As Ukrainian children continued learning through another year of war, Teach For Ukraine worked not only to meet today’s urgent needs, but also to help shape the future of education in Ukraine.
Throughout 2025, we supported children in recovering learning loss, empowered teachers, and developed the next generation of education leaders. But this year also marked an important shift in our own journey. We began transforming solutions developed through our work in schools and communities into evidence, partnerships, and national initiatives that can strengthen Ukraine’s education system well beyond the reach of our own programmes.
This report looks back on a year of growth, partnership, and system change. It highlights the progress we’ve made together and the priorities that will guide our work in the year ahead.
- 27,000+ children received academic and psychosocial support.
- 1,800+ educators strengthened their professional skills through training and ongoing mentorship.
- 74 new partner schools joined Teach For Ukraine’s partner school network in 2025, expanding it to 114 schools across 11 regions of Ukraine.
- 5,000+ students learned every day in classrooms led by Teach For Ukraine Fellows, while more than 800 children received targeted tutoring to address learning loss.
- 50 experienced teacher-mentors supported 50 early-career teachers through the signature Teachers for Teachers mentoring programme.
- 878 new mentors joined the StudentMentor programme, expanding the community to 1,360 mentors, including 262 volunteers from abroad.
- 23,000+ children participated in the Education Soup programme, with more than 18,000 learning online and 5,000+ engaging through in-person activities.
- $2.38 million raised to support education in Ukraine.
- 57 team members worked to ensure our programmes reached more children, teachers, and schools.
These results reflect not only the scale of our work but also its impact. Throughout the year, we focused on turning effective educational practices into systemic solutions capable of strengthening Ukraine’s education system. This approach has enabled us to scale evidence-based initiatives that contribute to long-term educational transformation.
This year opened a new chapter for Teach For Ukraine. Alongside supporting children, teachers, and schools, we began translating what we’ve learned through practice into partnerships, evidence, and system-level change.
Teach For Ukraine took on a national leadership role in coordinating education in emergencies during the war as co-chair of the Education in Emergencies Working Group, alongside Ukraine’s Ministry of Education and Science and Save the Children. In this role, we represent civil society in coordinating humanitarian efforts in education and strengthening collaboration across the sector.
Teach For Ukraine’s signature learning recovery programme became the foundation for the world’s first randomized controlled trial on education during wartime, published by the World Bank this year. The findings showed that evidence-based learning recovery can significantly improve academic outcomes in a relatively short time and at low cost. It also illustrates how solutions developed in Ukraine can help inform education policy and practice wherever conflict or crises disrupt children’s learning.
Building on our experience supporting early-career teachers for nearly a decade, we launched a new partnership with Ukraine’s Ministry of Education and Science to scale the Teach For Ukraine Fellowship’s mentoring model as a foundation for strengthening the country’s national teacher induction system. This marks an important step toward addressing one of Ukraine’s most pressing education challenges: attracting and retaining the next generation of teachers.
Throughout the year, Teach For Ukraine emerged as a leading convener around two areas central to our mission: learning recovery and strengthening pathways into the teaching profession. By bringing together government, international partners, researchers, donors, and civil society through creating national forums, leading working groups, and fostering strategic coordination, we helped shape evidence-informed solutions for Ukraine’s education system.
Strengthening our impact also meant strengthening our institution. In 2025, Teach For Ukraine established a new Advisory Board, an important step toward stronger governance, greater strategic oversight, and the organization’s long-term sustainability.
“This year marked an important turning point for Teach for Ukraine. While we continued supporting children, teachers, and schools every day, we also began transforming what we’ve learned through practice into evidence, partnerships, and system-level solutions that can strengthen education across Ukraine.
Education is shaped not only in classrooms, but also through the decisions we make as a society. We cannot choose the circumstances in which Ukraine’s children are growing up today. But we can choose how we respond, and what kind of education system we build for their future.
Every step we took this year brings us closer to our vision of a Ukraine where every child has the opportunity to realize their full potential, regardless of where they are born or live”.
Natalia Etten
Chief Executive Officer, Teach For Ukraine
Teach For Ukraine enters its next chapter with a strong team, strengthened governance, and an unwavering commitment to its mission.
Following her tenure as Chief Executive Officer, Natalia Etten will join Teach For Ukraine’s Advisory Board, where she will continue to support the organization’s long-term strategic direction. During the leadership transition, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Liudmyla Lompas, will serve as Acting CEO while the organization launches an open search for its next Chief Executive Officer.
As Teach for Ukraine enters its next chapter, we remain committed to turning what we learn in classrooms and communities into lasting change for children across Ukraine.
“When we founded Teach For Ukraine nearly ten years ago, we were guided by one simple belief: every child deserves access to quality education, regardless of where they were born or where they live.
Today, that belief has become even more urgent. Ukrainian children continue learning in the midst of war. In 2025 alone, the country experienced more than 19,000 air raid alerts. Since 2022, 4,456 schools have been damaged or destroyed, including more than 340 during the past year.
Behind these numbers are children’s everyday realities: interrupted lessons, forced displacement, prolonged distance learning, learning loss, chronic stress, and an immense need for support.
The war has also intensified challenges that long predated the full-scale invasion: unequal access to quality education, teacher shortages, and the need for stronger educational leadership. That is why our work today is about more than responding to the immediate consequences of war. It is about supporting children and teachers now while building solutions that will strengthen Ukraine’s education system for the long term“.
Liudmyla Lompas
Acting Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder, Teach For Ukraine
Today, Teach For Ukraine is doing more than delivering high-quality educational programmes for tens of thousands of young learners. We are helping turn proven solutions into system-level change that can improve education for millions of children across Ukraine.
Our priorities for the year ahead remain clear: helping children recover lost learning, preparing future education leaders, and strengthening Ukraine’s education system through evidence, partnership, and solutions that can be scaled.
Above all, we will continue turning what we learn in classrooms and communities into evidence that informs policy, strengthens collaboration, and helps scale effective solutions across the country.
We know that lasting change is never achieved by one organization alone. Every milestone in this report reflects the dedication of an extraordinary community of teachers, school leaders, mentors, volunteers, partners, donors, researchers, and programme participants who share our belief that every child deserves the opportunity to thrive.
We are deeply grateful to everyone who made these achievements possible.
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