Community specialists completed the interim stage of training at the School of Supported Living
The interim stage of training at the School of Supported Living has been completed in Lviv. The course was organised by Rokada together with the…
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Rokada set up three shelters for displaced people in Sumy
Rokada has equipped more than a hundred additional spaces for internally displaced Ukrainians in the shelters of Sumy. These are three facilities featuring comfortable rooms,…
In Kirovohrad region, the first internally displaced family prepares for a housewarming under the House in the Countryside program
The village of Velyka Skeliova in Kirovohrad region has sheltered nearly a hundred internally displaced families since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. Today, it…
Strength through unity: within the EMPOWER project, Rokada scales up aid to Ukrainians affected by the war
Support for Ukrainians, which has been provided in the Sumy, Kharkiv, and Dnipropetrovsk regions for three years under the EMPOWER project, is now expanding to…
In Sheptytskyi, Lviv region, a Resilience Centre renovated by Rokada has started its operations
Three dozen Resilience Centres are currently operating in the Lviv region, including a recently renovated one in Sheptytskyi. This space for comprehensive psychosocial support is…
Rokada has set up another shelter for internally displaced Ukrainians in the Zhytomyr region
Rokada teams in the regions continue to create new places of temporary residence for people who have lost their own homes. In the Zhytomyr region,…
LINK: Over 20,000 Ukrainians received aid from Rokada
Summarising the project which, within the LINK consortium, has helped to support families with children, older people, people with disabilities, single parents and guardians, as…
From community experience to state solutions: Rokada advocates for changes in veteran employment
Returning to professional life after service requires more than just job vacancies; it calls for accessible support programmes and proper conditions for adaptation. In practice,…
Chernihiv border region: Rokada supports residents with essential supplies
Novi Borovychi is about fifteen kilometers from the border. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, almost no one is left in the village. Tetiana…
In the Mykolaiv region, Rokada continues providing new professional training for willing participants
In the Novyi Buh Resilience Hub Community Heart, Rokada united willing participants for a free professional course on safe and healthy nutrition in educational institutions.…
Rokada continues to help residents of regions suffering from Russian attacks
Air attacks on Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Chernihiv, and other Ukrainian regions show no signs of abating. Every single day, cities and villages are shaken by…
“Respect, not pity”: in Poltava, community specialists learned to work with people who survived captivity
The team of the Survivor Relief Centre in Poltava held the training “Working with People Released from Captivity” for 25 veteran and demobilised person support…
Rokada nearby: the story of help to Maksym Dotsenko from Sumy
Tragic incident, which happened with Maksym Dotsenko 14 years ago, forces him every day to fight for himself and possibility someday to stand on feet.…
New life – new business: internally displaced family received a grant for own business thanks to the project Rokada
The Poslavskyi family displaced from Kherson region to Mykolaiv region. This happened in May 2022. Then Hennadii and Iryna, together with the families of their…
Home in the Village: First Results of Rokada’s Support
The government initiative A Home in the Village allows internally displaced Ukrainians to settle in rural areas free of charge. In essence, the project provides…
Rokada launches the project From Participation to Impact: Accessibility Councils as a Platform for Dialogue and Change in Chernihiv Region
Over the course of the year, the Rokada Charitable Foundation will implement the project From Participation to Impact: Accessibility Councils as a Platform for Dialogue…
Dignified living and legal protection: Rokada implements a new project in the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions
The project, which focuses on supporting internally displaced Ukrainians and communities affected by the consequences of hostilities, is being implemented by Rokada in the Dnipropetrovsk…
In Volyn, Rokada helps internally displaced Ukrainians to arrange homes
During two years, the regional office of Rokada in Volyn region repaired and updated more than a hundred houses for internally displaced Ukrainians from among…
From training to business expansion: How Resilience Hubs in the Mykolaiv region help bring business ideas to life
Oksana Tsoi owns a cosy cafe in Novyi Buh, in the Mykolaiv region. She is one of over a hundred participants in a project that…
From energy autonomy to psychological support: Rokada completed a project to improve medical services in the Yampil community
A project, aimed at strengthening the resilience of the healthcare system in conditions of war, completed Rokada in the Yampil community in Sumy region. The…
Support and decent living conditions: Rokada launches a new project for communities in southern Ukraine
Rokada is starting work on strengthening the protection system, mental health, and psychosocial support for residents of Ukraine’s southern regions. The initiative will cover the…
Officials from nine regions learn how to implement supported living in their communities
Kyiv and Lviv hosted in-person training sessions for nearly 40 participants of the Supported Living School. This session focused specifically on the professional development of…
Rokada will assist communities and internally displaced Ukrainians in finding, purchasing, and arranging housing in rural areas
All 17 of Rokada’s regional offices are joining the implementation of an experimental government project aimed at helping internally displaced families rebuild their lives in…
What’s new at Survivors Relief Centers this summer: “More and more people are ready to talk about what they’ve been through”
Throughout June and July, the Survivors Relief Centers in Sumy, Kharkiv, and Poltava did not stop their operations for a single day. Multidisciplinary teams were…
Rokada helps older people understand manifestations of economic violence
Rokada specialist Olena Tykhonova helps older people better understand the manifestations of economic violence. At the Sumy Regional Scientific Library, local residents learned how to…
Crisis room for survivors of domestic and gender-based violence launches in Okhtyrka
Backed by financial support from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Rokada has set up a crisis room in Okhtyrka, Sumy region, for survivors of…
Rokada implements project supporting displaced Ukrainians’ engagement in community development across five regions
Rokada will contribute to strengthening the capacity of IDP Councils in Volyn, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Ternopil, and Chernivtsi oblasts. In these regions, the foundation’s teams are…
Rokada installs new water well at IDP shelter in Kirovohrad oblast
Four years ago, 60-year-old Lyubov Bondar and her family, fleeing shelling in Toretsk in the Donetsk region, settled in the Kirovohrad region. Almost 30 kilometers…
Ukraine’s largest integration hub for people who have lost their homes opened in Kyiv
The project of the Kyiv City Centre for Comprehensive Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons (the Integration Hub) was implemented with financial support from the Kyiv…
Rokada installs additional water well at refugee shelter in Kirovohrad region
Four years ago, 60-year-old Lyubov Bondar and her family, fleeing shelling in Toretsk in the Donetsk region, settled in the Kirovohrad region. Almost 30 kilometers…
Rokada helped a community renovate rooms in a shelter in Kirovohrad region
Rokada’s regional team in Kirovohrad region helped the Ketrysanivka community renovate rooms in a shelter. Twenty internally displaced Ukrainians currently live there. They settled there…
Comprehensive support and a safe environment: results of the Survivor Relief Centres’ work over two months
Despite the growing number and scale of Russian attacks, the Survivor Relief Centres in Sumy, Kharkiv and Poltava continue to work actively. Multidisciplinary teams provide…
Strengthening the power supply and improving medical services: Rokada launches a new project in Sumy region
The Rokada Charitable Foundation team is implementing a new initiative to develop the healthcare system in the Yampil community of Sumy region. The activities are…
Rokada will set up safe spaces in schools in Sumy and Kharkiv regions
By the new school year, Rokada teams will set up safe spaces in the shelters of eight schools in Sumy and Kharkiv regions with the…
A third resilience hub has opened in Mykolaiv region
The “Heart of the Community” resilience hub has opened in the centre of Snihurivka in Mykolaiv region. The Rokada team has created the region’s third…
Rokada has started processing applications for cash assistance within the LINK consortium
The Rokada Charitable Foundation has started processing applications for cash assistance within the LINK consortium. The teams of the regional offices in Zhytomyr and Kropyvnytskyi…
IDP Councils in six regions received support for institutional development
For ten months, the team of the project “Voice of IDP Councils: Mentoring and Legal Support to Strengthen the Influence of IDP Councils in Communities”…
From practice to system: a forum of social facilitators took place in Kyiv
The national forum “From Practice to System: Models of Social Facilitation in Ukraine” brought together international partners, representatives of civil society organisations, social facilitators and…
Vinnytsia region: Rokada presented a study on the factors that influence people’s decisions to stay in their communities
Safety in communities, employment opportunities and the accessibility of social services are the key factors influencing people’s decisions to stay in the communities of Vinnytsia…
A question of accessibility: how the war changed the rules of life in Ukraine’s communities
The full-scale invasion has deepened problems of access to social services for citizens, in particular for people with disabilities and older people. They face a…
Rokada will assess Ukrainians’ actual access to social services
Together with the Office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Rokada is launching a project aimed at assessing the population’s actual access to…
Why is preventing gender-based violence important for Ukraine today?
According to estimates by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), almost 2.4 million people in Ukraine need services to prevent and respond to gender-based violence.…
In three communities of Lviv region, Rokada studied which services and innovations will help preserve human potential in wartime
In three communities of Lviv region – Drohobych, Boryslav and Novyi Rozdil – Rokada conducted a baseline study on which services and innovations will help…
Resilience Hub in Novyi Buh: new projects and grant support for implementation
The Novyi Buh “Heart of the Community” Resilience Hub in Mykolaiv region has been actively operating for more than a month and has already become…
Comprehensive assistance to people affected by the war in Kharkiv and Sumy regions: Rokada implements a new consortium project
The Rokada Charitable Foundation, with the support of the Italian humanitarian organisation Un Ponte Per ETS (UPP), is implementing a large-scale project “SPARK: Strengthening Protection,…
The Rokada team will create support centres for women
The Rokada team will create socio-economic support centres for women within the Women-Led Community Systems for Recovery and Resilience project. Three regions are currently being…
Rokada’s team in Sumy region will create one hundred and fifty places for internally displaced Ukrainians
UN Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine Matthias Schmale came to Sumy region to see the facilities where Rokada will create more than one…
“I sincerely hope this space will be useful for the community and bring many positive changes” – David Starke
The official opening of the “Heart of the Community” Resilience Hub took place in Novyi Buh, Mykolaiv region. The project was made possible thanks to…
In Mykolaiv region, Rokada helps people start their own seedling-growing business
At the “Heart of the Community” Resilience Hub, which Rokada built in Novyi Buh last year, professional courses in growing seedlings in greenhouses have started.…
Strengthening partnerships to protect people affected by the war: what has changed at the Survivor Relief Centres in a month?
As part of the cooperation between the Rokada Charitable Foundation and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, the Survivor Relief Centres in Poltava, Sumy and…
Rokada is implementing a pilot social adaptation project for internally displaced Ukrainians
Rokada is implementing a pilot social adaptation project for internally displaced Ukrainians in eight regions. The Foundation’s specialists will help shelter residents who wish to…
A shelter in Kirovohrad region is already welcoming its first residents
The first internally displaced Ukrainians have moved into the shelter that Rokada set up in Kazarnia, Kirovohrad region. The village of Kazarnia in the Subottsi…
Rokada, in cooperation with the Italian organisation CUAMM Medical Team, is expanding assistance to frontline communities
With the support of the CUAMM medical team, the Rokada Charitable Foundation is implementing the project “SHIELD: Strengthening Health and Protection of Vulnerable Communities in…
Investing in resilience: 20 veteran organisations received resources for institutional capacity
For six months, twenty veteran organisations from ten regions of Ukraine worked with experts and mentors to improve their institutional capacity. This resource was provided…
Rokada restored a building in Okhtyrka, Sumy region, damaged by Russian shelling
The building on Peremohy Street in Okhtyrka, Sumy region, was damaged by a missile strike in March 2022. The explosion damaged some of the two-storey…
The Rokada Charitable Foundation is strengthening community resilience in Kyiv region through a long-term project
The Rokada Charitable Foundation is implementing the project “Increasing the Socio-Economic and Psychological Resilience of Vulnerable Groups in Rural Communities of Kyiv Region” with the…
Rokada has set up a Resilience Centre in Ivano-Frankivsk region
The Rokada team continues to set up Resilience Centres in Ivano-Frankivsk region. The first one this year has opened in Kosiv. It was created as…
An alternative to residential institutions: specialists from 6 regions completed the “School of Supported Living”
At the end of December, the “School of Supported Living” came to an end. It was attended by local government managers and members of multidisciplinary…
The two-day forum “EMPOWER: Strength through Unity” took place in Kyiv
About one hundred and fifty representatives of civil society organisations took part in the forum “EMPOWER: Strength through Unity”, organised by the Rokada Charitable Foundation…
Strengthening the capacity of local organisations: the second wave of mentoring support begins
Almost thirty civil society organisations from frontline regions of Ukraine are taking part in the second wave of mentoring support within the project to strengthen…
Rokada continues the project to strengthen civil society organisations in frontline regions
The Rokada Charitable Foundation continues implementing a project whose main task is to improve the capacity of the civil society sector in Sumy, Kharkiv and…