Projects - STAN

Volodymyr. A Shelter in Volyn

16.11.22

Volodymyr is a Ukrainian border town in the Volyn region, 11 kilometers from the border with Poland. Since February 24th, it has been serving as a transit point for many Ukrainians who were fleeing the war and moving to the West. However, lots of people stayed in the town. Many o...

Hilfswerk International. Helping to withstand

18.10.22

Hilfswerk International (HWI) is a non-profit organization registered in Austria which provides development cooperation and disaster relief. It was founded in 1978, and since then it has been working in more than 30 countries on four continents. With all that, it stays non-bureau...

The active phase of the project “Emergency care and protection of affected internally displaced persons in Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees in Moldova” has begun.

23.09.22

Dear friends, we would like to inform you that the active phase of the project “Emergency care and protection of affected internally displaced persons in Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees in Moldova” has begun. Since the first weeks of a full-scale invasion STAN cooperates with an...

Bakosh. My cottage is not at the edge

23.09.22

Bakosh is a tiny village in Zakarpattia Region, not far from Chop. And Chop, as we in Ukraine were taught at school, is the most Western point of Ukraine. The distance from Bakosh village to the border is three kilometers straight. There are less than 1000 residents according to ...

People are different, values are common

12.08.22

A full-scale Russian invasion forced millions of Ukrainians to leave their homes. They had to pack their belongings and leave behind what was dear to them, without knowing when they would be able to come back, and whether it would be possible at all. This is hard for everyone, bu...

Kolomyia. A House Next to a Church

20.07.22

A large part of internally displaced people who came to Kolomyia, Ivano-Frankivsk region, were allocated in schools and kindergartens. Later, the city council in cooperation with the local community opened two shelters, so that people could move from the educational facilities. T...

Miculab. Small shelter — large family

06.07.22

When people who escape from war are trying to find a place to move and stay, quite often they search in Ivano-Frankivsk or smaller cities in the region like Kalush or Kolomyia. Not everyone is willing to move to a village. And how does the life of forcefully displaced people look...

Targeted Aid

20.06.22

Due to the full-scale Russia’s invasion into Ukraine, millions were forced to leave their cities, towns and villages, losing houses and families. The war deprived many people of an opportunity to work, and not all had savings. That’s why financial support from international NGOs ...

All in the same boat

26.05.22

Well before February 24th, the team of STAN NGO agreed they would make their office aka resource center open to the activists who need a space to work or a community of colleagues in Ivano-Frankivsk. The team agreed that in case of war, the office would become a shelter to host t...

Law in the times of war

19.05.22

Millions of Ukrainians left their homes to save themselves from invaders’ atrocities. People escaped from the shelling just to save their lives. Someone could think in the circumstances of a full-scale war a legal framework could disappear. In fact, it became even more necessary....