First Lady Olena Zelenska addressed the visitors of the Ukrainian exhibition “Children Drawing Hope” in the Republic of Korea. The exhibition features more than 250 works from four Ukrainian children's art projects: Art Armor Kids; Mom, I see war; For God I create the best; Future for Ukraine.
“The conditions in which many of these works were created are dramatic. Some were painted in a bomb shelter by flashlight. Some — while waiting for dad or mom, who defend our country. Some — in the hospital after being wounded. Some of the little authors survived the occupation, and the evacuation, some of them lost their homes and loved ones. And all of them have definitely lost their normal childhood lives since we were attacked. But the main emotion that you will surely feel when you look at the works is not fear, but hope,” the First Lady said.
She thanked the President, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Korea, the Cheong Wa Dae Foundation, and the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine for providing Ukrainian children with the opportunity to show their vision of the resistance that our country is putting up.
“I really want these children's hopes to come true. I want us, the adults of the planet, to fulfill their hopes for a just peace and return their safe childhood to them. Because all the children of the world have only one childhood, and it should be happy,” the President's wife said.
The idea of the exhibition emerged during a meeting of the First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska and the First Lady of the Republic of Korea Kim Keon Hee in Kyiv last July.