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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Supporting residents of frontline communities in winter: Rokada launches a new project in three regions
The project, supported by Medair and the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund, aims to help residents of Sumy, Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions cope not only with the…
“I hope that one day I won’t have to be so strong” – 18-year-old Nadiia shares how she started a new life
In over a year of work at Rokada’s regional office in Kropyvnytskyi, social worker Alla Andrusevych has supported more than a hundred internally displaced families.…
Rokada helped a large family escape violence
Safe housing, psychological support and legal protection – this is the help Rokada provided in Sumy region to a large internally displaced family that had…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Community visits, training for colleagues and everyday support: how the Survivor Relief Centres worked in September
The Survivor Relief Centres in Sumy, Kharkiv and Poltava continue their work as part of the cooperation between the Rokada Charitable Foundation and UNFPA, the…
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,…
Not left alone with misfortune: Rokada supported a family from the Sumy region who lost their home due to a Russian drone
Just over half a year ago, the Rybalchenko family lived in the village of Stetskivka, Sumy region. They had their own house, a car, and…
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…
«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…
They left for a few weeks but stayed forever: Rokada helped a family from the Luhansk region successfully adapt to the Rivne region
The story of the Obukhovskyi family from the Luhansk region is tragic yet hopeful. Ostroh, a small town in the Rivne region, became a new…
In Kharkiv, Rokada helps children recover from mine-explosive injuries
Severe injuries, surgeries, and prolonged rehabilitation—this is the reality for children whose lives have been changed by Russian shelling in many frontline regions, including the…
In Vilna Spaces, women and girls regularly receive motivational trinkets
In each of the seven Vilna spaces managed by Rokada specialists, women and girls receive not only psychological support, consultations, learning opportunities, and a community…
Inclusive solutions: Rokada continues to equip shelters for internally displaced Ukrainians in Zaporizhzhia
The Rokada Charitable Foundation has completed the renovation of a living space for people with reduced mobility at a shelter in Zaporizhzhia. The four refurbished…
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…
Social accompaniment of Rokada in action: daily care for those who lost home
When someone loses their home and documents, finding themselves alone in an unfamiliar city, navigating the new reality can feel overwhelming. That is when social…
Being in the ‘here and now’: How Rokada psychologists help evacuees return to life
Psychologists are among the first to welcome Ukrainians at transit centres in Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, and Kharkiv. Together with their colleagues, they accompany evacuees at every…
Social adaptation in action: Kherson region family managed to build a new life in Ternopil
Today, Nelia Kalinina’s family lives in Ternopil. This is more than 800 kilometres away from their native home in the Kherson region. From their past…
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…
For a retreat in the Carpathians, Rokada for the second time united veterans from Sumy region
The second retreat for veterans and their families from the Sumy region gathered participants in the Carpathians, for whom a few days away from daily…
Own business through support: women in Sumy and Kharkiv regions gain new professions in VONA hubs
The war takes away homes and jobs, upending normal life. Yet, it cannot strip away the will to act. Here are the stories of women…
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.…
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…
Need support? VILNA spaces for women and girls are waiting for you
Every week, from Wednesday to Sunday, the VILNA women- and girl-friendly space comes alive. It hosts support groups, consultations with psychologists, trainings, art therapy workshops,…
Kyiv under powerful Russian attack: since Thursday morning, Rokada’s teams have been supporting capital residents
On the night of July 2, Kyiv came under one of the largest Russian attacks. Shelters, metro stations, and residential complex parking lots were packed…
Already safe and in the care of Rokada: 70-year-old woman walked for half a day to escape shelling
A cat named Knopka is all that 70-year-old Mariia Tymoshenko has left from her past life. The pensioner was recently evacuated from the frontline town…
Family evacuated from Pokrovsk rebuilds home for children fleeing war
In May last year, 47-year-old Vladyslav and his parents evacuated from Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region to Krasna Polyana in the Kirovohrad region. The village…
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…
Ukraine’s resilience centers mark International day for the elimination of sexual violence in conflict
19 June marks the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict (CRSV). This issue remains one of the most painful for Ukraine,…
Two Rokada regional offices team up to help large family reach safety
Coordination between our teams in Dnipro and Khmelnytskyi helped a large family from the Donetsk region find a safe haven. A huge number of bags,…
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…
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.…
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…
The first internally displaced Ukrainians have moved into the shelter in Oleksandrivka, Kirovohrad region
Six women from Donetsk region have become the first residents of the shelter that the Rokada team set up last year in the village of…
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…
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…
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,…
Accessibility and protection: through a new project, Rokada is strengthening assistance for vulnerable groups in 3 regions
With financial support from the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund (UHF), the Rokada Charitable Foundation is implementing a new comprehensive project aimed at improving living conditions and…
Appeal from human rights and charitable organisations
Human rights and charitable organisations, including Rokada, draw the attention of state authorities, local self-government bodies and national and international partners to the need to…
Consultations, trainings and expert support: how the Survivor Relief Centres in Sumy, Kharkiv and Poltava work
Last autumn, the Rokada Charitable Foundation team, in cooperation with UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, launched a large-scale project to counter gender-based and domestic…
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…
Rokada took part in the presentation of the 2026 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan
On the threshold of the fifth year of the full-scale invasion, humanitarian challenges in Ukraine are only getting worse. Constant shelling, destruction of infrastructure and…
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…