Baseline Reserach of the veterans in the process of reintegration and return to civilian life Research Methodology. For working with veterans in the process of reintegration and return to civilian life, it was important for the YMCA.Lviv organization to understand how veterans perceive their return, what difficulties have already arisen, and with which [...]
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 1994 Ukraine signed the Budapest memorandum where volunteered to agree on its non - nuclear status and destroy all nuclear weapons. USA, Great Britain and [...]
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 YMCA branches, which in those regions are called Norges KFUK-KFUM, KFUM Sverige, Suomen YMCA. First of all, we thank them for [...]
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 from our friends KFUM og KFUK i Distrikt Aarhus to help Ukrainians in difficult times. The Little Bus is smaller but [...]
resin someday the war will end and we’ll all revive at last (oh how we’ll revive!) we’ll heal like wounds, we’ll grow back like leg and arm stumps, like an eye’s empty socket, where it’s dark forever. we’ll call the dead. еach name. and they’ll all come. and how they’ll stare, until the [...]
Four generations of women in my family talk about peace What is peace for us? I asked my daughter, who is 6 years old. She said that peace will come when the russians "leave us alone." And for this, in her opinion, we need to "finally defeat them". I asked my grandmother, who is [...]
...Peace. A mutilated word that has lost all meaning due to its absurdity. It is impossible to put up with evil. What can a woman who has once again sent her husband to war write? More precisely, to the combat zone, because war is what permeates our country; in every corner the siren is [...]
Here's an exercise. Close your eyes and think back to your childhood. Imagine a sandbox, or a swing, or a blanket spread out for a picnic. It's a beautiful sunny day. You have new toys. And then someone hits you, touches you, says an offensive word, takes away your doll. Do you remember? It's [...]
In the timeline available to us as humanity, the war has not stopped for a second... Even our Heaven is at war with (not) our Hell... Archangels are holding swords everywhere in our temples... And you will not find a temple in the world where celestial beings are caressing the next generations in the [...]
Ten years of the marathon, a race that is the length of our youth and distorted happiness, a marathon that has bitten into our destiny and taken away the safety of our children, many of whom were born during the war, who play, grow, learn, fall in love in times of war... And we [...]
