Stories
The Shelter project: assistance to internally displaced people
Few could have predicted the development of events at the end of February when Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The things the world witnessed were a complete shock to civilized hum…
Starting from scratch, twice. How an entrepreneurial couple from Luhansk…
In 2014, after the initial outbreak of the war in eastern Ukraine, Olena, her husband and their young son were forced to leave their home in Severodonetsk. But in 2017 the family decided to return….
Dentistry without pain: How a unique dental clinic in Mykolaiv is surviv…
“On February 24, we woke up to the sound of explosions – we live near a military airfield. We immediately cancelled all appointments in our dental clinic, because we had no idea what was going on. …
EU4Skills: Better Skills for Modern Ukraine teaches partnership and unity
“The EU continues its support to Ukraine through all of our projects. EU4Skills is one of our programmes which cover the most crucial emergency needs of IDPs. In cooperation with our Member States …
EU4Business and EBRD assist Ukrainian wine producer in times of war
Vitalii Ukrainets remembers the day Russia invaded Ukraine as clearly as anyone. He was on holiday with his wife, Yuliya, and knew immediately he had to get his mother and two children out of Odesa…
MARTA gets an “A”
In 2021, a development team of the medical chatbot from Mariupol ‘Open Data Lab – Ukraine’ won the competition of civic tech instruments ‘Act to connect’ from the Eastern Europe Foundation (EEF), f…
Bridges of Trust Serve People
In September 2021, Kyiv hosted a plenary gathering under U-LEAD’s initiative ‘Bridges of Trust’ where representatives of 16 Ukrainian and 11 Slovenian municipalities shared experiences of local sel…
New mobile services for elderly in remote areas of the Starobilsk community
In remote villages, single elderly people and people with disabilities lack elementary handyman’s services, such as help with mowing the grass, sawing firewood, removing snow, making minor repairs …
Moms and dads as one team: EU supports development of Tatohubs
Tatohubs are clubs for dads, where they can communicate, exchange experience, get advice from various specialists, and spend some quality time with their kids. As of the end of 2021, there were 12 …
“European” bicycles as a way to fight isolation of the old and vulnerable
3.4 million people continue to live in the populated areas located along the dividing line in the East of Ukraine, requiring humanitarian aid. A large number of them are elderly people that also re…
EU helps civilians and military establish dialogue in the communities af…
The Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC) oversees the establishment of the dialogue between the military and the civilian residents of the front-line communities in Donetsk Oblast as a part of …
How R/V Belgica became Borys Aleksandrov
The distance from the Zeebrugge, Belgium to Odesa, Ukraine is 8,600 km. The journey of Belgica to its new home ran across the North Sea, the Atlantic, the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea. The t…