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About the War and Post-War Rebuilding. Young Diversity Ambassadors in Bosnia and Herzegovina

This summer Young Diversity Ambassadors program participants visited Bosnia and Herzegovina to learn from the country’s experience of Post-War Rebuilding. What they have seen and heard, what they have eaten and understood – in this text.  Growing up After the war, the country will be reconstructed. There will be lots of construction work. More and more rehabilitation programs both for soldiers and for civilians will work. The economy will come back to its normal functioning. There will be new cinema, new literature, and new art projects that will rethink and reflect the war experience.   There is an essential inaccuracy in these words. The country cannot be reconstructed by itself, and buildings will not be built by themselves, the rehabilitation programs won’t appear out of the blue. It doesn’t happen b...
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“Act and Change” Was a Boost

When child-friendly spaces were founded in Nadvirna, Burshtyn, Lukavtsi, Kolomyya, and Vorokhta, they were aimed at creating alternative spaces for education as well as at creating safe spaces for children to spend time with benefit. Spaces to study, play, and meet friends. These spaces have become places of strength that gather active people around them, from the smallest to the eldest. There children and youth can learn how to implement their ideas and get that precious experience they can obtain only when people come together for an idea and work together. And in the end, you see it’s worth it.  The youth initiatives workshop “Act and Change” was founded by STAN NGO in partnership and with the financial support of the Czech humanitarian organization People in Need Ukraine. The program started with tr...
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Young Diversity Ambassadors. What Is Ours And What Was Imposed on Us

At the decisive stage of the Young Ambassadors Program, its participants implemented their initiatives in the framework of several defined topics. We’ve already written about them in a previous article.  Decolonization and thinking of memory for the future were the topics young people liked the most. This is not a surprise since Ukraine now is fighting for its independence and firmly as never before saying goodbye to its colonial heritage. It is rethinking its past, shaping new visions of the future.  The way we will be rebuilding our country after the victory depends on these thoughts. The reference points we would have and the values we would rely on. And the country we will finally live in.  From the foundations Tomorrow’s Ukraine is neither a manna from heaven nor a birthday gift from an auntie. I...
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Path to the Future

Since the fall of 2022, within the “Crisis Response in Ukraine” project child-friendly spaces were opened in four towns of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (Kolomyya, Nadvirna, Vorokhta, Burshtyn) and the village of Lukavtsi in Chernivtsi Oblast. CFSs are spaces where children can study and enjoy spending time. The first months were tough. While the renovation works in coming child-friendly spaces were ongoing, facilitators and psychologists worked with kids in the alternative spaces. Together with parents and kids, they created a warm and safe environment. Often, when Russia was attacking the Ukrainian energy infrastructure, CFSs worked without electricity and heating. In spring, the work of CFSs has normalized. Children are spending time now in the newly renovated buildings, they use laptops and projectors and ...
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Young Diversity Ambassadors – from training to the action plan

The Young Diversity Ambassadors program aims at helping Ukrainian youth to take the first steps in civic activism. Participants have already attended introductory workshops where topics of their upcoming work were introduced to them. They also visited their peers in other regions of Ukraine for experience exchange. After that, young people chose a field they will be working in and took part in several in-depth workshops. They dived into the topics according to their interests to design projects they will implement during June and July. Keystones The training took place at Khata Maysternya space in the Carpathians. At the beginning of the four-day session, participants had a chance to think about how the proposed topics correspond to their everyday life and their communities’ needs. After that, partic...
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Youth Voices from Ukraine About Post-War Development

This publication was produced within the project “Support activities of UNP EaP CSF in 2021-2023” implemented by the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting with the financial support of the European Union. Its contents are the sole responsibility of the NGO STAN and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union or the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting. The Ukrainian National Platform of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum (http://eap-csf.org.ua/) is a network of more than 140 non-governmental organizations in Ukraine that advocates Ukrainian interests within the framework of the Eastern Partnership. The platform is part of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum (EaP CSF). The Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum is unique multilayered regio...
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The facilitation kit “Open Dialogue for Peace”

The facilitation kit "Open Dialogue for Peace" was created by Yuliia Liubych and Yaroslav Minkin based on the book of Enver Juliman, "Reconciliation: Directions along the Way." It is designed to maintain meaningful events for International Peace Day in Ukraine and all over the World. This facilitation kit has been produced with the assistance of the European Union under its Eastern Partnership Civil Society Fellowship Programme. Its contents are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union. The methodology was tested in Ukraine and Switzerland in 2022 as part of the cooperation between the Youth Organization "STAN" (Ukraine) and Polit-Forum Bern (Switzerland) with the support of the European Cultural Foundation. The authors also conducted open Dialog...
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“Residence” is a project for Ukrainian youth

The residence is an out of project for young people, which is aimed at creating permanent connections, sharing knowledge and experience, and improving the mental state. Both residencies took place in the village of Kozary, Ivano-Frankivsk region. The participants of the first residency were 15 young people from different cities of Ukraine. Of them, 3 persons are IDPs, 10 are volunteers at the headquarters of NGOs or other initiatives aimed at solving war-related problems. According to the organizers, it was important to provide this space to people who need a sense of security, comfort, a place to feel relaxed and gain resources. More details in the report - Residence - 1 The aim of the second Residency was to unite young artists, volunteers and IDPs around the exploration of the village, as well ...
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COMICS “HOW TONYA FELL IN LOVE WITH ENERGY”

The comic book will be useful for young people who are hesitating whether to choose energy as their future profession. But not just a profession, but an activity that would combine perspective, importance, financial independence, curiosity and values ​of the modern world, which is developing so rapidly. The heroine of the comic is Tonya, a tenth grader. She sincerely likes to research energy, but the girl is convinced that it is difficult for young people to break through here. Especially for girls. Will Tonya be able to overcome her fears and doubts? The comic in simple language tells about the gas and electricity markets, the heat supply system, and renewable energy. And using Tony's example, he shows that there are more and more opportunities for young people, especially girls, in energy. Also read a...
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Your rights: what you need to know

The booklet "Your Rights: what you need to know” answers questions that are a concern for both Ukrainian students and foreigners, who study in Ukraine. In this booklet experts explain student rights and responsibilities in understandable language. They are not only relevant to organizing of the education process, but also living conditions in dorms and leisure of students. Furthermore, the authors pay particular attention to such actual issues such as nondiscrimination, inviolability and personal freedom. This booklet is like a “judicial ambulance”, which every student can use if his or her rights have been violated. It is intended to give a brief overview of the laws, rights, responsibilities and limitations of all people residing in Ukraine: in addition to a wealth of resources for further consultation. How...
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Studying amidst the war

Children have to study. But studying and teaching in the current situation in Ukraine is complicated. Even when students are in relative safety, when they have access to the internet and the ability for distance learning, the schooling cannot be the same as before the war. To explain the changes and needs of the educational process after February 24th, 2022, we address the experience of The Restless alternative school in Ivano-Frankivsk.  In the shelter On the first day of the war, The Restless alternative school was turned into a shelter for forcefully displaced people. People arriving from the most dangerous areas lodged in the classrooms. At the same time, the school did not cease the teaching process but made it completely online. Anyway, around one-third of the students happen to be abroad. And frequen...
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