Cooperation News
Mykyta Kurylko is 25 years old. In 2014, he moved from Luhansk to Zaporizhzia. To provide for his family, Mykyta began selling coffee in a coffee shop attached to a bicycle at concerts, forums and fairs. In 2018, the entrepreneur won at the investment fair of the EU project “Bridging Gaps for Inclusive Civic Engagement” and received a grant for the development of his business. Read more
In autumn 2018, old and buzzing light bulbs were replaced in Severodonetsk school number 20 in Luhansk region. Instead, 250 LED-lamps worth almost a million hryvnias were installed. These and hundreds of other projects in the east of Ukraine are being financed by the EIB under the Early Recovery Programme. Read more
The satellite city of Kyiv has accepted about 4,000 internally displaced people. A joint project of the EU and the International Organization for Migration supports the local IDP relief center. Here people can get clothes and household items, talk to a psychologist, find work and a kindergarten or a school for children, attend courses and creative classes. Read more
Kateryna Lytvynenko from Mykolaivka, Donetsk region, with the support of the EU and UNDP, helps people in wheelchairs to freely move around the city. She also created a coworking space, where women, seniors and migrants learn to use computer and other gadgets. Read more
For the first time in 40 years, Myrnohrad city hospital is undergoing major repairs. The therapeutic unit has been already winterized, a modern X-ray machine has been installed, repairs of a surgery unit will finish soon. The city also plans to renovate housing for internally displaced people and a social center. The European Investment Bank finances these and hundreds of other projects in the east of Ukraine under the Early Recovery Programme. Read more
Olena Kushchenko, S.I. Group Regional Personnel Manager from Makiivka moved to Dnipro in 2014. Since then, she became a craftswoman making felt items, having already made over 160 of them and actively keeping a Facebook page. Olena speaks about the search of self and self-realization on the eve of her first personal exhibition. Read more
On December 5, a new Administrative Service Center (ASC) was officially opened in Sloviansk (Donetsk Oblast) after a month-long operation in the test mode. The project’s total cost is US 510 thousand, including 88 thousand dollars paid from the local budget. Read more
