We work in liberated, frontline, and border regions. Since the foundation’s launch in 2022, our goal has remained the same: to restore life in affected communities through learning spaces and educational programmes. Our approach is comprehensive — we combine educational and infrastructure solutions with psychosocial support for students and teachers. This not only encourages children to return to offline activities but also brings real value back to towns and villages: spaces that unite people and help communities come alive again.
Despite the war, children must have the opportunity to learn, grow, and stay connected with friends in their home communities. Together with our partners, we make this possible.
Spaces where children can learn and meet offline — even if their school is destroyed, damaged, or unable to operate due to proximity to the frontline.
We set up centres in schools and other surviving buildings, often in shelters, so children can meet in person, attend extracurricular activities, use modern equipment and high-speed internet to join classes in their distance-learning school or complete homework.
Safe, comfortable, multi-purpose educational spaces located within schools, where learning continues even during air-raid alerts.
We take a comprehensive approach: repairing basements, installing modern ventilation, heating, lighting, waterproofing, and restrooms. After repairs, we furnish the shelters with comfortable furniture, acoustic curtains, equipment, books, and board games.
In communities where schools are heavily damaged or destroyed, we find surviving buildings and convert them into learning spaces.
Temporary schools can operate, for example, in cultural centres or even family medicine clinics.
Another type of temporary facility is modular schools — compact, reliable, and comfortable spaces designed for rapid deployment.
UActive is an educational program by the savED Foundation for teenagers from frontline regions who are committed to rebuilding Ukraine.
With support and mentorship, young people gain the instruments to create useful solutions for the development of their hometowns, mobilize resources, and unite local communities.
The program gives students the chance to design and implement real, socially meaningful projects for their communities — helping them become leaders of change today. We show that post-war recovery is not only the work of adults; teenagers can meaningfully contribute too. Our role is to create the right conditions, support them, and motivate them to invest in their communities’ future.
A tool developed by savED and partners to help students overcome learning losses.
It offers complete courses in mathematics, Ukrainian and English, Ukrainian history, civic education, and primary school subjects.
This comprehensive approach helps students fill knowledge gaps while ensuring continuity of learning in frontline regions — a long-term effect that strengthens community resilience.
Ukraine’s first experimental psychosocial support program designed specifically for educators.
We involved leading Ukrainian psychologists and trauma-focused therapists to support teachers, tutors, and school leaders working on our project sites — ensuring they have the emotional resources to continue supporting children.
Within 24 hours of announcing the training, we received over 300 applications — a powerful signal of the urgent need for professional and emotional support within the teaching community.
savED conducts analytical research in the field of education and openly shares the results.
These data help education officials, local authorities, civil society, Ukrainian businesses, and international partners find solutions to restore life in frontline communities through education and on-the-ground collaboration.
The foundation’s flagship research product is the annual study “War and Education”.
