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Here’s a look at our recent trip to Kyiv in June 2024: Together with the children and teenagers, we held creative workshops where we made large cushions and seating snakes for our UNHIDE Hub. The renovation of the UNHIDE Hub is also progressing rapidly, and our future team is undergoing intensive training to manage this place of hope and creativity.

Your support motivates us. Together, we are creating positive change, bringing creativity and hope to the children!

Why is this so important? When children play and immerse themselves in imaginary worlds, crucial neural connections form in their brains that significantly support their development. Play is not just a pastime for children; it's an essential part of their growth and learning.
In March 2024, we once again embarked on a workshop trip to Kyiv. In the midst of a challenging environment, where the UNHIDE Hub will soon be opened, we worked with the children to create large light snakes. These glowing artworks not only bring color but also hope to a place surrounded by darkness and uncertainty.

"If everything around you seems dark, look again. You may be the light."

With our partner ARTHELPS, we conducted a workshop with children and teenagers in Bucha at the end of September. On that day, they were able to discover their talents. In Ukraine, we will create places with UNHIDE, SAFE SPACES where children and young people can find peace, discover themselves, and their talents.

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UNHIDE is intended to disarm. The children should be given a break in the workshops. In our UNHIDE workshops you are in a room with other children creating something new with your own creativity. It's a hard time and so important to create positive things so you don't give up hope. Our job is to help them live those dreams and keep that hope alive. Children's laughter must not be lost.

God Bless
Rea

Since July 2022, daily special creative workshops have been held for refugee Ukrainian children and teenagers at our UNHIDE HOME in Stuttgart. In 2022, a total of 127 workshops were conducted, reaching over 1,000 Ukrainian children and teenagers. In these imaginative workshops, the children and teenagers were given a platform and inspiration to discover and unleash their artistic potential. They had the freedom, far from violence, fear, and hopelessness, to simply be children, to dream, and to laugh.

Thanks to countless volunteers and a great willingness to donate, we have been able to evacuate more than 70,000 people in recent weeks with UNHIDE Ukraine and deliver more than 900 tons of relief supplies to over 80 locations: food, clothing and medicine.
Thanks to our contacts and our network, the supplies are getting to where they are needed.
We would like to thank you, our partners, especially ArtHelps!

Please don't let us get tired and keep going!
We will continue to collect donations, transport relief supplies and buy supplies locally. We continue to evacuate people and this is only possible with your valuable help!

It was a great honour to receive this prize from the Deutscher Nachhaltigkeitspreis and even a greater honour to receive it from my brother Sasha!
Our sucess is the work of so many each one knowing what his role is and then just doing it! I believe everything is possible in the strength and resolve of the human race. We started off as the few now we are the many!

God Bless
Rea

Fotocredit: Ralf Rühmeier

On January 28, 2017, in Frankfurt, the Senckenberg Prize for exceptional personal commitment to the protection of our environment was awarded for the third time. The 2016 Nature Engagement Award went to Rea Garvey for the ClearWater project in the Amazon region, and it carries a prize of €10,000.