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On December 16-17, the Superhumans Center team, an ultra-modern rehabilitation and prosthetics center for war victims) will attend the Christmas Courage charity fair. The Center’s patients will show them making great strides in adapting to life with a prosthetic limb. For example, Vadym with a prosthetic arm, and Serhii with two prosthetic legs used to be bartenders before the war. At the Courage charity fair, the guys will treat visitors with Christmas tea and cocoa. And Serhii, who has bilateral upper-limb loss resulting in double amputation, will treat the fair guests with homemade waffle cakes.

The “supers” are also preparing self-made Christmas decorations for all comers. Also, the Group for Active Rehabilitation, headed by Uliana Pcholkina, will hold wheelchair relay races for all visitors and, together with the Superhumans team, will organize a Christmas caroling party. 

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Journalists are welcome to visit shelters for the unhoused elderly people (including those with disabilities) in Prybirsk and Hornostaipil in Kyiv Oblast together with the Yulyni Babusi (Yulia’s Grandmothers) charity foundation. To get seniors into the New Year’s Eve spirit, they will be given gifts: candy, cookies, tea, coffee, warm socks, blankets, knitting and embroidery kits. They will also receive greeting cards and letters written by caring Ukrainians.

Anyone willing could join the charity event and make a gift pack for the elderly in the shelters run by the foundation.

For reference: Yulia Karpova, a morning show radio host, founded the Yulyni Babusi charity foundation, which benefits senior citizens. The foundation’s slogan is: “There are no cooler grandchildren for older people than you and me.” Currently, they run 7 shelters in the Kyiv region (including in settlements affected by the occupation), Zhytomyr, and Dnipro regions. In total, the benefactors have more than five hundred children in need of care.

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• Kyiv

The ShchukaRyba band, DJ Chocollab, and children will host a charity concert featuring Ukrainian traditional songs and Christmas Carols in Kyiv on December 14. 

All funds raised will be used to provide psychological assistance to children affected by the war. The concert will showcase compositions created by teenagers in collaboration with the musicians.

This charitable event will serve as the culmination of the “Sound Lab” course conducted by the “Voices of Children” Foundation for teenagers. For several months, 15 teenagers from different regions, each with different war experiences, participated in a course covering traditional singing and electronic music, led by the folk group “ShchukaRyba” and DJ Chocollab. Together with the foundation’s psychologist, the children used music to live through their war experiences, traumatic memories, emotions, and feelings. Music can have a powerful therapeutic effect during times of war. 

• casualties
• children
• psychological support
• Kyiv

On December 14, a ceremonial handover of chaplain backpacks to military chaplains of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will take place in Kyiv. For the first time, volunteers will give each military chaplain a special backpack for the needs of chaplains serving at the frontlines.

The organizers of the event are convinced that volunteer support for chaplaincy service is extremely important, because chaplains take care of the spirit of Ukrainian soldiers.

The participants of the event will include:

• Nadiia Vovk – a Ukrainian volunteer, the initiator of the campaign to support and provide for chaplains in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
• Colonel Oleksii Tereshchuk – Head of the Military Chaplaincy Service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
• Military chaplains of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of various denominations.

The event requires accreditation.

• religion
• Kyiv

Volunteers of “Brave to Rebuild” project created a wall calendar for the year 2024 with the participation of men who actively volunteered in community work in Kyiv region. (In particular, they cleared the rubble, laid communication lines, repaired houses damaged as a result of russia’s full-scale invasion). The calendar will also include photos of foreign volunteers.

According to the organizers’ design, this calendar is a reminder that it is still important to work hard to volunteer and help each other in 2024.

Pre-orders for “Brave Calendar” are already open (at the cost of a donation of UAH 300). Proceeds will go towards the purchase of tools and materials that volunteers will use for community work in 2024.

Journalists can talk to people involved in making the calendar and to volunteers who took part in the photo shoot. Currently, the calendar is in the production stage.

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• Kyiv

On December 15, a charity table tennis tournament called Drone Pong will be held in Kyiv. The tournament is intended for amateurs. The competition will be held in the form of an elimination tournament, and each participant will be able play against at least 2 opponents.

The purpose of the charity event is to collect UAH 380,000 for 2 Mavic 3T drones for the 411th battalion of unmanned aircraft serving along the Tavria axis.

The entrance ticket to Drone Pong costs UAH 660, since December 15 will mark exactly 660 days since the start of russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Journalists are welcome to learn more about the event and cover the tournament.

For reference: Drone Pong is organized by Hurkit charity fund. This is a team of volunteers who have been helping military personnel, medics, and civilians since the beginning of the full-scale war.

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• Kyiv

On December 14, the first UKRAINIAN CONSTRUCTION CONGRESS will be held in Kyiv, during which participants will discuss the Formula for the Reconstruction of Ukraine.

The event will become a platform for a constructive exchange of views between the authorities, developers, architects, builders, manufacturers of building materials, the civil society and other players in the industry. An important issue to be considered at the congress will deal with the problem of the return of Ukrainians from abroad, without whom the renewal of Ukraine is impossible.

The program of the event will consist of discussion panels, speeches and presentations by experts from various fields.

Mykhailo Podolyak, Adviser to the Head of the President’s Office, and Rostyslav Karandieiev, acting Minister of Culture and Information Policy, will give a welcome speech at the event.

Other topics to be discussed at the event include:

• Architecture Education. Destruction or misunderstanding of the reconstruction needs?
• Innovations and their impact on business development;
• Promising investments in the future reconstruction of Ukraine;
• Technology for future recovery as a tool for Ukraine’s modernization;
• Money for housing. Sources of income 2024: investments, sales, mortgage;
• City without borders: relevant examples and actions towards a barrier-free environment;
• Sustainable City: transforming Ukraine by transforming cities.

• reconstruction
• Kyiv

On December 8, the audiovisual exhibition “Voices of De-Occupation” will be opened in Kyiv. In addition, the results of the project “Brave to Document-2” will be presented there. The event is organized by the charitable organization “Brave Foundation” with the support of the Prague Civil Society Centre.

The audiovisual exhibition will tell the stories of people from Chernihiv and Kharkiv regions whose homes were destroyed or damaged due to the russian occupation and russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The exhibition will present the stories of 23 owners of damaged houses both in audio recording and text forms featuring photographs.

The participants of the event will include:

– Vitaliy Selyk, Director of the “Brave” foundation,

– a representative of the Prague Civil Society Centre (TBC),

– Yevheniia Papatsenko, representative of the Brave to Restore branch in Kharkiv region,

– Alina Krupianyk, “Brave to Document-2” Project Manager,

– Liudmyla Petrukhan-Shcherbakova, “Dare to Document-2” Project Manager.

The event requires registration.

• casualties
• occupation
• russian crimes
• Kyiv

The Women of Steel NGO, together with the families of Ukrainian prisoners of war, invites the media to a peaceful action called Lost Connection to take place on December 10, in Kyiv. The event is aimed at supporting Ukrainian prisoners of war and their families.

“We want the Ukrainian government and society to hear us and demonstrate their intention to continue the decisive struggle for their liberation together with the families of Ukrainian captured defenders,” the organizers of the campaign state.

According to them, the exchange process has been completely paused for the past six months. Ukrainian soldiers held hostage in Russian custody are deprived of any chance to send word about themselves being in captivity.

Women of Steel is convinced that only the unity and integrity of society and increasing pressure on the aggressor state can influence the situation.

• military
• prisoners
• women
• Kyiv

On December 6, St. Nicholas Day, Ukrposhta invites journalists to a special redemption of the “St. Nicholas Gifts” postage stamp. 

The event will involve:

– Ihor Smilyanskyi, Director General of Ukrposhta.

– Kost Lavro, an artist, Ukrainian book graphic artist, known for the design of books for A-Ba-Ba-Ga-La-Ma-Ga Publishing House.

St. Nicholas and his helpers will also visit the event and wish children a happy holiday.

Prior accreditation is required. 

For reference: This year, Ukraine celebrates St. Nicholas Day for the first time according to the Revised Julian calendar on December 6.

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