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Dubky, a modular home camp, was opened in Irpin, a town in Kyiv Oblast damaged by russian fire.  Further 352 Irpin residents, who lost their homes, will get temporary shelter in their native town.  The camp comprises 88 four-person residential units, with 55 units already occupied.  They accommodate families of healthcare, education, and military personnel.  The camp has a library, a small gym, an activity room for children, a recreation space, and a laundry/ironing zone.  World Central Kitchen NGO helps provide camp residents with food.

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• russian crimes
• Kyiv

Till late May, Sievierodonetsk Multidisciplinary Hospital worked under fire, treating both civilian and military ill and wounded.  Physicians decided to relocate to a calmer region when the forthcoming occupation of the city had become evident, realizing that the medical team would not be able to keep helping the patients.  By the time the medics left, the hospital building had been razed to the ground.  They only managed to get out with three ambulance cars, an ultrasonography device, and a cardiograph.  Other equipment was damaged.  Thirty percent of the hospital’s personnel moved to Dnipro, including 70% of physicians.

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• Dnipro

62-years-old Iryna was seriously wounded due to the russian artillery attack on her neighborhood in Sievierodonetsk. Only 5 buildings remain standing on the street where Iryna and her grandson used to live. Her thigh had to be amputated due to the heavy injuries. Currently, she is in one of the hospitals in Lviv Oblast. The Hands for a Mom project raised money to buy a prosthetic leg for Iryna. Within the framework of this initiative, prominent artists sold their works at auctions abroad and in Lviv. They raised over 30,000 euros to provide prosthetics for women gravely injured during the war. Soon, project organizers will buy prosthetics for two more injured women.

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• women
• Lviv

Due to russia’s all-out invasion, a posh restaurant in Zakarpattia Oblast is now working as a social canteen. In early March, the establishment’s owners decided to provide food to internally displaced persons from all over Ukraine free of charge. They had to work extremely fast and were assisted by volunteers and locals. The restaurant is still operating as a social canteen now.

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• Uzhhorod

An Urban-toloka will take place in Lviv from August 12 to 14 to help clear the space for the future shelter camp for families with children. Residents of Lviv are invited to clean up an area of 5,700 square meters. A new modern shelter for people affected by the war is scheduled to open its doors in early October.

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• reconstruction
• volunteers
• Lviv

Sociotherapy City Crisis Center in Kyiv offers special anti-stress therapy pro bono to the Ukrainian survivors of crisis events during the war. The Center’s personnel will assist with symptoms of an acute stress reaction, anxiety, or depressive disorders. The Center welcomes people who survived the occupation or evacuation or stayed in active combat areas. The therapy sessions are organized in groups and as individual sessions with a psychologist.

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• occupation
• psychological support
• Kyiv

Volunteers of Magic Moments community help the residents of Kyiv region to clear the buildings that collapsed as a result of the war. They have already made three visits to the region. They also helped to clean up the aftermath of the destruction and responded to the requests by locals to get the necessary appliances and furniture. Their next trip to Kyiv region is planned for the end of August.

For reference: Magic moments is a travel agency that organizes original trips in Ukraine and abroad. Both agency employees and tourists have joined the volunteer movement. Everyone is also welcome to join the charity initiative.

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• Kyiv

IDPs from Kyiv have opened a shelter with a dry pool in Vinnytsia. The shelter has a three-meter large screen with a movie projector and a small bar with coffee and pastries. Visitors of the “relax shelter” (called so because it operates in the basement) can relax and decompress. In addition, residents and guests of the city can go there to wait through the air raids.

In July, over 200 residents from different oblasts “swam” in the dry pool for free. The youngest guest was 2 years old, and the oldest was 52.

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• Vinnytsia

Eleven years old, Lev evacuated from Sievierodonetsk in Luhansk Oblast this spring. Two months ago, he underwent a major surgical procedure in Lviv. Lev was in a grave condition, with a spinal tumor preventing him from moving; the child also had issues with inner organs. Lev and his family moved to Khmelnytskyi Oblast because his native city was under occupation. The boy is still being rehabilitated after surgery.

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• children
• doctors
• russian crimes

At the very beginning of russia’s full-scale invasion, a rescue worker from Mariupol had to deliver his wounded relative to the hospital because a projectile hit his house. In addition, he spent several days moving his family to a safe place. He repaired his car perforated with shell fragments under fire and got through 50 invader checkpoints. He works as a rescuer in Lutsk now.

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• Lutsk