Brighten up the lives of Ukrainian refugee children
An interactive book set with comforting stories that reconnects families from Ukraine
An interactive book set with comforting stories that reconnects families from Ukraine
Non-profit project under patronage of:
Laurentien van Oranje
Olena Zelenska
Elke Büdenbender
Doris Schmidauer
That’s a quarter of the child population in Ukraine.
Almost 1 million Ukrainian refugees are now in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Austria.
Better Times Stories is a volunteer based effort to directly connect donors and refugee children
Books were left behind with only a few things to carry while fleeing the war in Ukraine. No reading time for months, and counting.
A new language environment causes children to fall behind in development, combined with social distress.
Fathers and many other relatives are staying behind in Ukraine with the possibility that they will never see or hear from them again.
Carefully selected stories from the Top 5 bestselling illustrators and authors that help children cope with their situations. Bringing a piece of home to the children.
Bilingual books with professionally narrated audiobooks in both languages helping kids with early reading and new language.
Helping children to deal with separation. Fathers and other relatives narrate the books that could be read along anytime and as many times as kids wish.
€60 package as €15 donation gift
For kids
aged 3 to 7
Shipping now:
NL and DE
A specially designed package for kids aged 3 to 7 in this particular situation. Five bilingual interactive picture books unite them with fathers and help them to adapt to their new language environment.
Contents:
- 5x bilingual picture books
- 10x professionally narrated audiobooks (1.5 hours)
- up to 25x family narrations (remotely recorded stories by family members staying behind in Ukraine)
- DIY crafts box to create your own talking character.
Donating? Once donated, your gifts will be automatically matched and delivered to the family that requested a package. You will be notified once the package(s) are delivered.
Requesting? As Ukrainian refugee family with temporary residence in the Netherlands, Flanders (Belgium), Germany or Austria you can request a free package. Once requested, we will do our best to match you with a donor and ship the package.
Helping children to cope with separation. Each book is remotely recordable by family members staying behind in Ukraine.
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Simple as sending a text.
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Open your personal link and start reading the story.
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Connecting children with separated fathers and other relatives for a storytime
Each book could be narrated by up to 5 family members.
Reading is essential for children’s language development. Our bilingual picture books include both text and audio narration in two languages.
Kids can immediately tap and play audiobooks with music and sound effects in both languages. They can read along while they learn the words of the new language. These are the people helping out the children who need it:
First of all, you will receive a donation confirmation by email.
The package then will be gifted to Ukrainian refugee family with children ages 3 to 7.
Packages are for Ukrainian refugee families with children ages 3 to 7 who temporarily reside in the Netherlands, Flanders (Belgium), Germany, and Austria. One package per family. It’s a personal package and not created for shared use. Each book is unique and stores the intimate narration of one of the family members. So the child can hear the story with the voices of loved ones when they are apart.
Submit your order request by clicking the button ‘Gift”
Would your company like to make a donation or sponsor a number of families? You can do it directly via check-out or please fill out this short form and we will get in touch with you shortly.
We created two editions of the packages Dutch/Ukrainian and German/Ukrainian. They are shipped to counties where it’s the main language.
Dutch/Ukrainian intended for Netherlands and Flanders (Belgium), while German/Ukrainian for Germany and Austria.
We deliver packages based on the demand from individual families and organizations requesting.
Packages are delivered through our fulfillment partners (PostNL or DHL). Either directly to the home address or bulk shipments to requested locations by organizations. Would you like to order a batch shipped to a location with dozens of families - please fill out this form.
Please submit the form by clicking “Gift” button.
Please click the button “gift” and submit the form.
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