At the Doktor Dog center in Zaporizhia, children try to forget the war

At the Doktor Dog center in Zaporizhia, southern Ukraine, children dance, sing and play with Evsei, the centre’s little spaniel. Internal refugees from the war, they take advantage of the activities offered by the center to forget the abuses they witnessed during the war in Ukraine.

“They are anxious”, explains volunteer Olha Pivtoraska. In a gingerbread man costume, she makes the children dance to the rhythm of nursery rhymes to make them smile. Aliona Serdiouk, child psychologist and director of the center, specifies that individual support is offered to those who need it.