How your support saves young lives
Every Child Deserves a Future campaign—running until June 23rd—exists to change the lives of Ukrainian children and adolescents abducted by Russia. With your support and through strategic partnerships, we are funding rescue missions, providing medical and psychological care, and rehabilitation to teens like Denys.
At 16, Denys was living in Kherson, managing type 1 diabetes and being highly insulin-dependent, when Russian soldiers took him and his classmates to a so-called “recreational camp” in Crimea. There, his life-sustaining insulin needs were ignored. He was hospitalized for weeks in critical condition, then moved again—alone, afraid, and far from his family.
Desperate, Denys courageously reached out to our partner, Save Ukraine, through their website. Thanks to donor-funded rescue efforts facilitated through the robust lifesaving network beyond enemy lines, Denys was identified, located, and brought to safety and hospitalized immediately. Today, Denys lives at the Center for Hope and Recovery, receiving the care, stability, and support every child deserves.
Since 2022, an estimated 19,000 Ukrainian children have been forcefully abducted by Russia. Many more live under occupation, separated from their families. Thanks to our partnership with Save Ukraine, founded by Mykola Kuleba, former Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights in Ukraine, as well as the Temerty Foundation’s generosity, we’ve funded rescue missions to bring 12 children home from Russian captivity.
Since 2014, Save Ukraine has rescued families from frontline areas, and since 2022, has led daring missions to retrieve children from occupied territories and Russia itself. Their work turns impossible situations into powerful stories of reunion and recovery.
Denys survived because someone like you cared enough to act.
Now, others like him need the same chance.
Help us bring more children home. Donate to Every Child Deserves a Future before June 23rd. Because behind every number is a child—with dreams, potential, and the right to live free and safe.
We’re moving!
As of May 30, our new address will be:
Canada-Ukraine Foundation
30 Powerhouse St., Suite 101
Toronto, Ontario M6H 0C6
Background
Canada-Ukraine Foundation (CUF) – founded in 1995, CUF has a strong track record of providing humanitarian assistance to Ukraine in the areas of healthcare, education and civil society. CUF collaborates with aid providers in Ukraine, Canada, and beyond to maximize impact and cost-effectiveness of your support.