About Project
Each of them contains dozens of pages for creative activities that can be started in any order. There are 24 activities in total. We made it free so that every child, no matter where they are, can take part — all the materials are openly available on the project’s website. Each page is a new activity with teaching guidelines that act as a roadmap for educators, as well as short inspirational videos from the project’s creative director Mariia Proshkovska.
We created this project together with artists, psychologists and educators as a tool that doesn’t give ready-made answers, but instead opens space for children to find their own ones. Here, the result is not what matters most — the process is. It is a space where a child can feel, think, remember, and simply be themselves.
The project started with a presentation at St. Mary’s Ukrainian School in London, United Kingdom, and today it is already used in different countries — from Cambridge, United Kingdom, to Vienna, Austria — gradually expanding its reach.
“Freedom Diaries” is part of the “Education for Life” program, implemented by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine together with UNESCO and EdEra, and it also partners with the International Ukrainian School.
This is not about quick results, but about a long journey of building inner foundations: identity, a connection to Ukraine and a sense of freedom that stays with a child for years.
The strategy of “Freedom Diaries” is not about immediate impact, but about the long term — planting cultural “anchors” that will continue to work even decades later.
