Новини YMCA Lviv
YMCA Lviv: ANNUAL REPORT 2023
INTRODUCTION by CEO of YMCA Lviv Oleksandra Sorokopud We as international community at this very moment are witnesses of the destruction process in the international laws system. On Decemer 5 [...]
Friends from Scandinavia in Lviv
We were glad to host our friends from Scandinavia in Lviv! On October 20, YMCA Lviv had the pleasure of welcoming friends from Norway, Sweden and Finland from their [...]
“How I spent my summer”. The Story of the Little Bus
Do you remember that the Little Bus, which helps volunteers, lives in our organization? Together with his brother the Big Bus, he came all the way from distant Denmark [...]
Thoughts on peace. The voice of Ukrainian women
"Thoughts on Peace" is an initiative designed to tell the world about Ukrainian women: their vision of peace, their desire to protect themselves and their loved ones from destruction [...]
Day Center for military children
DAY CENTER FOR MILITARY CHILDREN AND VOLUNTEER FAMILIES A free day center was opened in Lviv for children whose parents are fighting and volunteering. The center is organized by [...]
Presentations of the Opera-Myth in Denmark
Opera-Myth "Ukraine - Terra incognita" continues to introduce people in different countries to the unique treasure of singing culture - Ukrainian polyphony. In June 2023, the singers of our [...]
Volunteering round-up: June 2023
Every day we dream of victory. Every day we work to bring it closer and to save as many lives of our defenders as possible. Over the past month, [...]
Singing performance of Opera-Myth in Baia Mare
Opera-Myth "Ukraine - Terra Incognita", despite all the obstacles caused by Russian aggression, continues to tell the world about the beauty and power of Ukrainian songs. On May 31, [...]
We do not stop!
It happened so that lately we mainly talk about such activities of YMCA Lviv as master classes and creative meetings. Meanwhile, the war continues and our volunteer work continues too. [...]
YMCA Lviv: ANNUAL REPORT 2022
The experience Ukraine is currently gaining can answer the question as well as dozens of others related to war, survival, and life in general. Ukraine is currently waging the [...]
February 24
Exactly one year ago, all of Ukraine woke up to rocket explosions: a full-scale war had begun. Since February 24, Ukrainians instantly turned into the soldiers and volunteers and public [...]
Opera-Myth “Ukraine – Terra Incognita”. All Series
Ancient ritual songs, unique Ukrainian polyphony, free jazz, video art, new symphonic music, modern choreography, futuristic folk costumes - all of this is combined in a new unusual and exquisite [...]
The TV version of the Opera-Myth will tell the world about Ukraine
Young «Ukraine - Terra Incognita» produced by YMCA Lviv, will be released in video format and English translation to tell the world about the nation’s struggle, its heroes, and the [...]
Project to help volunteers during the war
In August 2022 our team with the support of KFUM og KFUK i Danmark and New Democracy Fund, started implementing a project to help volunteers during the war. Why did [...]
“Circle of Paradise” – “Na Vasylya”
Christmas holidays always carry in them a special meaning - it’s a story about the birth of light and hope, even if darkness reigns around. And now more than ever [...]
“The Circle of Paradise” and the role of art during the war. The story of Svitlana Fedieshova.
Svitlana is an actress of the Chernihiv Regional Academic Music and Drama Theater named after T. Shevchenko, the wife of a military man (her husband was a director until February [...]
Stories of small people. Part 4, Maria
Maria Kisil is a project manager at YMCA Lviv and the “evil woman”, as she says about herself In addition, Maria has been engaged in social activities for more than [...]
Stories of small people Part 3, Lesya
Hello! I am Lesya and I am 30 years old. I am the communications and SMM manager at YMCA Lviv. I was born and for my first 20 years lived [...]
Stories of small people Part 2, Bohdan
Bohdan Zdanevich is 26 years old. He is from Lviv, works as a lawyer at the "Law Craft" company. Since August, he joined our volunteer assistance project as a lawyer. [...]
Stories of small people. Part 1, Vasylyna.
At this moment, only 4 people work in our volunteer assistance project. 2 of them are IDPs. And each of them, in addition to working on the project, is also [...]
Window into “russian world”.
We continue to send humanitarian aid to the civilian population. As part of our project, we constantly send parcels with necessities for IDPs. But there is work outside the scope [...]
Music workshops for refugee children
On Friday and Saturday we held 2 magical music workshops for refugee children under the leadership of Ulyana Gorbachevska. We were visited by wonderful talented children from Kherson, Mariupol, Zaporizhzhia, [...]
Opera-myth “Ukraine Terra Incognita” in Denmark
From the 3rd to the 9th of July the world conference of the YMCA World Council 2022 was held in Aarhus (Denmark), which is held once every four years and [...]
The stories of our leaders at war
Through years YMCA-Lviv has united very valuable people. Since the beginning of russia's widespread invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the YMCA has received a key and top priority [...]
We support volunteers in war
Since 2014 volunteer networks in Ukraine have been formed on the basis of public movement and institutional experience of public organizations. At the same time they were free and mobile, [...]
Højskoledag project ‘Ruslands-Ukraine skygge’
Lat week our program leaders and volunteers visited KFUM og KFUK i Distrikt Aarhus to meet with YMCA youth and discuss the situation in Ukraine since the full-scale invasion [...]
Volunteering
YMCA volunteer center keeps doing important things on rapid humanitarian response. For the last three weeks our volunteers packed and delivered humanitarian aid from YMCA Berlin and private helpers from [...]
Youth Council 2022
In the turmoil of war we haven't manage to announce our newly elected Youth Council. 7 new members were elected on 23th Feb, just a day before the war. To [...]
Young Opera call for Volunteers!
If you want to be a part of team making a new Ukrainian art, join the Young opera now! We open a Call for Volunteers and you are welcome! [...]
PARTNERSHIP PROPOSALS 2021 & ANNUAL REPORT 2020
YMCA Lviv talks about how 2020 turned out for the organization. About the projects that were implemented, skills and knowledge that our youth received, partnerships and support… As well [...]
Laboratory of Social Projects 2020
In November-December 2020, YMCA-Lviv implemented the Laboratory of Social Projects supported by Lviv Oblast State Administration , project Youth Embrace (supported by SIDA) and the KFUM og KFUK i Distrikt Aarhus. [...]
Laboratory with Yaroslav Fedorchuk
YMCA Lviv continues training within the "Laboratory of Social Projects" supported by Lviv Regional State Administration, project Youth Embrace (supported by SIDA) and the KFUM og KFUK i Distrikt Aarhus [...]
Laboratory of Social Projects 2020
A Laboratory of Social Projects 2020 has started in Lviv in October 2020. The course is implemented by the YMCA-Lviv and supported by Lviv Oblast State Administration, project Youth Embrace [...]
Lemkovyna songs will be played on Antonych motherland
On 27th of November, there will be held a concert “Lemkovyna-Lem” in Lemkovyna village Novytsia, where Ukrainian poet Bohdan-Ihor Antonych was born Ancient Lemkovyna songs will be heard once [...]
The Young Opera “Ukraine – Terra Incognita”
Ukrainian artists will create the Young Opera "Ukraine – TerraIncognita" which combines in a unique way an ancient Ukrainian songs, symphonic music, free jazz, video art and innovative costumes. [...]
The “Myth of Ancestry”
We present the action «Myth of Ancestry», a song matrix for our Young Opera «Ukraine – Terra Incognita» The "Myth of Ancestry" combines ancient Ukrainian songs, video art and [...]
Way to the personal sound
Course based on Ukrainian archaik songs. The training is conducted by Uliana Horbachevska - a famous singer, director, teacher and researcher of the Ukrainian traditional song. The course is [...]
Video concert “Songs for Wassyl”
For the Day of Heroes, the YMCA Lviv and young Lviv singers prepared a video concert "Songs for Wassyl" dedicated to Wassyl Slipak and all the defenders of Ukraine. [...]
Partnership Offers for 2020 & Annual report for 2019
Oleksandra Sorokopud CEO YMCA Lviv Create a new organizational identity or revive those that are historically inherited? This is an issue for NGOs in Ukraine as [...]
MEMORANDUM: Young Opera “Ukraine – Terra Incognita”
The Young Opera "Ukraine – Terra Incognita" is to honor the memory of Vasyl Slipak and all the soldiers who have fallen for Ukraine now and in previous generations. [...]
Aarhus and Lviv youth was learning to love life
In winter time we all want to be a part of a joyful company. And we found it! Our lovely friends came to us from Danish KFUM og KFUK i [...]
YMCA Volunteers are teaching English for children from veterans families
Lesya Hutsuk and Yeva Chepil from the YMCA Lviv and their little and yet very serious students. Girls have started teaching ukrainian militaries’ kids English. [...]
YMCA Lviv launched the crowd-funding for young opera
The team of Lviv artists announced the beginning of work on a large-scale project - the creation of a modern opera dedicated to the warrior and singer Wassyl Slipak [...]
Young Council 2020
The YMCA Lviv is always open to transformation as new opportunities come along with changes. In our case, the wind of change transformed the organization's youth board. First of [...]
Training “My internal story”
“My internal story” – teambuilding at YMCA Lviv together with actors of Lviv academic theatre named after Les Kurbas Andriy Vodychev and Nataliya Rybka-Parhomenko. How to bring [...]
Young opera «Ukraine Terra Incognita»
Young opera « Ukraine Terra Incognita» is a large-scale project, which combines the Ukrainian authentic singing with modern academic and European improvisational music with a help of the new [...]
The exhibition the ¿sALON? of the Draught project
In November 2019 the project Draught hold the ¿sALON? exhibition aimed to promote young artists who aren’t applying for the official Vysokyy Zamok Salon, which is held by the [...]
Wonderful days!
That’s a name for summer festival which I attended in summer 2019. However, I even did not expect that to be indeed SO WONDERFUL. The festival gathered young people from [...]
Youth In Action. Germany, Oberhof.
This Autumn I had an opportunity to be a part of the learning mobility program ‘Participation! Lets be the part of the European youth strategy!’ which took place in Oberhof, [...]
The performance Lemkovyna-Lem
This is a new and original interpretation of Lemky songs. The unexpected combination of instruments, the visual accompaniment of the sound by the video art, the combination [...]
YMCA from Kyiv and Lutsk in Lviv
What is the result exceeding expectations looking like??? Is when the idea comes to hold a visit between YMCA Kyiv and Lutsk members at YMCA Lviv! Meaning not just [...]
Our delegation at YMCA 175
Do you know what Brexit is? We know. It is occurred to us while helping the protesters, blocking Big Ben and jointly seeking way out of the underground ... [...]
Copenhagen and ducks
We’ve visited Copenhagen this summer! Our friends from KFUM og KFUK i Danmark launched a new local office in the capital. We were invited to stay and help them [...]
Volodymyr Berkych about YOFest
Political pilgrimage: to the heart of the European Union Perhaps every respectful president of the Young Council should move a long way to a «saint» political institution and go [...]
Summer travel tour: Carpathian roots
In YMCA Lviv`s tour you will visit two worlds: the European city of medieval origin, and the nature of folk traditions. Lviv [...]
Danish youth brought presents for children at hospital
We are learning how to make good projects from our Danish friends. Youth from Denmark worked for a couple of months to collect money for children in [...]
Youth Council accepted Development Strategy 2019
Young people take decisions! It was worth visiting just one of the strategic sessions on Saturday, March 16th. The task of the General Youth Assembly considers both discussing the [...]
Partnership Offers for 2019 & Annual report for 2018
We devoted three years of organizational life to finding and shaping our identity. Just as a small flower in the spring needs to be filled [...]
Solomia Dzhudzuk about Hong Kong
Why volunteer? Do you believe you can’t change the world without seeing it? Or maybe you just stuck in the rut and crave some exotic trip? Chinese YMCA of [...]
School of media literacy: start!
How to know that this news is not fake? Perhaps you should join the school of critical thinking and media literacy to learn how to differ manipulation from rationality [...]
Zirka Savka begins the project “Drought”
As a part of YMCA Lviv Art Club Zirka Savka will create a project "Drought" (Protyag). It will be a series of videos about young Lviv artists: reflections on the art [...]
Volodymyr Berkych about Youth Embrace
How Youth Embrace can serve each of us, both participants and key project leaders? Creating a place, where you can put your ideas into practice, build a team and [...]
External evaluation for child care projects supported by Läkarmissionen
In 2018 Swedish NGO Läkarmissionen (LM) together with YMCA Lviv team led by Oleksandra Sorokopud studied cooperation of nongovernmental child care organizations CCC and Blagodat located in Lviv. In [...]
What is Innovation at the YMCA?
text by Olexandra Sorokopud What is Innovation at the YMCA? When you are a part of world wide youth movement it seams that the innovations should happen now and [...]
Y-Residence welcomes to Lviv!
You have the opportunity to visit Lviv! In Lviv, the winter festive period lasts from December to February. What could be brighter and more cozy [...]
Students from Hong Kong about Lviv
What are the strange habits of Ukrainians? What should you see in Ukraine? What you should know about Eastern-european eating habits? What surprizes foreigners in Ukraine? Students from Hong [...]
Valeriya Fetisova about her trip to Palestine
Palestine is a wonderful country in the Middle East which I had the chance to visit in October this year. Even though I am interested in this region for [...]
Martha about Youth embrace program in Gothenburg
On December 15, 2018 in Gothenburg, Sweden was held a partners meeting among YMCA-YWCA Stockholm and Gothenburg with Ukrainian and Byelorussian colleagues within the framework of "Youth embrace" program. [...]
Enver Kaneev on the SALM program in Strasbourg
Want to know what stereotypes about Ukrainians in European youth, Is it possible to cook dumplings in the oven, and what should be the perfect international youth camp? Then [...]
Volodymyr Berkych about Roots for Reconciliation Project
#Be the PEACE you want What would you think first about Budapest – the former imperial capital of one of the most powerful state worldwide? Gorgeous landscapes, unforgettable views, [...]
Youth from the YMCA of St. Louis in Lviv and the Carpathians
In July, we met with American youth from St. Louis. Young leaders from the Gateway Region YMCA with their educators Greg and Shelley came to us. We have not [...]
Friends from Egypt in Lviv
This summer YMCA Lviv hosted guests from Egypt. We welcomed six boys and girls from YMCA OF MINYA with their leaders Adele and Dina. Our youth [...]
“Game about us” was written in a scientific article in Poland
The Lviv atrical initiative "Game about us", created for the adaptation of immigrants from the Crimea, was published as an article in the collection of monographs of the University [...]
Elvira Ablyakimova: ukrainian Change Agent at 19th YMCA World Council Conference
In July 2018, the XIX World Conference of YMCA took place in Thailand in Chiang Mai. 9 Change Agents have represented our country, including Elvira Abliakimova from YMCA Lviv. [...]
YMCA Lviv Council visited the partners of Aarhus
From June 21 to 25, Lviv students - graduates of the School of Social Leadership, who formed the Young Council of YMCA Lviv , visited Denmark. The youth came to the [...]
Danish youth bringing joy and happiness for kids in Lviv!
On May 24-26 2018 16 teens from YMCA Lystruphave Efterskole visited Lviv. Young people from Danmark presented Sizzix Big Shot Plus Machine for children at Western Ukrainian Specialized Children’s Medical Centre. [...]
Youth Board YMCA Lviv 2019
The General Assembly of YMCA Lviv on 5th of May, 2018 voted for creation of Youth Board to empower young people be change agents and make life more interesting. Morten [...]
One Million Voices. Youth Research Project 2
YMCA research “One million voices” will help to ingrate youth in the process of Ukrainians reforms. In 2017 YMCA Lviv participated in the international research “One million voices [...]
WOODMAN. Video about a project.
On January 14, Lviv hosted the presentation of the WOODMAN (Derevyanko). This is a 4-meter wooden puppet for street performances, created by war veterans to give joy to adults and [...]
Young school of Videoblog
Young school of Videoblog will make more at Ukrainian YouTube. On the 1st of March 10 young bloggers start their education at Young school of Videoblog in the frames of joint [...]
Social Leadership School
Social Leadership School To make public speeches in the TEDx format To develop social projects To make grant applications Take active role in youth global movement Each leader will [...]
“Voices of Freedom” – a film about us
Youth and totalitarianism. What is freedom? Why should you appreciate it? How to feel free in every movement, every sound and every look? How can one think of the [...]
Derevyanko appeared in Lviv
On January 14, Lviv hosted the presentation of the Derevyanko. This is a 4-meter wooden puppet for street performances, created by war veterans to give joy to adults and children. [...]