Some 100 people gathered in Tarasa Shevchenka park in Kyiv to mark World Autism Awareness Day on April 2. On this day every year, member states of the United Nations are supposed to raise awareness about challenges that people with autism face.
Event’s participants wore blue-colored clothes, played with blue balloons, collected puzzle pieces into a heart, drew, and stood in a line holding a long blue ribbon, a symbol of autism awareness.
More than 6,000 autistic children who live in Ukraine, according to the official statistics, although non-government organizations say that the actual amount could exceed 100,000 as many pediatricians, parents and teachers still struggle to identify autism.
Read the story about the life of children with autism in Ukraine.
