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 with the sun and water in order to make it through the snow, organizations in Ukraine need a reliable partnership and trust in order to [...]
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 Hong Kong has got you covered! They offer the exchange programme ‘Global Y Explorers’ with internship and volunteer opportunities for young people from overseas. This [...]
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 and propaganda from common sense. On 5 and 6 December YMCA Lviv together with the Lviv National University and the "Institute Republic" [...]
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 world between peers, we will show their pieces and workshops, mindsets and outlooks, things, that inspire and things, that annoy... The [...]
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 overall change yourself. My path begins with fulfillment of the values and global changes which SIDA propagates in the young thirsty [...]
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 the focus of the research were children from families in complicated life conditions, orphans and children whose parents lost their parental rights. Influences of Reforms [...]
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 then all the time. Is that so? If yes, then what kind of reflection and evaluation processes are going on to describe the innovation and [...]
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 than weekend in an ancient city? Lviv is a special city. Being at the same time traditionally busy and touristic, it keeps staying very comfortable [...]
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 Kong tell about their adventures. They hiked through the Carpathians, were in the Chornobyl Zone and even went to Christian summer festival. [...]
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 quite a while, I, it turns out, believed in many stereotypes and did not fully understand what was actually happening in this land. So, in [...]
