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Hopeful Future

The hardest journeys to the new beginnings

What is Hopeful Future programme?

Thousands of Ukrainian combat veterans are coming home from the front – wounded, lost, carrying what cannot be explained to those who weren’t there.

We train together, we fight together, but we’re left to heal alone.

We help veterans on their hardest journey: from hopelessness to a hopeful future.

Warriors intuitively know that there is a burden that cannot be carried alone.

We do it through peer-led recovery groups, created by veterans for veterans, helping those who won’t ask for help.

What we do

Recovery groups for veterans

Ukrainian combat veterans coming home carry wounds that can’t be seen. They don’t. ask for help, and almost no one reaches in. We do.

Learn about veteran recovery →

Training veteran group facilitators

Some veterans go further. Trained to lead groups themselves, they become the ones who reach in — for others like them.

Learn about facilitator training →

When I came back, I didn’t talk to anyone for three months. Like my body was here, but my soul was not. Here, for the first time, I opened up. I realised that I’m not alone, I have something to live for.

Yaroslav, a Ukrainian veteran

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What does it look like in practice

groups delivered

veterans supported

towns across Ukraine

partners

1.8 million veterans returning to civil society

Invisible Wounds

Moral injury, survivor’s guilt, loss of direction and meaning

Broken connections

Alienation from family, society, and self. Veterans struggling in silence, unseen.

Systemic risk

Unprocessed trauma leads to burnout, addiction, broken families and social instability.

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People helping people takes many forms. Yours can too.

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People Helping People

Hopeful Future programme is delivered by Eden Aid
Eden Aid is a registered charity in England and Wales. Registered Charity No. 1206205

supported by Freemynd