Listen, support, help: results of the Survivor Relief Centres’ work in October
Helping people in wartime is the daily work of our teams in Sumy, Kharkiv and Poltava. Despite Russian attacks, the Survivor Relief Centres continue to…
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Rental Market Initiative: a new home and a new start for displaced families in Ivano-Frankivsk region
We continue to tell how the regional teams of Rokada are implementing the Rental Market Initiative (RMI) program. In the Ivano-Frankivsk region, 24 internally displaced…
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…
Rental Market Initiative: dozens of internally displaced families in Khmelnytskyi region receive help with rent and utilities
Almost fifty internally displaced families in Khmelnytskyi region have joined the Rental Market Initiative (RMI). Thanks to the programme, they have been able to move…
Rental Market Initiative: A program that allows displaced families to settle in independent housing for a new start
The Rental Market Initiative (RMI) program, implemented by Rokada with the financial support of UNHCR Ukraine – the UN Refugee Agency in Ukraine, has helped…
Cinema as a reason to talk: women and psychologists analyze gender stereotypes at Vilna spaces
A familiar movie, a cup of coffee, and women who are nearby. This is how movie nights pass in the Vilna spaces. After watching, female…
Social adaptation in action: 75-year-old Ivan Palivoda from Zaporizhzhia has found his place in Zaplatyn
We continue to share the outcomes of the social adaptation project implemented in the Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne, Volyn, Bukovyna, Khmelnytskyi, and Zhytomyr regions. This time,…
«Social adaptation can be successful when a person has access to comprehensive support and actively participates in solving social issues»
Valentyna Kovardinova and her son moved four times over the past year before they could find safe housing. Due to Russian shelling, the family had…
Professional self-fulfilment during the war: advice for women from VONA Hub career advisers
The war has changed the labour market, and women feel it perhaps most acutely. Some have lost their homes and are starting over in a…
First step to independence: Social adaptation programme helps displaced woman integrate in Ternopil
Normal life in the village of Prosyana in the Dnipro region had to change in a single day. When their home ended up in a…
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…
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…
VONA Hub presents Career Navigation interactive career counselling tool
High-quality career services are born where expertise, partnership, and modern tools combine. It was around this idea that the presentation of an interactive career counselling…
Rokada helps internally displaced Ukrainians adapt to new communities
Rokada teams in eight regions help internally displaced Ukrainians of all ages integrate as best as possible into new communities to start an independent life.…
Rokada helps internally displaced families cover the cost of renting housing
In five regions – Volyn, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne, Ternopil and Khmelnytskyi – the Foundation’s teams are implementing a project that helps internally displaced families cover the…
Rokada joins the Ukraine Recovery Conference: outcomes of the event
This year, the Ukraine Recovery Conference was held for the fifth consecutive time, bringing together more than 7,000 participants, including heads of state and government,…
How VONA hubs help women transform their lives
Nearly 150 women have gained new vocational skills through VONA hubs this year. The centers operate across 10 cities, offering tailored career counseling, psychological support,…
Supporting children from frontline regions: the “Girls’ League of Unity” football tournament took place in Kyiv
The Rokada Charitable Foundation and the Ukrainian Association of Football held the fourth annual football tournament for children from socially vulnerable groups. The programme ran…
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.…
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…
We dream of a house with a vegetable garden next to it: a large family from Donetsk region is building a life in Kirovohrad region
The Lavryk family, who are raising seven children, evacuated from near Bakhmut in Donetsk region to Oleksandriia in Kirovohrad region in 2022. At the time,…
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…
Veteran support ecosystems: Vinnytsia, Cherkasy and Kyiv regions
Within the project “Social Cohesion and Reintegration of Veterans in Ukraine”, the Open Space for Community Development NGO from Vinnytsia region has been able to…
Spaces of support: the experience of veteran reintegration in Vinnytsia and Letychiv
Last autumn, veteran organisations from Vinnytsia and Letychiv became two of the twenty participating organisations in the project “Social Cohesion and Reintegration of Veterans in…
Veteran organisations of Ivano-Frankivsk region: how pain turns into action
Ivano-Frankivsk region is a place where the veteran movement is taking shape not only as a response to the war but as a deep attempt…
Active and visible: how veteran organisations in Kharkiv region are developing
The Valky Union of War Veterans and the Veritas Spes + Ukraine Charitable Foundation are participants in the project “Social Cohesion and Reintegration of Veterans…
Irpin and Khmelnytskyi: change for veterans and their families
We continue our series about Ukrainian veteran organisations taking part in the project “Social Cohesion and Reintegration of Veterans in Ukraine”, implemented by the Rokada…
The third children’s space was opened in the Chernivtsi region of the «Rokada» charitable foundation
Thanks to the efforts of the Chernivtsi team of our Foundation, the social room of art therapy started working in the Vashkivets territorial community. The…