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Additional modular houses were opened in the modular town “Mariapolis” in Lviv. Now 1,500 people will be able to live here. So far, the town has received about 700 refugees, who are mostly women with children from Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions.

In addition to residential modules, “Mariapolis” has kitchens, showers, bathrooms and playrooms. The modular town was built with the support of the UK and Poland.

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On March 27, a briefing on the handover of 33 ambulances from the WHO to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine will be held in Lviv region. Ambulances will help healthcare workers provide medical care more quickly and efficiently during the russian invasion of Ukraine. Participants of the event will include: Viktor Liashko, Minister of Health of Ukraine; Jarno Habicht, WHO Representative in Ukraine at World Health Organization; Maciej Popowski, Director-General – Directorate General European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO); Tetiana Rastryhina, Senior Project Management Specialist at USAID Ukraine Health Office.

Accreditation is required.

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• Lviv

On March 23, the UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center in Lviv is opening a prosthetics workshop equipped with equipment from one of the best manufacturers in the world, the German company Ottobock. Patients of the Center will come to the opening, as well as the first child that received a prosthesis from the UNBROKEN center, a 13-year-old son of Ukraine’s defender. Doctors and patients will also draw a picture of the sunrise as a symbol of the beginning of a new day. This piece of art will later be put up on the walls of the new building of the UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center, which will be opened on April 11.

For reference: The UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center operates from the building of the First Medical Association of Lviv — the largest medical institution in Ukraine, which includes two adult hospitals and one children’s hospital. The directions of the Center’s work include reconstructive surgery, orthopedics and prosthetics. In addition, the Center provides physical, psychological and psychosocial rehabilitation. Patients receive all medical assistance free of charge.

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Bill Clinton’s former personal physician, an American plastic surgeon whose father is from Ukraine, and six other surgeons from the United States recently arrived in Ukraine to help Ukrainians.

During this mission, doctors will help Ukrainians with post-burn deformities, congenital and acquired facial deformities, and neurosurgical injuries.

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A field kitchen in the shape of a tipi (Native American tent) was put up in Sokilnyky, Lviv Oblast. There, the refugees are treated to vegan dinners. The menu may include, for example, roasted soybeans and wood-fired borscht. No electricity or gas is used for cooking. Within a day, volunteers make several hundred portions of food.

The field kitchen was put up with the help of the American organization “Altruist Relief Kitchen” from Alaska. Tipis may be installed in other cities of Ukraine in the near future.

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• Lviv

On March 11, Lviv will host the first SUPERWOMAN forum since the full-scale invasion started. This time, the event has two charitable goals: the collected funds will be transferred to support NGO “Ukrainian Women Veteran Movement” — VETERANKA, which takes care of the needs of women in the army (by purchasing ultra-light plates, hygiene kits, women’s uniforms, shoes, drones, cars, tactical medical kits). The second part of the funds will be sent to the grant #100chansivdlya100zhinok (100 chances for women) — an educational project that provides training in digital professions to women who suffered from russian aggression.

SUPERWOMAN LVIV is a forum organized by women for women and about women. It is a place to support all professions, social roles, views and beliefs at all stages of their life journey.

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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.

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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.

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• 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.

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• Ivano-Frankivsk
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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.

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