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Published 18:06 29 Oct 2018 GMT
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Credit: Jordi Matas[/caption]
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As we wandered around the school I noticed a large educational poster that taught young kids not to pick up anything shiny or metallic. I was also taken down into the school bomb shelter, not part of most normal school tours.
After the tour I sat in front of the remains of the primary school and chatted to a couple of students. I met Masha, a fifteen-year-old girl who had to walk two and a half kilometres to and from school every day. She had to cross the line of conflict to do so.
A bridge she used to use had been destroyed and she now crossed on a rickety temporary structure. Soldiers made her show her papers every day and repeatedly made her explain why she was crossing the line.
I met Roman, a fifteen-year-old boy who had stepped on a mine that blew up his leg and damaged his hearing. He was shy and found it difficult to make eye contact. The idea that this poor kid had gone through so much, so early in his life was heart breaking.
Both of them were being helped by Save the Children, providing psychosocial support to help them deal with the impact this conflict had had on their lives.
Credit: Jordi Matas[/caption]
Coming away from the trip, on the long drive back to Kharkiv, I was left with a phenomenal respect for the importance of the work that Save the Children are doing in the Ukraine. This conflict had been going on for five years with over 600,000 kids in need of humanitarian assistance.
This is a forgotten war in the heart of Europe, affecting over 4.4 million people, that we hear very little about. It’s a complex conflict with no immediate signs of any resolution. What Save the Children are doing out there is directly helping to make the lives of kids affected by the situation a little better.

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