«The Room of Happiness » is a project supporting children who are temporarily without parental care and are in hospital.
This project was created to provide psychological and emotional support to children, who have been removed from their families due to abuse, domestic violence or threats to their lives. These children are often found on the streets. Until the court decides their fate – whether they will return to their biological parents, be placed in a foster family, or be sent to an institutional care facility – they remain in hospitals (in accordance with current legislation). However, medical facilities do not have staff responsible for the psychological and emotional well-being of such children.
On average, a child spends between two weeks and three months in hospital, sometimes longer. During this time, they remain in a hospital ward around the clock, without the company of loved ones or specialist support to help them cope with their traumatic experience. During full-scale war and constant anxiety and shelling, children’s stress levels increase. We are setting up special play areas in medical facilities – “Room of Happiness” – where children can feel safe.
However, the main value of the project lies not only in the space itself, but in the daily presence of specially trained employees and volunteers from the foundation, who conduct individual and group sessions with the children. These sessions are aimed at stabilising the children’s emotional state, reducing anxiety, developing communication and creative skills, and gradually restoring basic trust in adults. Thanks to this, the children are not left alone with their pain, but are able to cope with stressful experiences and avoid deep psychological trauma.
The Room of Happiness is an intervention project that works with highly vulnerable children to minimise the effects of traumatic experiences and lay the foundations for their further development and social adaptation.
Development of the project into a full-scale war: 2021
Two “Rooms of Happiness” for children of all ages have been opened at Municipal Clinical Hospital No. 9 of the Dnipro City Council.
The design project was also developed on a pro bono basis by the architectural firm DRUID PROJECT BUREAU and design engineer Dmytro Yashchenko. The contractor was selected via the Prozorro electronic platform.
539357
UAH invested in the project
For the period December 2021 – February 2022
159
children covered
15
classes conducted
30
volunteers involved
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