Flower bulbs for Ukrainian Schools

Peter Tonenchuk (Florium) tells about project Flower4Schools

At the end of February, the Russian troops invaded Ukraine and for a while the regular activities stopped. Our company froze but soon enough we came back to work and volunteered in another reality.

As the first shock passed, Ukrainian civilians who bravely defended their land during first months, continued to hold their own fronts in order to keep the economy of the country running. When our children started their new academic year we thought we should do something to support them in this challenging times. That’s how the idea of the Flowers4school project was born.

We turned to our Dutch partners, shared our thoughts, and immediately we got the support we never expected. Company after the company donated bulbs for the project. They were driven by nothing but will to help and to support kids and their kindness deeply touched us.  

Partners of the project

It wasn’t initially our plan but the Flowers4school project with help of 36 companies from The Netherlands became an all-Ukrainian project and shared 5 million bulbs to 10062 schools all over the country, including schools from Kharkiv, Donetsk, Lugansk, Mykolaiv regions and deoccupied Kherson region.

But the most important thing in this story is the thousands of smiling and joyful children involved in the landing process. In the spring, when all these flowers bloom, we expect the next and most important effect of our initiative - emotional healing and aesthetic satisfaction for those who have suffered so much at such a young age.