Projects

“We want to know what our future will look like.” On the Ukrainian Youth Manifesto

16.06.24

The war has profoundly affected the lives of Ukrainian youth. Some have lost their home, loved ones, or friends. Others were deprived of their familiar environment and opportunities to learn, grow, and plan their future. Instead, young people learn to survive amidst Russia’s full...

Young Diversity Ambassadors and Global Platforms

01.05.24

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. — Henry David Thoreau, “Walden; or, Life in the Woods” Since 2019, the program “Young Diversity Ambassadors” (YDA) has encouraged people to begin their journey in ...

Young Diversity Ambassadors. The program has its start and no ending

16.10.23

In late August of 2023, young diversity ambassadors gathered in Ivano-Frankivsk to meet each other, discuss the results of their projects, and exchange experiences. It could also be said, “to celebrate the finish of the program”, but it is not correct. Yes, the projects are reali...

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

30.08.23

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 w...

“Act and Change” Was a Boost

28.08.23

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. Th...

Young Diversity Ambassadors. What Is Ours And What Was Imposed on Us

28.08.23

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 youn...

Changes Start from Awareness. Young Diversity Ambassadors and Their Projects

16.08.23

The Young Diversity Ambassadors program is now at its crucial moment. So far, participants have been studying. They took part in trainings, visited different regions in Ukraine to exchange experience. They came together in teams to plan how to change the world for the better and ...

Path to the Future

17.07.23

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 an...

Young Diversity Ambassadors – from training to the action plan

10.07.23

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...

Support that makes one more resilient

31.05.23

Ukrainians were fleeing the war-torn cities, trying to save their lives. Some had time to think it over and pack a bag, while others just ran out the door to get a bus or train and move as far from the war as possible. People had to start from scratch at new, safer places. They h...