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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.

• volunteers
• 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.

• volunteers
• 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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On December 9, the Brave to Rebuild project volunteers will visit the owners of the houses they helped to restore (in particular by clearing the rubble, repairing damaged houses, and laying communications) in the Kyiv region.

The Brave Little Santas initiative will be taken at Irpin, Bucha, Horenka, and Hostomel to pay a visit to about two dozen families.

Volunteers have already bought gifts. These include, for example, power banks, blankets, shoes, and much more.

By prior arrangement, journalists are able to cover the “Brave Little Santas” visits. 

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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• reconstruction
• volunteers
• Kyiv

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