Cooperation News
In Kharkiv, six medical facilities were opened after a major reconstruction. Major repairs of buildings lasted from 2018-2019 and included the replacement of roofs, windows, heating systems, lighting, water supply and electricity. This became possible due to UAH 53.8 million of long-term loans with low interest rates from the European Investment Bank within the Ukraine Early Recovery Programme. Read more
Between 2014 and 2018, the European Union and its Member States have contributed over EUR 677 mln in humanitarian and early recovery aid. The EU addresses the needs of people in the areas directly affected by the conflict, the internally displaced people and refugees who have fled the conflict areas, and the returnees. EU-funded humanitarian projects include assistance with food and water, providing and repairing shelter, protection activities, health assistance, education in tackling emergencies, demining activities and distribution of essential household items. Read more
In 2016, two residents of Alushta, researchers of the Crimean Natural Reserve moved from Crimea to Kakhovka in the Kherson region. Iryna Mamrotska and Olena Burziieva decided to start it from scratch. And if in Crimea they once explored trees and insects, they are now cooking dishes of the Crimean Tatar cuisine and implementing their own mini-business project. They are happy with their business. They bake 400 pirozhki, yantiks and chebureks each every day. Read more
Thorns keep getting into boots, burrs stick to legs. The fragment protection visor gets in the way, constantly sliding down from the head: it’s heavy, and it doesn’t stay in place on the face when you are not used to it. Keeping fast pace, we traverse a hilly terrain, trying not to fall behind the four people carrying a stretcher and the paramedic. The team is training to evacuate a wounded deminer: the medical vehicle is waiting on a clear site, and we are walking to it on the crispy grass among different-color spikes. Read more
Ukrainian Army introduces new standards for the protection of the civilian population. From January this year, a team for collecting and summarizing information on casualties or injuries among civilians has begun its work in the conflict zone in Donbas. The team’s goal is not just to record such cases, but also to analyze this information. This will help prevent such losses in the future. Read more
Even if a woman wants to leave her husband who beats her, she often has no place to go. There are few shelters, and the state-owned ones have serious restrictions. Our story is about one of such shelters in Kyiv Oblast – it welcomes everyone who needs protection, rest, rehabilitation.
– I suffered four types of violence, Ania says.
She lists: physical, psychological, sexual, economic. Read more
The first thing that Yurii asked to bring him to Kyiv from the occupied Luhansk was an old woodworking machine.
– Everyone wondered why i need it, and besides in a one-room rented apartment, he recalls.
Yurii Ovsianko and his family moved to Kyiv in 2014: his eldest daughter was 3 years old at that time, and his wife Olha was pregnant with twins. Read more
