Themes by tag: volunteers

The Ukrainian-Israeli medical volunteer mission FRIDA Ukraine is currently helping those affected in Kherson region.

The mission mobilized efforts to:

– provide primary and secondary medical care to victims,

– evacuate victims in need of medical assistance to hospitals,

– organize volunteer groups to help with humanitarian and logistical issues.

Very soon, additional 35 specialty physicians will join the team of volunteers to provide high-quality secondary care to everyone who needs it.

Journalists are invited to cover the work of medical volunteers. Accreditation is required. 

• casualties
• doctors
• volunteers

Representatives of the animal protection organization “UAnimals” are rescuing animals that suffered as a result of russians blowing up the Kakhovka HPP dam. (There are frightened and abandoned pets).

Over the past day alone, animal activists and concerned citizens have evacuated more than a hundred animals from flooded areas.

In addition, the day before, “UAnimals” launched a series of single-person pickets under the slogan “russia is killing the planet.”

• animals
• russian crimes
• volunteers
• Kherson

Volunteers of “Brave to Rebuild” project announced that they were collecting essential items for the people affected by the occupiers’ blowing up the Kakhovka HPP dam (disposable tableware, food, power banks, etc.). Rescuers also need help: inflatable boats, underwater cutting tools, etc. Tomorrow, June 8, volunteers will take the collected aid to Kherson.

Journalists are invited to see how people donate aid in Kyiv and bring essential items.

• casualties
• volunteers
• Kherson
• Kyiv

The Dnipro city is preparing to welcome the victims of the occupiers’ explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant and to resettle them in shelters. Those affected will be provided with food and other necessities.

Journalists can look firsthand at the preparatory process to receive people underway. 

For reference: Charitable organization «Charitable Fund: Revival of Ukraine!» and the “Institute for the Promotion of Public Initiatives” Public organization are helping the victims.

• casualties
• russian crimes
• volunteers
• Dnipro
• Kherson

Bohdan Logvynenko is currently preparing to go to the Kherson region to help those affected by the flooding caused by the explosion of the Kakhovka HPP by Russian troops. He is also gathering volunteers for the humanitarian mission online.

For reference:  Bohdan Logvynenko is a journalist and, writer, founder of Ukraїner (a socio-cultural multimedia project of Ukrainian studies based on the results of his own expeditions).

• volunteers
• Kherson

Oksana Pohomii, a volunteer and a Kherson City Council member, waited for the city to be liberated from the Russian invaders throughout the occupation. She also helped those who were going through hard times with her. She even managed to post videos from the occupied city.  Now Oksana Pohomii continues to stay in Kherson, ready to talk to the media about the mood of the city, people’s self-organization, readiness for evacuation, etc.

• volunteers
• Kherson

Media Center Ukraine – Ukrinform to host an event dedicated “Culture vs. War” project about Ukrainian artists at war and the first documentary film about the ANTYTILA band release

Speakers:

• Iryna Borovets, Director General for Public Diplomacy and Communications Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
•  Marco Ferraro, program manager at the EU Delegation to Ukraine
•  Andrii Rizol, project producer
•  Alina Krasnianska, executive producer of the series of documentaries

•  Taras Topolia, the “Antytila” band leader
•  Serhii Vusyk, the “Antytila” band manager and musician
•  Dmytro Zholud, the “Antytila” band guitarist

In-person attendance of all participants.

The Culture vs. War project tells the world about the values of Ukrainian culture through the stories of artists who left their everyday lives and creative ambitions to defend the country. A key component of the project is a series of documentaries where Ukrainian musicians, filmmakers, writers, photographers, and other cultural figures are the main protagonists telling about this war through their own stories and memories.

Accreditation is mandatory. 

• culture
• military
• volunteers
• Kyiv

Kateryna Semenyuk from Lutsk became a volunteer and military chaplain after russia’s full-scale invasion. At first, Kateryna helped to collect aid for Ukrainians from abroad, then she began making trips to the de-occupied territories. And now she regularly visits the frontline. With her husband Serhii, Kateryna is raising five children, the youngest son, Luka, was born on February 24, 2022, the day when russia began its full-scale invasion.

For reference: Military chaplains are priests who combine their ecclesiastical rank with other activities. A chaplain can be a citizen of Ukraine with a higher theological education who is a part of clergy of a church or religious organization registered in Ukraine. They must also obtain a mandate from their own church for the right to perform chaplaincy.

• religion
• volunteers

Building Ukraine Together NGO in cooperation with military personnel of the 126^th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade is organizing a camp to set up the Military Leadership Center in Odesa. In June and July, 150 volunteers from all over the country will work in the camp. First volunteers are expected to arrive on June 4.

The Military Leadership Center is to become a space for informal education of current and future officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In particular, military management, command formation, military history and cyber security will be taught there. The military of NATO countries, Israeli officers and representatives of combat units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are to be involved in the work of the Center.

• reconstruction
• volunteers

The independent volunteer art collective Spilka started drilling a well in the village of Korolivka, Makariv district, Kyiv Oblasts, on May 30. This village was heavily damaged during the fighting in February-March 2022. The drilling of the well is one of the stages of the project to help the village community: the hospital reconstruction, partially damaged by explosions, was the project’s first phase. Another stage will be constructing a bomb shelter at the Korolivka Lyceum. Currently, students cannot attend the institution having no shelter.

For reference: Spilka is an independent volunteer collective of artists based in New York, Paris and Kyiv. Spilka’s activities are focused on raising funds through artistic, cultural and sporting events in the cities of its main base.

• culture
• reconstruction
• russian crimes
• volunteers
• Kyiv