What Is Your Name? exhibition dedicated to the families of internally displaced people in Ukraine and their integration into society as an element of peacemaking, has been launched in Mystetsky Arsenal in December, 2016. It is the part of bigger informational campaign You Are Among Friends. Let’s Be Together by UNICEF.
More than a million of people left their houses in the East of the country and moved to the other cities of Ukraine: to Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv. Some have stayed in Luhansk and Donetsk regions, though still relocated. They have left everything they had and brought only the most needed.
The most vulnerable group in this crisis is children. Children cannot decide whether to stay or leave; they are dependant on the decisions of their parents. The UNICEF backed research states that more than 580 000 children have suffered the aftermath of the conflict in the East of Ukraine in December 2016, while by the end of February 2017 the number was even more terrifying stating more than a 1 million. This data also states that more than 230 000 relocated children are brought up in struggling economic and social conditions and are in the need of psychological support (data updated in February, 2017). They will grow up and build their own life, but what memories will they have of their childhood? Our main aim is to see and to hear each and every one of that children.
