Media Center Ukraine Producer Department

Zoia Sever was born in Lviv but moved to Israel with her family as a teenager. For more than 15 years, she has dedicated herself to art, running her own painting and sculpture studios.

She is also actively involved in volunteer work. Following the start of russia’s full-scale invasion, she founded a charitable foundation supporting Ukrainian service members. She has also been traveling regularly to Ukraine as a volunteer and trainer with the Israel Trauma Coalition. During one of these visits, she came up with the idea for the “Window to Peace” project. Together with children, Zoia paints bomb shelters in schools, hospitals, and boarding schools, transforming them into more welcoming spaces. One of the project’s completed works is the bomb shelter at Kyiv’s Okhmatdyt National Children’s Specialized Hospital.

The project does not have a permanent team, and volunteer artists frequently join its activities.

Zoia Sever is available for interviews both online and in person in Lviv until July 27, by prior arrangement.

• culture
• volunteers
• women
• Lviv

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Peaceful rallies will be be held in 24 Ukrainian cities to remind the public about the defenders of Azovstal and other Ukrainian service members who remain in russian captivity.

On July 18, rallies will take place in Okhtyrka, Pavlohrad, Vinnytsia, Chernihiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Bila Tserkva, Shpola, Volochysk, and Lviv.

On July 19, events are scheduled in Kyiv, Krolevets, Pivdennoukrainsk, Kremenchuk, Mykolaiv, Ovruch, Uman, Obukhiv, Dolynska, Lozova, Uzhhorod, Berdychiv, Kropyvnytskyi, and Odesa.

The events are organized by the families of prisoners of war from the Mariupol Garrison. Ukrainians who have been released from russian captivity also frequently join the rallies.

• military
• prisoners

If you are interested in this topic, you can obtain the subjects’ contacts from the Producer Department of Media Center Ukraine.