Ptashenya Kindergarten co-founder Solomiya Boikovych beams with delight as she enters each room of her new nursery. In 2022, Nursery World met Solomiya at another of her settings in Lviv, Eastern Ukraine just months after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of her country. Then, staff were adapting to a sudden new reality. Today, as Ukraine enters its fourth year of war, leading toddlers to bomb shelters when air raid sirens wail has become a way of life.
But Solomiya has not let the war-time challenges deter her ambitions for delivering high-quality early education. She describes how she set about opening the group's first purpose-built setting: ‘We have built the nursery of our dreams, even during the war.’
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