. A new earring after being discharged from hospital. For a child who grew up in an institution or spent their earliest years under shelling, each of these dreams is a restoration of dignity — and the understanding that they are not invisible.

Humanitarian Mission

City of Goodness reaches beyond the boundaries of its own complex. We organize days of goodness in the most remote mountain villages — places where no other help arrives and where people have lived for years with the feeling that they have been forgotten. Our humanitarian mission is a reminder: no place in Ukraine is too far for care to reach.

Everything City of Goodness does exists solely because of donors. Without government funding. Without automatic income. Only because people decided that these children, these women, and these lives are worth attention and support.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​