Since 24th February 2022 I became an IDP for the second time in my life. We had to leave our home in Kramatorsk and to move first to Izium, which was soon occupied. We had no access to our storage so we could not take anything with us. Then we relocated to Cherkasy oblast. From here, we look for possibilities to have our equipment shipped to us from Kramatorsk, as well as our stocks. If they are still on the spot we left them at. I keep in contact with all my employees. No one gives up. Everyone is ready to restart. We are all confident - there is no other way. We start exploring new markets. We know we can sew large quantities of any clothes so we hope we can be useful for sewing military uniforms. We are up for hire. There is a problem with the delivery of our working material nowadays (due to the lack of fuel and security restrictions). Yet we work on solving each issue, one after the other. We obtained a grant from USAID to purchase new equipment and to set up a new workshop in the Dnipro oblast. This will take about 3 months from now. If our Swiss-financed equipment is safe, we will have two production facilities in Ukraine. We are thankful for all the support we get and we should all work for the benefit of our country!
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Halyna DZHULAI
First deputy-mayor of Novoyavorivsk, Lviv Region
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Tetiana NALEZHYTA
Head of Department – intensive care unit for newborns at the Vinnytsia regional hospital, Vinnytsia
Mykola OVCHARENKO
Head of the Mental Health Center in the Luhansk Region, Rubizhne
Luhansk
Valentyna PANASIUK
Director of the milk collection point “Prushanka”, Kozyatyn district, Vinnytsia Region
Andrii PINCHUK
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Mayor of the Obiednana Terytorialna Hromada (Amalgamated Territorial Community) of Pyriatyn, Poltava Region
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Liudmyla ROSTETSKA
Deputy director of the Cherkasy Higher Vocational School of Construction Technologies, Cherkasy
Cherkasy
Valerii SELISHCHEV
Head of the Upper Kalmius Water Filtration Plant at Voda Donbasa, Donetsk
Donetsk
Vladyslav SEMENIUK
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Leonid TSENTYLO
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Kyiv
Yevhen YAROVYI
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Kyiv
Olha ZAIARNA
Masters’ graduate, “Conflict resolution and mediation” programme, Kyiv
Kyiv
Yuliia ZAIKA
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Kyiv
Tetiana ZIATIKOVA
Head of the department of infrastructure projects, energy efficiency and promotion at the municipality of Zhytomyr
Zhytomyr
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Kyiv