Freedom Diaries has been integrated into the national “Education for Life” program

The Freedom Diaries project has become part of the national initiative Education for Life — a comprehensive policy designed to strengthen the New Ukrainian School (NUS) reform and create a more coherent, meaningful learning experience for children.

As part of this collaboration, the project’s creative director, Mariia Proshkovska, together with the team, selected seven Freedom Diaries lessons and adapted them to fit the concept of the arts education field.

From now on, these lessons are integrated into the fourth-quarter art curriculum around the theme of citizenship. Through creative practices, students explore important social and personal themes — freedom, identity, memory, connection, and their own place in society.

This integration into the national curriculum reinforces the core idea behind Freedom Diaries: using art to help children not only process their own experiences, but also grow into an understanding of themselves as part of the Ukrainian civic community.