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Red Brunch Donor Day is organized by Yanina Sokolova’s Fund. The Fund’s team encourages Lviv residents and guests of the city to make a conscious decision to donate blood, in particular, during the full-scale war. After all, donating blood is one of the opportunities to save the lives of Ukrainian defenders.

For reference: Since 2019, Yanina Sokolova’s Fund has been changing people’s stereotypes about blood donation by holding Red Brunch events. Since the initiative started, 1,743 people have donated blood, which made it possible to save 5,229 lives.

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• Lviv

“Community-Ridni” House was opened in Lviv. It is a unique space for orphans and children deprived of parental care. 20 students aged 16 to 23 will live there (including refugees). Teenagers will receive free, comfortable housing, they will receive help to get themselves ready for an independent life and fulfill their potential.

This place was created by the Children’s Service Department of the Lviv City Council together with “Ridni” Charity Fund. This is a municipal institution working in the format of a small group home with a special program that has no analogues in Ukraine.

“Community-Ridni” House will feature lessons on financial literacy and sessions with psychologists and coaches. There is a library, a study space and a gym. At this time, 5 students already live there. 13 specialists work with them, including social workers, psychologists, a doctor, a cook, an accountant, and a lawyer.

Journalists are welcome to learn more about the space and cover its operation.

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• Lviv

The news media representatives are welcome to attend the all-Ukrainian prosthetics training, which will take place at the Nezlamni Center in Lviv on December 6. The attendees will have an opportunity to film the process behind fabricating prostheses made by foreign specialists and interview them about their willingness to help Ukraine and the challenges our country faces in the field of prosthetics.

In order to train new specialists in prosthetics education and raise the overall level of those already working, the UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center has launched a country-wide training program. Foreign specialists will visit Lviv to share their knowledge with prosthetists from all over Ukraine.

On December 4-7, the training will be conducted by specialists from Fillauer LLC, one of the world’s leading orthopedics and prosthetics companies. Participants from Kyiv, Dnipro, Ivano-Frankivsk, Odesa, Poltava, Zhytomyr, and Zaporizhia came to Lviv for the training. These are prosthetists ranging from 3 months to 23 years of experience. 

During the workshop, special attention is paid to the manufacturing process of upper-limb prosthetics. After all, one of the main tasks for prosthetists is to determine the optimal functional purpose of artificial hands in cooperation with doctors.

Three patients of the Center have already been measured, and got their artificial limbs being made for them, within the training framework. At the end of the four-day workshop, these patients will be fitted with prostheses.

For reference: This year, 15 thousand prostheses have been fitted in Ukraine at the expense of the state alone, and experts assume that at least as many have been fitted at charity. However, while the number of fitted lower limb prostheses is measured in thousands, the number of upper limb prostheses is in the hundreds. At the same time, 30% of amputations today are of the hands. There are very few specialists who know how to “install hands”, so patients have to wait six months or more for a new limb.

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• doctors
• Lviv

As part of the charity campaign “St. Nicholas for Children in Need”, the Malteser Relief Service has received over 1,000 letters from children with disabilities and those war-affected. (Many letters came from children whose parents are in the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In particular, on the front line. There are letters from children whose parents are considered missing).

Children write that they dream of peace and victory for Ukraine. They ask the Miracle Worker to bring their parents home alive and healthy and to give the Ukrainian Armed Forces superpowers to win as soon as possible. In addition, they asked for the usual gifts from the Saint: toys, scooters, bicycles, etc.

As planned, the letters with the children’s requests are sorted out by the benefactors. They bring prepared gifts to the office of the Maltese Service (which serves as St. Nicholas’ residence for a month). Starting December 6, the presents will be sent to the children.

For reference: This year, Ukraine celebrates St. Nicholas Day for the first time according to the Revised Julian Calendar on December 6.

• children
• Lviv

In Lviv, war veterans who have lost their limbs are being rehabilitated through soccer play and have assembled a team called Pokrova Lviv AMP. The men have training twice a week on one of the football pitches. The team consists of 14 members from different cities of Ukraine.

The players on the pitch are lower-extremity amputees, and the goalkeepers are upper-extremity amputees. The field players use forearm crutches and play without prostheses.

Salesian priests and coach Bohdan Melnyk joined the sports initiative. According to the coach, they are currently working with the Ukrainian Association of Football for People with Disabilities to create a national football championship for players, including veterans, with amputated limbs.

• casualties
• military
• Lviv

American Craig is 76 years old. The man has been volunteering at the Lviv Main Railway Station for eight months. Together with the Center for Medical and Psychological Help Team, he meets evacuation train and bus passengers, helps IDPs get off the train and carry their belongings, and provides them with necessary information.

In addition, together with writers from Poland, Germany, and Ukraine, he is writing a book about the war and volunteers. He plans to use all the proceeds to help Ukraine. Craig is also learning Ukrainian.

For reference: The volunteer initiative of the Center for Medical and Psychological Help at the Lviv Main Railway Station has been operating since the beginning of the full-scale war at the initiative of the Lviv Oblast Military Administration and its partners.

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On November 18, “JAM FACTORY ART CENTER” in Lviv will officially open its doors to the public. In particular, exhibitions of modern art will take place here. The opening of the art center will feature “Our Years, Our Words, Our Losses, Our Searches, Our We” large-scale exhibition of more than a hundred works by Ukrainian artists, which a curatorial team consisting of Natalia Matsenko, Borys Filonenko, Kateryna Yakovlenko and the institution’s staff worked on for a year. An exhibition about the history of the “Jam Factory” building and the Pidzamche district will open in the old tower. This exhibition will become permanent. In addition, public spaces will become available on the territory of “JAM FACTORY.”

The idea of creating a new cultural center in Lviv was born in 2015, when philanthropist and historian Dr. Harald Binder decided to support the development of “JAM FACTORY” as a center of contemporary art. “JAM FACTORY ART CENTER” is located in a former industrial building, which was first used as a distillery and later as a jam bottling plant.

• culture
• Lviv

The FACE TO FACE mission of American plastic and reconstructive surgeons is coming to the UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Center in Lviv.

On November 12-17, a team of American surgeons, together with Lviv-based specialists, will conduct free consultations and reconstructive surgeries for the military and civilian Ukrainians who suffered due to the war and received face and neck injuries.

Specialists will include: plastic, maxillofacial and reconstructive surgeons, ENT physicians, orthopedists and ophthalmologists. The doctors have already selected patients for complex reconstructive face and neck surgeries. All surgical interventions and their time in the clinic will be free of charge. In general, 42 patients are to receive help as part of this mission.

Prior accreditation is required.

For reference: the humanitarian program was created in cooperation with the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (AAFPRS) (The Educational and Research Foundation) as well as Razom for Ukraine and INgenius organizations.

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• doctors
• Lviv

On November 1, Lviv will present the book “History is not without us: the formation of the movement for the rights of people with disabilities,” which was created by the team of the “Fight For Right,” NGO for the rights of people with disabilities, with the financial support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation. The book is the first in Ukraine to investigate the history of the formation of the public movement for the rights of people with disabilities through the stories of its 27 associates.

The people, whose stories are mentioned in the book, will take part in the presentation, in particular:

• Oksana Potymko, Executive Director of the Lviv regional branch of “Ukrainian Union of People with Disabilities – USI” All-Ukrainian NGO,
• Andrii Demchuk, Paralympic Games champion and co-founder of the “Accessible Cinema” project,
• Serhii Titarenko, major of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, military psychologist, who helps soldiers who have returned from the front,
• Maryna Holovina, the first volunteer of active rehabilitation camps in Ukraine, co-founder of the “All-Ukrainian Association of Persons with Disabilities “Active Rehabilitation Group” NGO.

The participants will also include:

• Yuliia Sachuk, Head of the “Fight For Right” NGO,
• Iryna Tekuchova, expert on the rights of people with disabilities, the “Fight For Right” NGO,
• Hanna Zaremba-Kosovych, researcher, Head of Community Building at the “Fight For Right” NGO and Concept Editor of the book.

Event Moderator:

• Tetiana Herasymova, Director of the “Fight For Right” NGO.

The book will be released in several inclusive formats: in addition to the full printed version, the book will also be published in an easy-to-read format for people with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities. The electronic and audio versions of the book will also be freely available.

For reference: the “Fight For Right” NGO for human rights of people with disabilities was founded in 2017 by people with disabilities themselves. The organization’s vision is a world in which everyone knows and respects human rights.

• culture
• Lviv

Lviv JAM FACTORY ART CENTER’s grand opening is to take place on November 18. It will host contemporary art exhibitions in particular. The art center opening will be followed by a large-scale exhibition of more than a hundred works by Ukrainian artists titled “Our Years, Our Words, Our Losses, Our Search, Our Us”, which was developed for a year by the curatorial group of Natalia Matsenko, Borys Filonenko, and Kateryna Iakovlenko and the institution’s team. An exhibition about the history of the Jam Factory building and the Pidzamche district will be placed in the old tower. This exhibition will become a permanent display. At the same time, public spaces on the territory of the JAM FACTORY will become available.

The idea of creating a new cultural center in Lviv originated in 2015 when philanthropist and historian Dr. Harald Binder decided to support the development of JAM FACTORY as a center for contemporary art. The JAM FACTORY ART CENTER is located in a former industrial building that used to be a distillery and later a jam processing plant.

• culture
• Lviv