Ukrainian teenagers win Children's Peace Prize 2023 for developing apps to help young refugees

Sofiia Tereshchenko, Anastasiia Feskova and Anastasiia Demchenko were working together on a project to develop a mobile app when the country was invaded by Russia in 2022. Aged just 16 and 17 at the time, the girls were truly shocked by the stories of other children being forced to cross the border to other countries and become a refugee without any parent to rely on.

They immediately shifted the focus of their mobile app project, to build a solution that supported refugee children in need while fleeing Ukraine themselves to the USA, UK and Japan, where under very difficult circumstances they managed to build two apps that are now operational.