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In Poltava region, a private ethnographic museum was turned into a shelter for refugees from Kharkiv. At the beginning of the full-scale war, the owner of the museum took half of the exhibits to Lviv so that the guests could settle in comfortably. Currently, the refugees are setting up an improvised kitchen and a small work area with a computer among the historic items that remained in the building.

A total of ten people have applied for shelter at the ethnographic museum since the end of February. In addition, locals helped them with food or clothes.

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• Poltava

Two Ukrainian ladies organized the ZSU Meet charity auction. One can pay for a meeting, a date, or even a professional consultation from auction participants. Among others, representatives of various industries and prominent Ukrainians joined the initiative.

 The third wave of the ZSU Meet charity auction will start on Monday to raise funds for Ukraine’s Armed Forces. The first wave raised UAH 79,000 for our military within a week. After that, more people decided to participate in the auction, and its second wave started on July 25. It is ongoing, with the plan to raise UAH 100,000 within a week to buy pick-up trucks.

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At the beginning of August, volunteers of “Repair together” project will once again organize a clean-up rave party with the DJs in Chernihiv region. Recently, they already dismantled the ruins of the House of Culture in the village of Yahidne to the sound of music. In particular, DJs played their sets inside the House of Culture destroyed by russian bombs, and about 200 people, instead of dancing, dismantled its ruins. 

For reference: volunteers of “Repair together” project help people rebuild houses damaged and destroyed as a result of the war. In addition, they organize communal work in villages, during which they help clean up the debris after the destruction in people’s yards. In addition, representatives of the initiative provide targeted assistance to those in need. For example, they can provide people with the necessary household appliances.

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• volunteers
• Chernihiv

Two friends organized a volunteer movement and furnished 50 empty houses for displaced persons in the village of Pancheve in Kirovohrad region. Tatiana Bosko and Vita Pankul cleaned, bleached, painted and hung wallpaper in old country houses with their own hands. After all, since the full-scale invasion, about 250 refugees have arrived in the village. Most spent a few days there and left, but some have stayed. About 70 families of refugees live here now. The friends are thinking about ways to provide heating for all the new residents in winter, because the houses only have stove heating, and firewood has become more expensive these days. But if necessary, they are ready to accept new residents.

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• reconstruction
• volunteers

At the start of russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine, Uliana and Vitalii stayed in their Bucha apartment for two weeks (without electricity, gas, water, and communication). Later, they risked their lives to get out of the russian occupation. Now the spouses who use wheelchairs live in Lviv and help people with disability. For instance, they evacuate people with spinal cord injuries to other countries and provide humanitarian aid.

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• Lviv

Nazar Kiryk, a Plast member from Lviv who runs a half-marathon daily to raise funds for a UAV drone for Ukraine’s Armed Forces, will visit Media Center Ukraine on July 26 at 1:00 PM.

In addition to his marathoner experience, he will talk about Lviv’s locations for running and share his professional expertise with all prospective runners. Furthermore, every week, he invites interesting people to run together, covering the stories on the web page of Lviv’s Plast group.

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• Lviv

In Odesa, volunteers launch a project to provide women on the front line with uniforms and ammunition aiming to support female defenders of Ukraine with everything they need for combat missions. For instance, the volunteers found superlight body armor plates weighing 2.7 kg (versus regular plates of 4.1 kg) at the same protection level. The foundation emphasizes that they can supply not only lightweight armor plates but also appropriately sized helmets, footwear and uniform, hats and gloves, specific medicines, backpacks, first aid kits, underwear, and hygiene items.

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• volunteers
• women
• Odesa

Ukrainian volunteers launched “RevengeFor,” a new platform to help the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The project will allow foreign citizens to order an inscription on any projectile that will fly in the direction of the russian occupiers. The developers of the platform are certain: foreign friends of Ukraine also want to help the Armed Forces defeat the russians, who have destroyed peoples and broken families’ lives throughout their long history. The funds from the orders go straight to the account of Come Back Alive fund. The minimum amount for which you can get a “revenge” photo is USD 500. The upper threshold is not limited.

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In Odesa, a plastic surgeon operates on injured people for free after a rocket attack on Serhiyivka. For example, the operation of the first patient who sought help lasted one and a half hours. She had a bone fragment removed and her eyebrows contours restored.

On July 1, the russians launched rocket attacks on the village of Serhiyivka in Odesa region. 22 people died, about 40 were injured.

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• Odesa

Thousands of cats and dogs remained in settlements near the frontlines, from which most of the residents had left. That’s why Pavlo Vyshebaba, an animal rights activist and a fighter of the 68th Separate Jager Infantry Brigade, together with his brothers in arms, installed special feeders for animals in these settlements. “Yedyna Planeta” (one planet) NGO gave the feeders to the soldiers. Each feeder holds a week’s worth of food.

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• military
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