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Volunteers of the Save Ukraine charitable foundation evacuate people from areas near the front line. Since early November this year, more than 105 thousand Ukrainians have been provided with help. Most of them are families with children.

By prior arrangement, journalists are welcome to talk to families rescued from frontlines. 

As a reminder, volunteers of the Save Ukraine charitable foundation also organize rescue missions to return Ukrainian children illicitly transferred to Russia and Russian-controlled territories. The first mission took place a year ago, on November 8, 2022. In total, as of November 2023, the charity workers have brought 200 children back.

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Before the full-fledged invasion, Inna Yakovenko dealt with selling windows and doors. The businesswoman runs two trade pavilions in the village of Novovorontsovka in the Kherson region. At the outbreak of the full-blown, the woman’s village remained the only Ukraine-controlled one in the Novovorontsovka community. However, the settlement has come under Russian strikes hitting nearly every day for 7 months. Inna lived in the basement throughout August 2022, because of the nonstop shell rains. The heavy bombardment damaged the trade pavilions where Inna was selling. So, after the Ukrainian military liberated the community, the entrepreneur chose a new path and set up a granite dust block production facility to help rebuild dwellings for villagers who had begun to return home. Now she plans to scale up production to create as many jobs as possible.

For reference: November 11, 2023, marks the one-year anniversary of retaking Kherson. Also, during last year’s counteroffensive in southern Ukraine, the Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated some districts of the Kherson region and part of the Mykolaiv region on the right bank of the Dnipro River.

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Oleksandr Markov is a board-certified neurosurgeon. In 2015, he took up arms and joined a volunteer battalion. After returning from the front, Oleksandr took on rehabilitating civilians and soldiers at first, as a hired employee, and after 2022, as the founder of a rehabilitation center in Kharkiv. Oleksandr won a grant and received financial support from the Ukrainian Veterans Foundation and started working with military personnel who required his professional help.

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Born in Odesa, Hennadii immigrated to Israel with his family at the age of 13. There he got an education. As an adult, he worked as a truck driver.

When he learned about the full-scale invasion of Russia, he decided to return to Ukraine and protect his country. He served in the Third Separate Special Forces Battalion of the International Defense Legion of Ukraine. In December 2022, during an assault on an enemy position in the Luhansk region, the soldier stepped on a landmine. He lost an eye and two legs in the explosion.

The man was offered to go abroad for treatment, but he did not want to leave Ukraine.

Soon, journalists are welcome to talk to Hennadii in Lviv.

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From now on, Ukrainian servicemen can join training sessions from anywhere in the country. All this is part of the online training project from the organizers of the Games of Heroes competition. The online platform of rehabilitation training was launched in September of this year. This is a unique system of exercises developed by coaches Julia Koval and Valerii Kysil, which aims to rehabilitate military personnel with amputations and return them to a full life.

For reference: The “Game of Heroes” competition was first started in 2016. The project was founded by Yevhen Koval, and headed by Roman Lindov, a Kyiv native who was injured on February 18, 2014, during the Revolution of Dignity. The “Games of Heroes” were held annually until February 2022, in particular, among veterans of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard, and the Border Guard Troops. 

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First enrollment at the course “Fundamentals of Rehabilitation of People with Visual Impairments” is starting in Ukraine to train specialists who work with military and civilians who have completely or partially lost their sight as a result of the war.

The courses are free of charge. They will be held in online and offline formats. Шn particular, students will study issues of social and domestic rehabilitation and comprehensive rehabilitation of people with vision impairments.

The training program is aimed at employees of rehabilitation centers, social workers, employees of veteran organizations, etc.

By prior agreement, journalists will be able to cover in-person classes.

For reference: The training is implemented by the “League of the Strong” public union together with Charity Organization 03:00 Foundation.

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Yurii Zdor took up arms back in 2015, when Russia first attacked Ukraine. For the man, it seemed the only logical decision to make. He fought in different brigades and completed his military service as the 72nd Brigade named after the Black Cossacks member. The fighter was on standby when the full-scale invasion broke out, he has packed up all his belongings. Yurii’s wife Svitlana stayed at home in Chernihiv, and her husband went to Kyiv.

Yurii and his unit took part in heavy battles in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Donetsk and Luhansk regions. He was seriously wounded and lost his leg while fighting in eastern Ukraine. Yurii’s spouse says that waiting for her husband for stabilization point discharge was the hardest part, then she found he was getting treatment from the intensive care unit and never left him.

Yurii and Svitlana reside in Chernihiv. They are ready to talk to journalists, both offline and online.

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Since the beginning of russia’s full-scale invasion into Ukraine, Fight For Right NGO has gone on more than 1,500 evacuation trips (including medical evacuations by ambulances). They transported people with disabilities and their family members away from hostilities.

Evacuation is carried out mostly from areas near the front line. One of the biggest difficulties is that sometimes it is very hard for people to find courage to leave their homes, even when it is dangerous to stay there.

The organization also provides psychological assistance, particularly, individual consultations for people with disabilities and for mothers of children with disabilities.

In addition, psychological support groups for IDP women with disabilities are currently operating in Dnipro. The organization plans to create such groups in other cities as well. First of all, in Kyiv.

By prior agreement, journalists are welcome to cover the evacuation process or the work of the organization on psychological support for people.  

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On November 3, Odesa will launch to deliver tour guide training courses for internally displaced persons. The classes will last 4 months and are completely free of charge. Residents of Mariupol, Mykolaiv, and Kherson Oblast have already signed up to attend the guide courses.

According to the organizers, the training provides people not only with new knowledge but also with psychological support.

Journalists can attend the classes and cover the learning process.

The courses are being implemented by the Hospitable Hut humanitarian center, supported by the Department of Culture, International Cooperation, and European Integration of the Odesa City Council.

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A two-day press tour, during which scientists and environmental activists will conduct the third sampling of water and sediments from the Dnipro River, the areas flooded by the Kakhovka dam disaster, the Dnipro-Buh estuary, and the Black Sea will take place on November 1 and 2. 

The Ukrainian Scientific Center for Marine Ecology specialists together with environmental volunteers from the country’s largest environmental movement, Let`s Do It Ukraine, will conduct a study to analyze the condition of water bodies affected by the Kakhovka HPP breach. In particular, they will analyze the toxic pollution that got into the Black Sea as a result of the dam’s destruction.

The water samples will be promptly delivered to the laboratory on the same day, where journalists will have the opportunity to see how the analysis is carried out and talk to the specialists.

The press tour participants will also have the opportunity to attend the hot lunches in eco-friendly packaging distribution as a part of the Good Kitchen humanitarian project in Kherson Oblast.

Important! Journalists are to be provided with a transfer from and to Kyiv and an opportunity to stay in Mykolaiv overnight. The organizers ask for bulletproof vests and helmets to carry with you. 

Prior accreditation is required.

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