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An event to provide information about each form of family-based child care and about preparing for a child to join your family will take place on the occasion of the National Adoption Day at Lviv’s House of Mercy on September 30, 2022, at 12.00 PM (noon). Potential foster families will be able to discuss all issues related to adopting children during the war.

Background information: There are 523 orphans or children left without parental care in Lviv Oblast at the moment. Of them, 103 children can be adopted.

• children
• Lviv

The first municipal prosthetics workshop started working in Lviv within the scope of the NEZLAMNI project. It is accommodated in a special mobile container module. Prosthetics will be made by Ottobock, an internationally renowned German company. The workshop will take measures of patients who need the prosthetics, while the medics will configure and refine the prosthetics.

• casualties
• doctors
• Lviv

Registration for the charity “Run to 100,000 Bulletproof Vests” was extended until September 26. Anyone who wants to take part in the run in an online format and receive a medal made of real armored steel used to make body armor for Ukrainian defenders. With the funds received from registration fees, Lviv Defense Cluster will produce body armor for the military.

A number of Ukrainian athletes have joined the initiative including: Yaroslava Mahuchikh, Zhan Beleniuk, Olga Saladukha, Viktoria Shkurko, Anzhelika Terliuga and Stanislav Horuna. More than 1,700 participants have already registered for the run, and over UAH 1.8 million have already been collected.

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• Lviv

The next stage of training by American infantrymen began in Lviv. Together with Ukrainian instructors, they are training Ukrainian volunteers. The training was organized by the Volunteer Training Center. For three weeks, the instructors will teach how to handle weapons, how to act during territory sweeps and street fights, and how to provide first aid. The training is free of charge. Both men and women can attend it.

• military
• Lviv

Lviv Defense Cluster (a non-profit organization) makes armored vests for children. They will be used during the evacuation. There are three body armor sizes for different age groups: 4 to 6, 7 to 10, and 11 to 14. Depending on the size, the vests weigh 2 to 3.5 kg. They can be equipped with GPS trackers. The body armor is designed to be donned and doffed easily by a child. The first 30 armored vests are being produced to be used and tested during evacuation.

• children
• Lviv

The veteran Mykhailo Yurchuk is the first in Lviv to get a bionic prosthetic arm. He lost his arm and leg in Kharkiv Oblast this spring, but today he can move his fingers again. Esper Bionics, a Ukrainian manufacturer, provided the artificial bionic arm for Mykhailo. It was attached by the NEZLAMNI National Rehabilitation Center of Lviv’s First Healthcare Association. Now, Mykhailo is learning to use his artificial arm and regrets that this dream has not yet come true for many other unbroken Ukrainians like him.

Because of this, a charitable project, Prosthetics for the Unbroken, was started to provide modern bionic artificial limbs to at least fifty Ukrainians. To do so, UAH 100 million needs to be raised.

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• doctors
• military
• Lviv

Samples of individual rations developed for the Armed Forces of Ukraine developed by RAZOM and FEST companies will be demonstrated in Media Center Ukraine. The developers called their individual ration for extreme conditions Kosmichna Yizha (Space Food). It is on par with food kits used by the world’s leading armies.

• food
• military
• Lviv

A bear named Bakhmut by volunteers was left in a private home in Donetsk Oblast in the area of fierce combat. Ukrainian soldiers found it in an enclosure with a damaged roof. The bear was exhausted and under extreme stress. The Ukrainian soldiers fed the animal until the volunteers came to pick it up.

They brought Bakhmut to the Domazhyr Bear Sanctuary in Lviv Oblast, where a team of specialists will care for the animal.

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• military
• Lviv

On September 10, Plast members Nazar Kiryk and Vlad Deliatytskyi will run 133 km along the road from Lviv to Ivano-Frankivsk. They will start from Lviv’s Stryiskyi Park.Their goal is to raise UAH 1,000,000 for a Marine unit. They will use the funds to buy drones that will help get intelligence about the foe’s movements and deployment.

Earlier, Nazar Kiryk, a Plast member, ran 654 km in 31 days to raise UAH 270,000 for a drone for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

• volunteers
• Lviv

The Lviv Defense Cluster, Run Ukraine, and ProBig running club initiated the international charitable online Run to 100,000 Bulletproof Vests to raise funds and attain the first operational goal of the Lviv Defense Cluster by providing 100,000 armor vests for the defense forces of Ukraine.

Each participant of the Run to 100,000 Bulletproof Vests will be awarded a unique armor steel medal made of the balance of armor plates being the main protective element in the body armor used by the Ukrainian soldiers.

The Lviv Defense Cluster brings together specialists from defense industry plants, volunteers, and production facilities from all over the country to supply high-quality, trusted bulletproof vests. It owns a lab to test its finished products. Overall, more than 80,000 armor vests have been produced by the LDC after the start of russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine.

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• Lviv