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Kharkiv-based activist teachers of physical education from “JuniorS” NGO came together to give a good childhood for children even at the times of war. There is a ban on mass events in communal and state institutions, but they found a way around it. As the result of the joint efforts by “JuniorS” and a shopping mall, classes in various sports (pétanque, baseball, badminton, frisbee, interesting relay races) for the youngest are held in the parking lot of the shopping mall, i.e. in a shelter. 

• children
• Kharkiv

From an ordinary basement with raw walls to an exemplary shelter: a bomb shelter was recently set up in one of Kharkiv lyceums in accordance with all the rules and requirements. Among other things, this shelter now has ventilation, electricity and the Internet. In addition, the temperature in the room is now adjustable. There are beds, study desks, a separate cafeteria and a corner for relaxation. The shelter takes up over 500 square meters. Currently, students of the lyceum study online. During air raid alerts, school employees and refugees living in the premises, go down to the bomb shelter.

• children
• reconstruction
• Kharkiv

The goal of the volunteer project “Brave to Rebuild” is to help residents of the de-occupied territories of Ukraine to restore housing and social institutions damaged as a result of the russian federation’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine. Since the beginning of May 2022, over 2,000 volunteers from Ukraine, Europe, the U.S., Canada and Australia have been involved in the project. Among other things, volunteers helped to clear debris, repair roofs and windows in 228 detached houses and 153 apartments in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Kherson regions. 

Upcoming events:

February 21-22, 2023 (Kyiv) — setting up “Volunteer Indomitability” hub in the premises of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. This indomitability center will help volunteers and young activists, as well as provide electricity to enable work during power and communication outages. In fact, it will be a public co-working space, arranged by the activists themselves.

February 25-26 (Irpin, Bucha and surrounding villages). Clearing debris, small repairs in detached houses.

• reconstruction
• russian crimes
• volunteers
• Kharkiv
• Kherson
• Kyiv

Three volunteers and athletes from Kharkiv will run a 200-kilometer race from Northern Saltivka (Kharkiv area) to Kramatorsk in Donetsk Oblast on February 27. The race will be broadcast live, and all viewers can donate money to charities and volunteer organizations. Its details will be posted on the event’s website.

• volunteers
• Kharkiv

Fuminori Tsuchiko, a 75-year-old Japanese volunteer, spent nine months of the war in the Kharkiv subway, where he helped locals. Now he lives in Kharkiv. Together with his assistants, he will distribute food to all those in need in the coming days. The funds for this food were raised thanks to donations from concerned Japanese.

• volunteers
• Kharkiv

Jerzy Jurczyński from Poznań in Poland clears debris together with rescuers from Kharkiv. The 55-year-old Pole with 10 years of mountaineering experience came to Ukraine in June as a coordinator of humanitarian aid from a Polish charitable foundation. Currently, he is the only foreigner in the team of Kharkiv climbers. He cleared the debris in schools, residential buildings and industrial zones destroyed by russian shells. In particular, he cleared the rubble in part of the city with the most destruction — Saltivka. He also helped rescuers eliminate the consequences of russia’s February 5 attack on the city center.

In addition, Jerzy Jurczyński often brings aid to the front.

• casualties
• reconstruction
• volunteers
• Kharkiv

On February 5, one of the russian missiles hit the central building of Beketov Kharkiv National University of Urban Economy. A university security guard was injured. Several floors and laboratory equipment were destroyed, Megapolis research center was damaged. University staff and students immediately joined the efforts to clear the debris and clean the territory.

As reported, since the beginning of russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the occupiers have hit the university campus over ten times. Many buildings were destroyed. Nine dormitories were damaged and one was destroyed. Currently, about half of the windows in the buildings of the University are missing, so the openings are boarded up or covered with plastic.

• russian crimes
• Kharkiv

Since the beginning of russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the occupiers have hit 13 objects of Beketov Kharkiv National University of Urban Economy. 16 educational buildings were destroyed. Nine dormitories were damaged and one was destroyed.

Currently, about half of the windows in the buildings of the university are missing, so they are boarded up or covered with plastic. Due to humidity, the premises begin to collapse. Heating systems were also damaged.

• reconstruction
• russian crimes
• Kharkiv

Ukraine’s oldest botanical garden in Kharkiv has a collection of several thousand tropical plants. Due to russian missile attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, it now suffers from constant power outages. To keep tropical and subtropical plants from freezing, workers have to turn on the generator and heat the greenhouses.

For reference: The Botanical Garden of Karazin National University of Kharkiv is a part of Kharkiv’s nature reserve fund of national significance. The botanical garden is a research and environmental protection institution. It was founded in 1804.

As reported, at the beginning of winter it became known that Hryshko National Botanical Garden in Kyiv was taking precautions to save unique plants. Employees were stockpiling firewood to heat the greenhouses. 

• blackout
• ecology
• Kharkiv

Kharkiv rescuers have been actively helping builders to restore and repair high-rise buildings damaged by the occupiers since the summer.

Only yesterday they were involved in the work twice. Engineering works with the help of rescue equipment were carried out on a 9-story residential building in Pivnichna Saltivka district in Kharkiv and an 8-story administrative building. With the help of equipment and tools, climbers and rescuers dismantled damaged structures so that builders could replace them with new ones.

• reconstruction
• Kharkiv