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Students of the “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” University have started collecting used electronic cigarettes, spare parts of which might come in need for the production of drones. After all, the battery of an e-cigarette can become a part of the discharge system in drones for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Used cigarettes are collected on campus. In addition, an agreement has been reached with ROZETKA chain of stores: they will also collect e-cigarettes.

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• Kyiv

A mine safety app has been made available in Ukraine. It was developed by volunteers of Free Ukraine, a Swiss charity, with support from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine. Users can view a map indicating potentially hazardous areas according to the SESU and receive alerts when approaching an unsafe area. This app is important for people living in Ukraine’s de-occupied areas because russian invaders have left many mined areas there.

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On August 12-14, 2022, Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation will hold an exhibition of photographs by Dmytro Kozatskyi (call sign Orest), a photographer and head of the press service of the Azov regiment.

The purpose of the event is to raise funds for military aid for the soldiers of the Azov regiment, who continue to fight while their comrades are in russian captivity, and to remind the world about the defenders of Mariupol and their heroism. Along with 25 of Orest’s famous works, the exhibition will showcase his photographs from the Azovstal bomb shelters, which have not been published before. They were provided by his mother Iryna. Visitors will also be able to view videos that the defenders of Azovstal sent to their families right from the siege laid by the occupiers.

In addition, the three-day event will feature a meeting with relatives of soldiers of various units who were in Azovstal. It will be held on August 12.

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• military
• volunteers

Volunteers of Magic Moments community help the residents of Kyiv region to clear the buildings that collapsed as a result of the war. They have already made three visits to the region. They also helped to clean up the aftermath of the destruction and responded to the requests by locals to get the necessary appliances and furniture. Their next trip to Kyiv region is planned for the end of August.

For reference: Magic moments is a travel agency that organizes original trips in Ukraine and abroad. Both agency employees and tourists have joined the volunteer movement. Everyone is also welcome to join the charity initiative.

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• reconstruction
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• Kyiv

Jerzy Jurczyński from Poznań in Poland clears debris together with Kharkiv rescue workers. The 55-year-old man with 10 years of mountain climbing experience came to Ukraine two months ago as a humanitarian aid coordinator for a Polish charity. Now, he is the only foreigner in a team of Kharkiv steeplejacks. He cleared debris in schools, apartment blocks, and industrial areas ruined by the russian artillery. He also worked in Saltivka, the worst destroyed part of the city.

His wife and 12-year-old daughter are waiting for him at home. Jerzy will visit them in a week; after that, he plans to come back to Kharkiv and work with the rescuers till winter.

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• volunteers
• Kharkiv

José Andrés, the founder of World Central Kitchen, will give a briefing at Media Center Ukraine – Ukrinform in Kyiv on August 9 at 2:30 PM. The restaurateur will talk about the company’s operations in Ukraine and food aid to the Ukrainians.

World Central Kitchen is a non-commercial, non-governmental organization that provides meals to victims of natural disasters and various emergencies. José Andrés, a celebrity chef, founded WCK in 2010: together with his team, he prepared food in Haiti following the devastating earthquake. World Central Kitchen has been working in various cities of Ukraine since the start of russia’s all-out invasion.

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• Kyiv

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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