For many Ukrainian children, war is not news — it is their everyday life. Some were injured by mines and shelling. Some are waiting for a parent who is in captivity or missing. Some were returned from deportation. Some have lost a parent forever.

The psychologists of Voices of Children work with these children every day — in regional centers, in mobile teams, in camps, and online — helping them find their footing again.

This winter, Voices of Children is preparing Christmas gifts for 1,150 children in its care. 455 gifts are already sponsored — 695 children are still waiting for their Santa. Lion's Heart Foundation is joining in, and inviting you to join us.

What's inside each gift

Each gift bag holds warmth and care a child can use all year: an insulated mug, a favorite stress-relief toy, hot cocoa with marshmallows, an emotional well-being guide, a sticker pack — and a bracelet with the number of Voices of Children's free psychological support helpline, so every child knows where to turn when things get hard.

Who receives the gifts

Children from internally displaced families
Children who have lost one or both parents
Children of Ukrainian defenders, prisoners of war, and those missing in action
Children with disabilities
Children living in frontline or de-occupied communities

Where the gifts go

Voices of Children teams deliver the gifts in person across 12 regions of Ukraine — Truskavets, Lviv, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kropyvnytskyi, Kryvyi Rih, Dnipro, Mykolaiv, Poltava, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhia — including remote communities reached by their mobile teams.

The full picture

One complete gift costs UAH 1,300 — about $31. The whole program is 1,150 gifts: UAH 1.5 million (about $33,000). Every $31 you give sponsors one full gift for one child — the mug, the toy, the cocoa, the guide, the stickers, and the bracelet that connects a child to a psychologist whenever they need one.

How it works

You sponsor a Christmas gift (or any amount) on this page.
Lion's Heart Foundation adds its own contribution and grants the collected funds to Voices of Children.
Their team buys and personally delivers the gifts to the children.
After the holidays, we publish a full report — photos and stories — for every donor.

You will see where your gift went

As a partner in this program, Voices of Children provides a narrative report with photos, videos, and feedback from the children, the number of children supported and the regions reached, and a transparent financial report. We will publish all of it on this page.

No amount is too small: a gift is a message to a child that somewhere across the ocean, a stranger remembers them.

Lion's Heart Foundation Inc (EIN 93-4930442) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization; donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. All funds raised by this campaign will be granted to the Voices of Children Charitable Foundation (Ukraine) for its Christmas Gifts 2026 program. A public report on the delivery of the gifts will be published on this page after the holidays.

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Be a Santa for a Child in Ukraine — Christmas Gifts 2026

This Christmas, become a Santa for a child whose life was turned upside down by war. Every gift is delivered by the psychologists of Voices of Children to the children in their care.