- July 3, 2026
- 10:34 pm
- Ukraine
In Ukraine, a project is being expanded that connects medicine, education, and psychological support for children undergoing treatment in hospitals. Its foundation is the Israeli model of educational centers in children’s medical institutions, which has been operating in Israel for many years and now helps Ukrainian children maintain a connection with normal life even during the war.
On July 2, 2026, the Embassy of Israel in Ukraine reported this.
The embassy’s publication states that even in wartime conditions, every child has the right not only to treatment but also to education, development, and the feeling of a normal childhood. It is with this goal that the Israeli organization Sasa Setton, with the support of the Center for Jewish Impact, is implementing the model of education in children’s hospitals in Ukraine.
This is not a one-time humanitarian action or just assistance with equipment. It is about transferring Israeli experience to Ukraine, which helps children undergoing treatment not to fall out of the educational process, receive emotional support, and remain in an environment where there is room not only for procedures, anxiety, and waiting but also for activities, creativity, communication, and development.
What the Israeli model represents
The Israeli model of education in children’s hospitals is built around a simple but very important idea: a hospital should not become a place of complete isolation from normal life for a child. If treatment lasts for weeks or months, the child loses not only health and strength. They may lose the school rhythm, contact with peers, a sense of the future, and confidence that their life continues.
An educational center inside the hospital helps close this gap.
In such spaces, children can learn, engage in creativity, receive support from teachers and specialists, and feel that their development is not halted by illness. For Ukraine, where the war has increased the burden on families, hospitals, schools, and the psychological support system, this approach is of particular importance.
The publication of the Embassy of Israel in Ukraine emphasizes that the model has been successfully operating in Israel for more than 15 years. Now this experience becomes part of the support for Ukrainian children undergoing treatment in the conditions of a full-scale war.
The first educational center was opened in Odessa in 2023. According to the embassy, today it helps children undergoing treatment to learn, develop, and receive psychological support in a comfortable environment every day.
This experience became the basis for expanding the project.
Odessa, Chernivtsi, Bila Tserkva: the project goes beyond one city
After the launch of the first center in Odessa, it became clear that such a model could be in demand in other regions of Ukraine. The Embassy of Israel in Ukraine reported that new centers are being created in Chernivtsi and Bila Tserkva. The possibility of opening three more centers in other regions of the country is also being considered.
This is an important stage because the project ceases to be a local initiative and gradually turns into a network. For Ukrainian hospitals, this means not only the appearance of modern educational spaces but also access to methodology, experience, and professional support that have already been tested in Israel.
The project provides for the training of Ukrainian specialists, the transfer of Israeli experience, and long-term partnership between Ukrainian and Israeli hospitals.
This part is especially important. When a country receives not only help “here and now” but also a working model that can be further developed, the effect becomes much deeper. Ukraine receives not just a room with books or equipment, but an approach to the child as a person who needs treatment, education, emotional resilience, and a sense of the future.
For NANews — Israel News | Nikk.Agency this story is also important because it shows another level of Israeli-Ukrainian cooperation. Not only diplomacy, not only statements, not only emergency humanitarian aid, but practical experience that can be applied in the daily lives of Ukrainian children and their families.
Why this is important for Israel and Ukraine
The Embassy of Israel in Ukraine directly notes: for Israel, this project is more than a humanitarian initiative. It is an expression of solidarity with Ukraine and an investment in the future of children who, even in the most difficult circumstances, must retain the opportunity to learn, dream, and build their future.
This wording is important.
In wartime conditions, helping children is not only a matter of compassion. It is a matter of the country’s resilience. A child who is in the hospital for months should not feel that their life is on pause. Especially in Ukraine, where children already live under constant pressure from anxiety, shelling, relocations, losses, separation from relatives, and disrupted school rhythm.
Israel understands well what it means to build support systems under constant threat. In this sense, the transfer of experience in the field of hospital education seems not accidental but very logical. Israeli practice has grown in a country where security, medicine, education, and psychological resilience have long been interconnected.
For Ukraine, such experience can become part of a broader recovery system. It is not just about walls, classrooms, or equipment, but about understanding: children undergoing treatment remain students, individuals, dreamers, future adults. They cannot be left alone with illness and war.
The Sasa Setton project, with the support of the Center for Jewish Impact, shows how humanitarian aid can be smart and long-term. It is not limited to a symbolic gesture but creates infrastructure, trains specialists, and strengthens ties between the medical institutions of the two countries.
For the Israeli audience, this story is also important. It shows that supporting Ukraine can be not only a political or military topic, around which disputes often arise. There are areas where the meaning of help is obvious: children, hospitals, education, psychological support, preserving normal childhood where war tries to destroy it.
It is such projects that create trust between societies. They show that Israel can share with Ukraine not only technologies and crisis response experience but also human models of assistance — those that work at the level of a specific child and a specific family.
In this story, there are no loud slogans. There is a child in the hospital who needs not only to recover but also to continue living. There are Ukrainian specialists who are being passed on experience. There is an Israeli organization that turns knowledge into practical support. There is an embassy that calls this project an expression of solidarity.
And there is a very simple conclusion: even during the war, childhood should not disappear from the hospital ward.