Themes by tag: Lviv

Eight surgeons from the U.S. will arrive in Lviv to help Ukrainians free of charge. They will consult people with congenital and acquired disorders, mine blast injuries to the face and burn injuries. Some of the patients will undergo surgery after consultations.

• casualties
• doctors
• Lviv

During the year of the war, 800 enterprises were relocated to safer regions of the country under the government’s relocation program. 623 of that number have already resumed work in a new location, according to the Ministry of Economy report. Most enterprises were relocated to Lviv, Zakarpattia, Chernivtsi, and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblasts.

Earlier, the Rubizhne Hosiery Manufacturer, the factory that was destroyed by the russians during the seizure of the city, moved to Lviv. It was decided to continue its business in western Ukraine: they found factory premises and purchased equipment. Some employees also left Luhansk to continue their job at the company. The factory had been successfully operating for over 20 years before russia’s full-scale invasion and occupation of Rubizhne.

• reconstruction
• russian crimes
• Lviv

The Malteser Relief Service launched ‘Mobile Space for Games’ project to provide psychosocial support to children in an entertaining form. Three specialized teams on buses filled with game and sports equipment go on trips around Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Zakarpattia regions. Each team consists of psychologists, entertainers and art therapists who organize the so-called “smart entertainment.”

In this way, experts help children cope with psychological trauma caused by the war, as well as facilitate integration of refugee children in new communities. They plan to help 8,000 children as a part of the project.

Up to 100 children of all ages take part in “smart entertainment” during a single trip.

• children
• psychological support
• Ivano-Frankivsk
• Lviv
• Uzhhorod

In one of the villages in Lviv region, refugees (mostly from Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts) have set up an eco-farm and are building a house of hemp. In order to implement this project, “Go Friends” NGO had bought an abandoned farm and some land. A hundred people can live in such an eco-house. Currently, the refugees are busy insulating the walls of the future house.

In addition, the settlers have already brought in a hundred different animals to this eco-farm and are planting a vegetable garden. Five lakes on the farm were filled with fish.

The concept of this eco-household is that people work and provide themselves with food. There are also plans to start craft production on site.

• casualties
• ecology
• reconstruction
• Lviv

Malteser Relief Service has been providing psychological support to the people affected by the war since 2014. With the beginning of russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the work of the psychological team was expanded.

Psychologists provide both group and individual consultations. They work in shelters, transit centers for refugees and displaced persons (for example, train stations and border crossing points) and in inclusive child care centers. They also work with schoolteachers and with people in hospitals, who have lost their limbs due to the war, and so on.

Journalists are invited to learn more about how psychologists work.

Fore reference: Malteser Relief Service is an international charity working in 120 countries. It has been operating in Ukraine for 32 years. Malteser Relief Service has a number of branches in Ukraine and the main office in Lviv.

• casualties
• psychological support
• Lviv

Currently over 750 refugees from various regions of Ukraine live in the largest modular town of Lviv, which is located in the city’s Sykhiv district. However, residents of the other three modular towns in the city are currently being resettled here, since the modular houses in Sykhiv are the most suited to winter conditions. The main advantage of this town is that the houses in it are of the so-called ‘corridor type.’ When people living in modular houses leave their rooms, they don’t go outside, but to a corridor. This way heat is better preserved.

• casualties
• Lviv

More than five hundred couples in love throughout Ukraine will create new families on Valentine’s Day. Currently, Civil Registry Offices continue to receive applications for registration of marriages. So far, the majority of applications to get married on this day have come from Dnipropetrovsk, Lviv, Volyn, Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Odesa regions and Kyiv.

In addition, Civil Registry Offices participating in “Love Will Win” event will work extra hours on Valentine’s Day.

Journalists are invited to talk to the employees of Civil Registry Offices and, if possible, film marriage registration.

• Dnipro
• Ivano-Frankivsk
• Kyiv
• Lutsk
• Lviv
• Odesa

Ihor Krupnov from Dnipro is 57 years old. On February 24, Ihor went to the military enlistment office without any hesitation, and a week later he was already at the front. He could not do otherwise, because he had military experience, as he had served in Afghanistan.

In November, Ihor’s car was blown up by two anti-tank mines in Kherson region. The man received extremely serious injuries to his lower limbs. It was not possible to save the defender’s legs, the surgeons performed amputation after consulting with a prosthetist, who helped determine the best level of amputation for further prosthetics. Currently, Ihor Krupnov is preparing to receive prosthetics at Unbroken Center in Lviv. The military man dreams of running a marathon again. He also says that Kherson region was the second time he was blown up by a mine, the first time it happened in Afghanistan.

• casualties
• doctors
• military
• Lviv

“Riding into the Future” project holds therapeutic horse riding classes for military personnel who have musculoskeletal disorders and amputated limbs after participating in combat.

The project was founded by a married couple of Oleksandra and Vasyl. Now Vasyl himself is at the front, so Oleksandra, together with Natalka, the founder of “DoloniDotyk” (a Touch of a Hand) NGO holds horse riding classes for wounded soldiers every week.

• animals
• casualties
• military
• volunteers
• Lviv

Employees of one of the beauty salons in Lviv region were providing hairdressing services, when the power went out. However, they figured that they could finish their work at an Invincibility Center. (There is even a video of how they serve a client who came to have her hair dyed).

The owner of the salon, Anna, says that the rescuers at the Invincibility Center were good to the guests: they treated them to tasty food and tea. She adds that in case of a force majeure with the power supply, she will have to come back to the tent set up by the State Emergency Service.

By the way, this beauty salon holds volunteer “Kindness Days.” Among other things, hairdressing services are provided free of charge to internally displaced persons. And in February, they plan to organize the same for the military.

For reference: Invincibility Centers are places set up during the war where people can stay warm, get access to water, electricity, internet, etc.

• blackout
• volunteers
• Lviv