Safe Online | First-hand testimony of 12-year-old Sasha from Mariupol @SafeOnline2024 | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
Since February 24, 2022, in Ukraine, 487 children have been killed and 954 injured, 345 went missing. 4.1 million children are in need of humanitarian assistance, according to UNICEF. They are being abducted, deported and kidnapped. 5 million lost access to education. The percentage of children living in poverty has almost doubled from 43% to 82%. They are in the middle of war, observing how everything around them is being destroyed – from schools and hospitals to their homes.
“My name is Sasha, I am looking for my mom. We were separated in a filtration camp… Russians told me my mom doesn’t care about me any longer," he shares. Sasha’s story is just one story out of 16 thousand.
Since February 24, 2022, in Ukraine, 487 children have been killed and 954 injured, 345 went missing. 4.1 million children are in need of humanitarian assistance, according to UNICEF. They are being abducted, deported and kidnapped. 5 million lost access to education. The percentage of children living in poverty has almost doubled from 43% to 82%. They are in the middle of war, observing how everything around them is being destroyed – from schools and hospitals to their homes.
“My name is Sasha, I am looking for my mom. We were separated in a filtration camp… Russians told me my mom doesn’t care about me any longer," he shares. Sasha’s story is just one story out of 16 thousand.
