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Psychologists from the Voices of Children Foundation will visit the de-occupied Katiuzhanka in Kyiv Oblast on World Mental Health Day observed on October 10. The specialists will conduct group psychosocial sessions with children and their parents.

The foundation’s Kyiv office will also hold psychological sessions for families with children affected by the war.

For reference: The Children’s Voices Charitable Foundation provides psychological and psychosocial assistance to war-torn children.

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• psychological support
• Kyiv

On October 8, Kyiv will host a concert, a photo exhibition, a frontline float, and panel discussions that will address the topic of rebuilding Ukrainian cities after the de-occupation. The event is Ukraïner’s Brave Cities video project next up and aims to raise UAH 10,000,000 to support the Come Back Alive Foundation.

Last year, the Ukraїner team presented the Brave Cities research project. It’s a series of videos telling the story of the struggle of the temporarily occupied cities whose residents are heroically resisting. The videos were created by the Ukraїner team in cooperation with local historians, historians, civic activists, and athletes i.e. those who know and feel these localities best. Ukrainian musicians also joined the project and wrote songs about some of these cities. These songs will be performed at the charity concert. Palindrome, Druha Rika, Kryhitka, OTOY, Lilu 45, Sasha Chemerov, and others are among the participants.

Prior accreditation is required for the media representatives. 

• culture
• Kyiv

On October 8 Kyiv will hold a memorial evening for Canadian volunteer Anthony ‘Tonko’ Ihnat and Spanish volunteer and director of Road2Relief Emma Igual, who were killed in Donetsk Oblast. In September, along with other foreign volunteers, assisted by civilians they were traveling from Chasiv Yar to Ivanivske village. The car was hit by a Russian shell.

The memorial evening is held by Brave to Rebuild project volunteers together with the Road2Relief team.

For reference: Canadian Anthony sold his truck in 2022 and came to Ukraine to help people. He worked at clean-ups, carried bags for people at the Polish border, delivered humanitarian aid, evacuated people, and repaired schools.

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• volunteers
• Kyiv

On October 6, Italian journalist Kevin Carboni will complete a three-week trek to Kyiv: the man set out on a 500-kilometer journey from the Polish border to the Ukrainian capital to raise €1 million to help Ukraine. Collected funds will be donated to the Voices of Children Foundation, to provide free psychological assistance to war-torn children, and the Energy Act For Ukraine Foundation, to install solar generators in schools and hospitals. The man also draws attention to the war in Ukraine with his hike. You can track his travel on the Walk to Kyiv initiative’s Instagram page.

Media representatives are welcome to meet Kevin in Kyiv city center, where he will complete his trip. Additionally, he plans to visit the Voices of Children office in Kyiv, where psychosocial and leisure activities for children are held.

For reference: in 2018, Kevin came to Ukraine taking an Erasmus exchange program to study at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. His friends from Kyiv helped him arrange the Walk to Kyiv initiative.

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Joint Forces Operation veteran Andrii Nesmachnyi came up with the idea to set up a workshop where servicemen on leave or after getting injured could work few years ago. The BatArt workshop ran successfully in the Kyiv region, producing craft glassware and donating the proceeds to the needs of wounded combatants in eastern Ukraine until the Russians destroyed the workshop, after the start of the full-scale invasion. After it happened its founder Andrii took up arms again and rose in defence of Ukraine.

Recently, a serviceman renewed production. In between the military personnel rotations, he and his fellow soldiers work on craft glasses, shot glasses, knives, and various souvenirs. Bullet casings are used, among other things, for manufacturing. The money earned in the workshop is directed at providing units with drones, night vision devices, and vehicle repairs.

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• Kyiv

On October 9, Kyiv will host a presentation of a unique app, in which sport is used to rehabilitate veterans and soldiers who have received injuries and wounds in active service.

The presentation will be interactive: the visitors will be able to compete with veterans and strongmen in rowing. (You need to take sportswear with you). The presentation will include a demonstration and a press briefing.

Accreditation is required and open until 8:00 PM on October 8.

For reference: The public organization “Victory of the Invincible” and the Strongman Federation of Ukraine, led by Serhii Koniushok, Oleksandr Lashyn and Vasyl Virastyuk, present TRENVET – a fitness app that offers veterans and military personnel the opportunity to find a trainer and undergo sports rehabilitation for free. It allows defenders to quickly find professionals using filters and geolocation.

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• Kyiv

On October 5, the American artist Colette Miller will create a mural on Arsenalna Square in the capital, which will be followed by an official unveiling.

She came to Ukraine to create a street art installation that will become part of the Global Angel Wings Project.

Her “wings” are already adorning the streets of Kenya, London’s Heathrow International Airport, a refugee camp and an exquisite wall of a modern estate in France.

Prior accreditation for the media is required.

For reference: The American artist also created the mural “Angel Wings” on Sicheslavska Embankment in Dnipro.

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• women
• Kyiv

Anna Pavlus is 38. She is a fashion designer by profession. The woman worked as a custom tailor (she had her own workshop). In 2016, Anna fell and suffered a spinal cord injury and has been forced to use a wheelchair ever since. The woman faced the problem of uncomfortable clothes for people with disabilities. She herself began designing clothes more suitable for the sitting position of the body, since there was no such thing on the market in Ukraine. And then she started making the clothes to order.

With the beginning of the full-scale war, her production stopped for a month. In order to restore and increase the capacity, the woman received a state grant. And since March 2023, a sewing workshop has been operating in Kyiv region, where Anna sews adaptive clothes. Three more people work there, including a person in a wheelchair.

Anna plans to create a social enterprise to train and employ other people in wheelchairs.

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• Kyiv

Artur Proidakov is a native of the temporarily occupied Kadiivka, Luhansk region. Since childhood, the man has been fond of the Ukrainian language, literature, culture, music, and everything related to Ukraine. In 2007, Artur chose the profession of a teacher and decided to major in Ukrainian philology. He studied and worked until russia attacked the East of the country in 2014. The man moved to the capital and began to teach refugees, for this he created his own online Ukrainian language course. With the beginning of the full-scale war, Artur also developed an online course “Talk” for those who want to switch from russian to Ukrainian.

For reference: In 2021, Artur Proidakov became the winner of the Global Teacher Prize Ukraine. And this year, Proidakov made the rating of the top 50 teachers in the world.

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The government project “Recovery Army” is already working in Ukraine. It involves unemployed Ukrainians in community service. As of September 18, more than 50,000 people have joined the initiative. People get paid for the work they do.

Kharkiv oblast currently ranks the first in terms of attracting the unemployed to the “Recovery Army” (more than 10,000 people, about 1,000 of whom are IDPs). Kyiv oblast holds the fourth place, after Poltava and Donetsk regions. In particular, the participants from Kyiv region are put to work weaving camouflage nets, improving city spaces, sewing clothes or making dry rations for defenders, setting up shelters, etc.

Journalists are welcome to take a look at how the project is being implemented in Kharkiv or Kyiv regions. They can also get a comment from the authorities on this topic.

• reconstruction
• Kharkiv
• Kyiv