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NEST mobile houses project by Serhiy Prytula Charitable Foundation provides modular houses in Kyiv region to families who lost their homes as a result of russia’s full-scale invasion. For people, this is an opportunity to get temporary but comfortable housing on their own land, while the family rebuilds the destroyed house. The project has already provided 16 families with temporary homes. Additional funds for the modules that will house 22 families have already been put to use, and the modules are currently being manufactured. Works to put up new houses will begin on April 10. Project organizers can help find people for stories — those who already live in modular houses, or people who are still waiting for such accommodation.

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In April, Superhumans Center, a modern prosthetics and rehabilitation hospital will officially open in Lviv. Superhumans services are free for victims of war (civilian and military).

The second facility of the institution is planned to be opened in October. It will include 2 operating rooms, 45-bed wards and apartments for foreign doctors who will pass on their experience to their Ukrainian colleagues. In addition, Ukrainian prosthetists and rehabilitators from different parts of the country will be trained at Superhumans Center.

As reported, even before the official opening, two Ukrainian defenders have already received the first bionic prostheses in the hospital.

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At the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Vadym’s house in Moschun was hit by the enemy “Grad” twice: the man risked his own life to pull his grandson out of the flames. In addition, he helped other residents of the village by bringing food, providing people with fuel, and organizing the evacuation of hundreds of people. Vadym knows the entire chronology of the events in Moschun village.

For reference: fierce fighting took place in Moschun during the battles for Kyiv region in the spring of 2022. 80% of the houses were destroyed in the village.

On April 2, Ukraine commemorates the anniversary of the liberation of its northern regions from the russian invaders.

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Tetiana and her husband returned to their house in Moshchun in April 2022, and it had been destroyed as a result of fighting. They immediately started volunteering: interacting with foundations and other volunteers and asking for help (food, clothes). They supported the villagers and garden associations in every way possible, including setting up a humanitarian center in the local club. Today, the woman holds art therapy classes with local children.

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Liudmyla is 76 years old. She is an anesthesiologists-resuscitators by profession.  At the outbreak of the full-scale invasion, the woman joined the rescue effort of the occupied Hostomel in Kyiv region wounded residents (two people had shrapnel wounds). The outpatient clinic lacked the necessary tools, so she had to suture the wounded civilians with an ordinary sewing needle.

For reference: On April 2, Ukraine marks the anniversary of the liberation of the country’s northern regions(Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy) from russian occupiers.

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Additional modular houses were opened in the modular town “Mariapolis” in Lviv. Now 1,500 people will be able to live here. So far, the town has received about 700 refugees, who are mostly women with children from Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions.

In addition to residential modules, “Mariapolis” has kitchens, showers, bathrooms and playrooms. The modular town was built with the support of the UK and Poland.

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Volodymyr is a school bus driver at Volodarka Lyceum in Kyiv region. At the beginning of the war, he joined the effort to evacuate people from occupied cities and villages. The man transported the civilian population out of Irpin, Bucha, Brovary, Borodianka, Nemishaieve, Rudnya and other settlements. He managed to save dozens of people.

The evacuation of the population was carried out in the immediate vicinity of the invaders’ firing positions.

As reported, March 28 marks the first anniversary of the liberation of the town of Irpin in Kyiv region, which last year became the main battlefield during the battles for Kyiv. Kyiv region was completely liberated on April 2, 2022.

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On March 23, the UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center in Lviv is opening a prosthetics workshop equipped with equipment from one of the best manufacturers in the world, the German company Ottobock. Patients of the Center will come to the opening, as well as the first child that received a prosthesis from the UNBROKEN center, a 13-year-old son of Ukraine’s defender. Doctors and patients will also draw a picture of the sunrise as a symbol of the beginning of a new day. This piece of art will later be put up on the walls of the new building of the UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center, which will be opened on April 11.

For reference: The UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center operates from the building of the First Medical Association of Lviv — the largest medical institution in Ukraine, which includes two adult hospitals and one children’s hospital. The directions of the Center’s work include reconstructive surgery, orthopedics and prosthetics. In addition, the Center provides physical, psychological and psychosocial rehabilitation. Patients receive all medical assistance free of charge.

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Bill Clinton’s former personal physician, an American plastic surgeon whose father is from Ukraine, and six other surgeons from the United States recently arrived in Ukraine to help Ukrainians.

During this mission, doctors will help Ukrainians with post-burn deformities, congenital and acquired facial deformities, and neurosurgical injuries.

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The Ministry of Health says that mobile “health centers” will appear in place of the destroyed local primary health centers. Each center will be equipped with furniture, a refrigerator, separate sanitary facilities, etc. This is a temporary decision — until full-fledged primary health centers are rebuilt on the site of the destroyed medical facilities.

Recently, UA Dream Charitable Foundation established the first modular “health center” in Moshchun village, Kyiv region. Currently, the Ministry of Health, in cooperation with the foundation, plans to put up a few more such mobile centers throughout the country.

For reference: on the territory of Kyiv region, the russians damaged 124 medical facilities and completely destroyed 4 of them within over a year of the war.

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