The Dentons Europe Foundation has teamed up with Small Heart with Art, a non-governmental organization in Ukraine, to build a school in the Lviv Children's City Hospital as part of the NGO’s Superheroes School project. The first classroom for the youngest students opened in March 2023, and repairs are currently ongoing in the second room to create a classroom-library, which will launch in mid-May 2023. 

The Dentons Europe Foundation, the registered charitable foundation of law firm Dentons, donated over €36,000 to fund the reconstruction and furnishing of the classrooms, as well as the purchase of books and educational materials. The two rooms for the school were former storage rooms, donated by the hospital.

The Superheroes School is a network of centers that provide educational services to children who are in inpatient treatment for more than two weeks to ensure they have uninterrupted access to education. The organization has also been providing psychological rehabilitation to children since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. There are currently nine Superheroes schools operating in different cities across Ukraine, including in the combat zone and other areas affected by the war. 

Dentons’ cooperation with Small Heart with Art dates back to 2020, when it provided pro bono legal advice to the NGO. After the Russian military invasion of Ukraine, the Dentons Europe Foundation provided financial support for Small Heart with Art’s “Order of the Phoenix” project to provide psychological support to young patients traumatized by the war. As part of the project, 13 therapists were recruited for the Ohmatdyt National Children’s Hospital, and they conducted 669 child counselling sessions in May and June 2022. 

So far, the Dentons Europe Foundation has raised more than €500,000 in donations from its offices and people around the world.

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