[Witness spoke in Ukrainian, interpreted as follows:]
If I may, I can begin. As I speak, maybe our children present here will think about whether they would like to add something.
You are absolutely right. Everything depends on the age of a child and how long they spend in occupied territories or in Russia. It depends on particular circumstances, such as how they were deported and how they were transferred. There were cases when the military would dress them up and cases when military Russian personnel would use the threat of weaponry. They would place them in their military vehicles and remove them from Ukrainian territory to Russia, so obviously there could be all kinds of trauma related to that.
Those 200 people we rescued all have different stories. The first thing that every one of them needs, whether it's in Canada or in Ukraine, is safety and permanency. These are the main things that are required by children. That's why we created Hope and Healing Centers: It's so that these children can go through a six-month program of rehabilitation. They live there. They are fed there. We clothe them. They are able to study the Ukrainian curriculum.
There is a psychological person on staff and all kinds of services are present there that would allow these children to rejuvenate their lives, and we are doing all this, as you can understand, during the war that's going on. We are not only bringing them back; we are also rehabilitating them and reintegrating them back into society.
Now I would like to ask our children to maybe share their ideas.