Projects
A few weeks ago, as residents of the town “A” in the Donetsk region explained, pharmacies ran out of children's medicines and bottle nipples used for feeding infants. (They had not been cheap, even when available, and many mothers have no money.)
The situation in eastern Ukraine is forcing people to leave their homes, the men and women who are able to work are forced to look for jobs in strange cities, elderly people are forced to seek help from relatives, and children with disabilities are left to rely on people with a big heart who care enough to help.
St. Nicholas Day is a holiday the whole world knows. Like children everywhere, children in Ukraine wait for it impatiently every year. The way the holiday is celebrated in Ukraine can differ from region to region and from family to family. It can include going to church for a prayer service. It can include kids painstakingly writing perfectly formulated letters that include a catalog of flawless behavior in the past year and requests for a desired toy, book, a computer mouse or an iPad. It can include gifts of candy and oranges placed neatly under a pillow promising a morning of surprise and joy and the assurance that the sweet kid will continue to believe that St. Nicholas EXISTS. But there are consistent elements in any St. Nicholas Day celebration. Always there is an atmosphere of warmth; there are always preparations and there is always the possibility that a miracle will visit the children.
The first EMPR award for media support for the ArtilMaidan European tour in Paris and Prague received today.
More than one hundred citizens & guests of Prague have come to see PRoVOCation art to the central square today
Prague welcomes Art-project ATR&FACTS - PRoVOCation second time within a week.
NGO Artil Maidan is a team engaged in development and implementation of various art projects.
Official round table on this issue took place in Maidan Press Center today.
A club run by volunteers for the children of families dislocated from Donbas began its activity at the end of May, 2014. Currently 350 children, who as a consequence of events in eastern Ukraine have ended up in Kyiv, are under the care of the volunteers. Special needs children are cared for, as well. All through a very difficult summer the Kyiv volunteers
Patriot Defence is launching a medical battalion training and equipping project with the support of the Anti-AIDS Foundation.