ISSA Member Step by Step Moldova reflects on the changing needs of Ukrainian refugee children and complex challenges of implementing a psychosocial support initiative.

In July 2023, ISSA Member, the Trust for Social Achievement held a Peer Learning Activity on "Role models in early childhood" in Lukovit, Bulgaria.

Through the SPYNKA program, ISSA Member, Comenius Foundation for Child Development is supporting refugee children and caregivers from Ukraine with high quality, trauma informed early childhood education and care.

In the Foundation they are very proud with the marginalized Roma communities that became active and strong with their support.

CEF “School for All” hopes to collaborate and build partnerships, share the information, promote good practices, design and apply joint proposals to the international organizations.

Discussing the needs of children entering Hungary from Ukraine, importance of safe spaces, and the opportunity for alliances at the municipality level to tackle exclusion. 

A new ISSA Member “Open Hearts” empowers children with disabilities to improve the quality of their lives by promoting their social, educational, and economic inclusion.

In 2022, the ISSA Secretariat and Members distributed 195,000 copies of books in Ukrainian to children in Ukraine, Poland, and Romania.

In Bulgaria, ISSA Member For Our Children Foundation coordinated the training of 103 early years professionals in psychological first aid.

Recently, six ISSA Members joined a Primokiz training in Romania. The Step by Step Center for Quality in Education shares the network benefit of this workshop.