Initiative name: "Improving living conditions, leisure and education of IDPs from 6 to 86 years old"
Residents of the hostel on the street Orlyka in Chernivtsi, which is mainly women and children, received a micro-grant for the purchase of kitchen, sewing and computer equipment, repair of showers and conducting various creative and educational activities for children and adults. Without any experience in this field, they managed to create and implement a grant application on their own. Similar examples prove that a sincere desire for positive changes, supported by perseverance and tireless work, is the key to success.
The war forced Yana Ferenchuk to leave her home and seek refuge in Chernivtsi with her children. They settled in one of the numerous shelters, where they met other IDPs from different parts of Ukraine. Here people found a roof over their heads and the most necessary things for survival. But realizing that this temporary housing became their home for a long time, they did not give up and, rallying, decided to take steps to improve living conditions on their own.
Thanks to participation in our project, the initiative group:
* purchased the necessary equipment for the shower room and the living room, as well as kitchen appliances to diversify the culinary processing of products;
* purchased office equipment to facilitate children's studies;
* installed a filter so as not to spend money on the purchase of drinking water;
* organized children's creative classes, computer literacy workshops, needlework evenings for the elderly in the space renovated by benefactors.
The coordinator of the initiative group is a seamstress by profession, so using the purchased equipment, she helped those who wanted to independently make the necessary sets of bed linen, towels, and repair clothes. Most of the residents of this dormitory for IDPs are elderly people, and many of them expressed a desire to learn how to sew on the purchased machines.
We are sincerely happy with the progress of this initiative, because it helped people who found themselves in difficult life circumstances due to the war to improve their lives on their own, acquire new useful skills and believe in their own strength.
