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 in Belarus. When I turned 18, I started traveling to Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipro - to visit friends. At the age of 20, I decided to [...]
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. He consults volunteers, IDPs and charitable organizations, while continuing to volunteer himself. Bohdan is also studying for a master's degree. For Bohdan, the war began [...]
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 involved in volunteering. We are starting a series of short stories about these people. Stories of small people. Part 1, Vasylyna. Vasylyna is 21 years [...]
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 of the project... In particular, the day before yesterday Bohdan Zdanevych returned from an "unforgettable" tour (and every such trip leaves behind certain feelings) to [...]
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, Odesa, Luhansk, Severodonetsk and Kramatorsk. In just 2 hours, the children managed to learn a lot about musical instruments, open up, feel how the rhythm [...]
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 gathers representatives from all countries. The Ukrainian opera-myth "Ukraine Terra Incognita" became part of the opening ceremony of the conference. Ulyana Gorbachevska, Kateryna Smirnova, Olga [...]
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 - helping the frontline and rare to save lives. From the first days, part of our team went to the front with weapons in hand, [...]
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, sometimes involving several organizations in their movement and sometimes none, building whole projects on trust and leadership of the activists’ network involved. Volunteer networks have [...]
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 of Russia from 24th Feb. They took part in the Højskoledag project 'Ruslands-Ukraine skygge' and attended Moesgaard Museum for a modern exhibition on war in [...]
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 Poland. As a volunteer team they are providing the basic needs for the locally dispalced persons in Lviv from north, south and center of Ukraine [...]
