Official Launch of the Project “Resilience Center”

At the end of September 2025, a four-member team from nehemia team e.V. in Fürth travelled to Uzhgorod. The focus of the trip was the official launch of the four-year ‘Resilience Centre’ project. Resilience – mental fortitude – is essential for survival, especially in...

Victims Turned Winners

In August 2024, Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska visited the centre in Uzhgorod to learn about trauma-informed education work with children, young people and women. Olena Zelenska describes the Nehemia Centre as a kind of resilience centre for the Transcarpathia...

A Summer Full of Light

In the summer of 2025, nestled among the green hills and quiet forests of Uzhhorod, a girl named Zhenya—Yevehniya—found something she hadn’t felt in a long time: Joy. Zhenya was eight, from the Zaporizhzhya region in eastern Ukraine. Her family had fled west in 2022,...

Providing a Home for Traumatised Children

Many children in Ukraine suffer from severe developmental disorders, which are often due to a lack of or inadequate care in orphanages and the consequences of the current war.   For 25 years, we have been working tirelessly with the team in Uzhgorod to offer...

Oasis of hope

The educational center in Uzhgorod/Ukraine is a bustling place. Over the past year hundreds of people have found comfort and rest here. Children’s laughter fills the air. Early May Elke Feld (project manager) traveled to Uzghorod accompanied by Claudia Köhler...