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On December 5, in Kyiv, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine and the All-Ukrainian Association for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, together with the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) (Paris, France) will hold a forum on the topic: ” Rebuilding and Restoring the Cultural Heritage of Ukraine after the Big War.” The forum will be held under the auspices of the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) with headquarters in Rome. Rostyslav Karandieiev, acting First Deputy Minister of Culture and Information Policy will participate in the event.

The main goal of the event is to develop a strategy for the restoration of cultural heritage, which will take into account both the positions of the state and the professional community. As part of the event, experts from Croatia and Poland will share their experience in restoring monuments and cultural objects

Journalists are welcome to learn more about the participants of the forum and cover this event.

For reference: According to the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, 835 cultural heritage objects were destroyed or damaged as a result of russia’s full-scale aggression in the period from February 24, 2022 to September 25, 2023. Of them, 118 are monuments of national significance, 653 are of local significance, and 64 are newly discovered.

• culture
• reconstruction
• Kyiv

On December 5, on Volunteering Day, journalists have the opportunity to visit the rapid response headquarters of the VETERANKA Women’s Veteran Movement. In particular, there will be a meeting with influencers, who constantly support the movement, as well as with defenders and famous Ukrainians.

In addition, the program includes: a tour of the headquarters featuring the explanation of the movement’s activities. Visitors can also try their hand weaving camouflage nets and kikimora camouflage suits, as well as sewing women’s military uniforms and putting together a package for the front.

For reference: The headquarters of the Women’s Veteran Movement is special in that it was created on the first day of the full-scale invasion. The movement successfully raised money to pay for 5,000 individual and collective requests from the front and IDP women. Their aid to the army is worth UAH 70 million (drones, cars, uniforms, body armor, etc.)

• military
• volunteers
• women
• Kyiv

Volunteer journalists, professional chess players and the VETERANKA movement decided to organize a charity fundraiser called “Well-Aimed Fundraiser” to help Ukrainian snipers. The purpose of the fundraiser is to buy additional ammunition for the military, as there is a constant shortage of it.

The fund raiser will feature a charity chess tournament, which the organizers dedicate to the memory of chess players-warriors who died in the russo-Ukrainian war. Some of them include: Artem Sachuk, Oleksandr Hoshylyk, Mykhailo Safonov, Roman Khytrych, Serhii Mazurov, Oleksii Druzhynets, Andrii Melnychuk, Roman Buzinskyi, Andrii Chepil, Oleksandr Brivko, Andrii Vovchenko, Heorhii Promskyi, Mykola Hapchyn (MIA).

The tournament will consist of two stages: online (December 3) and offline: super final (December 9, in Kyiv).

Special guests include: soldiers — Lesia Lytvynova and Yevhen Shybalov, journalist Andriy Kulykov, blogger Denys Kazansky, military officer and writer Mykhailo Brynykh.

The winner of the chess tournament will receive a custom-made cyberpunk themed chess set made by veteran artist Vitalii Bernatskyi. Parts of the russian Su-25 shot down in Kherson region in 2022 were used to make the chess set.

Journalists are welcome to learn more about the event and, in particular, cover the super final on December 9. 

• military
• volunteers
• Kyiv

On December 1, Ukrposhta will officially open the New Year’s Postal Residence and announce its December festive events.

This year, the organizers will come up with an innovation: a large-scale initiative “Miracles for Christmas”, which is launched in partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Among other things, a poll of the little ones’ most cherished wishes will be taken. 

Event prior registration is required.

• Kyiv

The Save Ukraine charitable organization and its partners have installed modular houses as part of the Fort Home project for people displaced from their homes by war. The modular housing is available in Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Chernivtsi regions. Currently, 117 Ukrainian families have settled in the modular homes.

Despite their small size (20 square meters), these modular homes are of good quality and have all the necessary living conditions for families to feel comfortable and cozy. These are dwellings with water supply, heating systems, a generator/air conditioner, a fully equipped kitchen, and household appliances. Housing is provided free of charge and for a long-term period. The residents receive monthly humanitarian and medical assistance.

Journalists can learn more about the Fort Home project and talk to the residents of the modular homes, whenever possible. 

• casualties
• volunteers
• Kyiv

On December 6, savED international charitable foundation together with Finn Church Aid international aid organization and the Zhytomyr City Council will present the results of the year’s work on the concept, strategy and curriculum for the specialized high school in Ukraine, as well as plans for the implementation of the specialized high school reform.

The event will also feature the discussion entitled ” Specialized High School Reform: challenges and priorities”

Participants:

• Oksen Lisovyi, Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine
• Anna Novosad, Co-Founder of savED
• Patricia Maruschak, Ukraine Country Director for Finn Church Aid
• Liliia Hrynevych, Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine in 2016-2019
• Vasyl Hopachenko, Principal of Lyceum No. 12, Chernihiv
• Sofiia Hryhorenko, 10th grade student of Lyceum No. 24, Zhytomyr

The event will be moderated by Yevhenii Yanovych, blogger, host of “20:23” show.

Registration is required. 

• Kyiv

The official opening of the learning ‘mini hub’ in the liberated Rudnytske village in Kyiv Oblast will be held On November 30. The settlement was severely damaged during the occupation of the region in the spring of 2022: private houses were utterly destroyed, and the school and other infrastructure facilities were smashed up. The children, eventually, had no place to study, attend after-school clubs, or just get together.

Thanks to the grant and philanthropists, we managed to create a hub where teachers can give lectures, the youth can organize their leisure time, and children can stay online to do their homework in case the power is out.

Event prior accreditation is required.

For reference: The learning ‘mini hub’ in Rudnytske in the Kyiv region, was created by the MHP-Gromadi Foundation with the support of ISAR Ednannia as part of the Ukraine Civil Society Sectoral Support Activity project.

• casualties
• children
• occupation
• reconstruction
• Kyiv

The NGO Ukrainian Valkyrie conducts self-defense training for women in Kyiv and the Oblast. These classes aim to overcome the fear of weapons, learn the gun culture, and acquire skills in armed self-defense. It also focuses on giving every woman, wife, and mother in Ukraine a chance to protect herself and her family from attacks on their lives and health.

Group classes are held 4 times a week. It combines two components: spiritual balancing and armed security training.

Among other things, women can train on a multimedia shooting simulator; gain basic knowledge of the law on hunting weapons; receive training in practical shooting exercises with rifled and smoothbore weapons; and receive first aid training.

The classes are attended by women of diverse occupations: accountants, educators, and beauty industry workers. Overall, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, about 800 women have completed the training, and about 150 have joined the Ukrainian security forces.

• women
• Kyiv

On December 1, journalists are invited to attend the medical conference “Health of the Nation and Society”. The physical and sexual rehabilitation for the military is the event’s main topic.

The conference by: the Association of Urologists of Ukraine, the State Institution Academician Vozianov Institute of Urology, and the National Institute of Sexology and Sexual Health. Other themes to be discussed include research and current issues of modern urology and men’s sexual health.

Event accreditation is required.

• doctors
• Kyiv

On November 28, an exhibition “100 Paintings by Wives of Real Heroes” will take place in Kyiv as part of the Music and Poetry Festival. The paintings were created by women who lost their husbands in war. 

The exhibition was made possible by the charity project “A Thousand Love Stories. Paintings by Wives of Real Heroes”. It was launched 10 months ago by artist Oleg Yurov. During this time, 200 women took part in art workshops to create paintings in memory of their husbands who died defending Ukraine. In particular, women painted dreams, objects, or phenomena that they associate with their husbands.

Journalists will have the opportunity to talk to the participants of the charity project during the exhibition on November 28 and December 2.

• culture
• dead
• military
• women
• Kyiv