Your donation supports the investigation and safe return
of Ukrainian children illegally abducted by Russia.
Every contribution brings us one step closer to reuniting families.
Every donation brings abducted children one step closer to their loved ones.
Help us help them and give them the chance of a bright and peaceful future.
With the full-scale war in Ukraine, many children have been illegally abducted by Russia. With close to 20,000 Ukrainian children confirmed by the authorities, and as many as 200,000 who cannot be verified, the urgency to secure their safe return cannot be overstated.
These children have all been through a terrible experience, some being moved to orphanages while others have been adopted by Russian families. It has also been confirmed that some are being detained in children prisons. The emotional and psychological impact on these children and their families is greater than anyone could imagine.
“I will forever be thankful for Emile Foundation to reunite me with my aunt after 1.5 year of deportation and witnessing the death of my mother and brother. They have found a safe place for us, found school and supported me with all I need to finally feel safe and live a near-normal life.”
Maksym, Mariupol
“The child is the victim of a war crime, and the investigator’s task is to find out about it as carefully as possible,
without traumatising the child further, so that the information can then be passed on to a Ukrainian court or the International Criminal Court.”
Olena Zelenska, First Lady of Ukraine
50 Ukrainian children have been returned home. In June 2026 our investigators traced 46 of the 84 children taken from the Oleshky boarding school.
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Last week in Washington, Emile Foundation presented FOUND. NOT HOME. — our first independent humanitarian investigation report — alongside testimony from the mothers and a grandmother still searching for the children and grandchild taken from them.
Most organizations working on Ukraine’s abducted children stop once a child has been traced, located, and identified. That moment is treated as the finish line. At the Emile Foundation, it is treated as the halfway point.
Emile Foundation CEO Mariam Lambert recently took the stage at TEDx New Delhi to speak about one of the gravest human rights violations of Russia’s war in Ukraine: the forced deportation of Ukrainian children.
This week, the Emile Foundation opened a new chapter with the opening of our permanent office in Kyiv.
