Mission to Ukraine targets children with physical disabilities or chronic side effects due to their diagnosis. Clients undergo daily PT interventions for up to three consecutive weeks. We tailor treatment and care to specific needs with personalized PT plans. Currently, these plans utilize everything from exercise bikes to massage and balance training to stretching.

Occupational Therapy (OT) actively helps clients with disorders develop, recover, or maintain daily living and work skills. At MTU, our OT (the only OTR in Ukraine) and her team focus on goal-based plans for each client.

Once goals are set, therapists or assistants actively work with clients and families during treatment. Additionally, we provide custom-made adaptive equipment and splints, enhancing clients’ lives since 2013. Our depth of care actively improves clients’ quality of life.

MTU operates two sensory therapy rooms—one at the headquarters in Zhytomyr and another at an off-site orphanage for boys with disabilities. 

Therapists, clients, and caregivers actively collaborate, using sensory interventions like flashing lights, swings, hammocks, ball pits, music, and textures.

Moreover, sensory therapy actively changes how neurological systems process and integrate information from our body and environment. Ultimately, this contributes to emotional regulation, learning, behavior, and participation in daily life.

At Mission to Ukraine, AAC therapists empower children who have never been able to communicate by providing them with a voice. The therapists, along with clients and their caregivers, engage in weeks of sessions, utilizing cutting-edge (and sometimes low-tech) adaptive equipment and putting in hard work. Together, they strive towards the goal of achieving communication and fostering overall satisfying relationships and engagement in life activities.

Mission to Ukraine’s Preschool Program stands as one of the few initiatives for young children with disabilities in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. Meaningful lessons and purposeful play actively engage preschool-aged children to develop social, academic, motor, and language skills. Consequently, parents observe significant progress in their children’s capabilities, witnessing increased activity, improved responsiveness, enhanced enthusiasm in interactions, and a growing desire to learn—all contributing to an enriched home life.

The School Readiness Program actively develops competencies essential for a student’s integration and success in the state education system. In addition to strengthening social abilities and individual behavioral development, our program actively teaches key life skills, including concentration, creativity, listening, intrinsic motivation, fine motor development, language, and speech.

In our 25-plus years of ministering to families with children with disabilities, we have actively influenced churches and society on their behalf. A significant shift in attitude is taking place. Our children and their families are now visible in local churches, participating in city events, and being recognized as citizens. Parents are increasing their engagement in independent projects that serve their children and participating in social groups, significantly reducing their isolation.

Mission to Ukraine’s medical clinic actively offers extensive and professional health care services to families in our Disability Services program. We collaborate with a wide range of volunteer doctors, including general practitioners, pediatricians, dentists, ophthalmologists, neurologists, orthopedists, and physiotherapists—all holding respected positions in Zhytomyr state clinics. Our provision of free, quality medical care and medicines allows us to add an extra layer of assistance to our families.