Mobile teams of the National Center for Child Abuse Prevention offer Ukrainian children by a soft toy created especially for them, which they called Trimka. The children also receive a coloring book entitled “Smile with Trimka!”. The mobile teams created by the Center are named PIDRIMKA, which means ‘support’ in Ukrainian, IPN reports.

In a press release, the Center says Trimka is a character who wants to reach all the children in refugee centers in Moldova so as to stand by them and replace the toys they left at home when feeling from war with their parents. The first three teams offered psychological and social assistance to grownups and children at refugee centers.

The play with Trimka was added to the interactive activities staged by the psychologists of the team. The Trimka set that consists of the soft toy and the coloring book was designed based on the recommendations of psychologies and is designed to create a danger-free world without war horrors for children. 

Trimka is the first toy of the kind made by a national toy factory. It is a therapeutic toy for children of an early age made from ecological material. It also delivers a social message of support and solidarity with the people of Ukraine.

“By this set, we offer the children emotional support and show an attitude of care and respect to them. The toy is also a therapeutic instrument whose role is to temper the child’s feelings and this can become a symbolic friend that can offer support in this difficult situation of forced migration,” said Daniela Sâmboteanu, president of the National Center for Child Abuse Prevention.

The mobile psychological and social assistance service in humanitarian crisis situations PIDTRIMKA was created by the Center with financial support from the partners, “Plan International” and “War Child Holland”.

The National Center for Child Abuse Prevention is now designing and adjusting content and materials intended for adolescents who spend long days in refugee centers so as to offer them emotional support and to encourage them with messages concerning personal safety in conditions of migration.