Since 24th February 2022 My boyfriend Dmytro volunteered at once to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine. I and my parents, who are pensioners, went to Germany as refugees. There I regrouped and found enough strength to travel back to Ukraine within two weeks. At the border crossing I witnessed scenes of despair that will haunt me forever. I also experienced the tremendous help from our European neighbours, namely Poles. Later I learned that a former classmate in conflict resolution Artem Klimov died in the battle for Ukraine. In my opinion, one of the ways to pay tribute to our heroes is to keep on living and dreaming and making plans. In short - not to give the war a chance to take away your present nor to deny us our future. My life has changed. We married with Dmytro on March 19, 2022. I dived deeper than before into the practical world of peacebuilding. I now work as a regional representative of the network in Eastern Europe for the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC https://gppac.net/). Also, since the beginning of the Russian invasion, I have been providing specialized advice to the Secretariat of the Partnership for Ukraine. I will continue to invest my knowledge, skills and energy in processes that will contribute to the strengthening of Ukraine and Ukrainian society through the project potential of peacebuilding. This is very important for me because Ukraine is my home.
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Еsma ADZHIIEVA
Yesma Adzhieva, chair of the board at NGO “Alem” & Elnara Abdullaieva, PhD candidate in agriculture, dancer
Crimea
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Roman DIAZHUK
Organic farmer, owner of the Danube Agrarian, Safiany village, Odesa Region
Odesa
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Bohdan DELIUK
Doctor, General practitioner, Kalynivka district, Vinnytsia Region
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Halyna DZHULAI
First deputy-mayor of Novoyavorivsk, Lviv Region
Lviv
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Lina FYNIAK
Nurse-in-chief, Center for Primary Health Care, Veselynivska village administration, Mykolaiv region
Mykolaiv
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Kateryna ILKIV
Farm of Two Katerynas, Tukhlia village, Lviv oblast
Lviv
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Yurii KOTSULIVSKYI
Head of the Maternity Department at the Vinnytsia Rayon Hospital, Vinnytsia
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Yurii KURYLKO
Yurii KURYLKO, Deputy director of the Health Protection Department in Poltava Region & Ivan SHUMEIKO, Chief therapist at the Central Regional Hospital in Poltava
Poltava
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Viktoria MARCHENKO
Viktoria Marchenko, head of the Department of education of the Krasnosilska community, Odesa Region; Diana Karpenko, teacher; Vladyslav Rodenko, student
Odesa
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Snizhana MATKOVSKA
Businesswoman, owner of the Relaks Café in Popasna, Luhansk region
Luhansk
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Tetiana NALEZHYTA
Head of Department – intensive care unit for newborns at the Vinnytsia regional hospital, Vinnytsia
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Mykola OVCHARENKO
Head of the Mental Health Center in the Luhansk Region, Rubizhne
Luhansk
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Valentyna PANASIUK
Director of the milk collection point “Prushanka”, Kozyatyn district, Vinnytsia Region
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Andrii PINCHUK
Priest, community leader in the Voloske village, Novooleksandrivska amalgamated community, Dnipropetrovska oblast
Dnipro
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Oleksii RIABOKON
Mayor of the Obiednana Terytorialna Hromada (Amalgamated Territorial Community) of Pyriatyn, Poltava Region
Poltava
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Liudmyla ROSTETSKA
Deputy director of the Cherkasy Higher Vocational School of Construction Technologies, Cherkasy
Cherkasy
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Valerii SELISHCHEV
Head of the Upper Kalmius Water Filtration Plant at Voda Donbasa, Donetsk
Donetsk
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Vladyslav SEMENIUK
Citizen, Vinnytsia
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Leonid TSENTYLO
Farmer, Head of the “Kolos” company, Pustovarivka, Kyiv Region
Kyiv
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Alla VNUKOVA
Internally Displaced Person, Entrepreneur, head of company “Edelweiss”, Kramatorsk, Donetsk Region
Donetsk
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Yevhen YAROVYI
Former economist, head of his residential building’s “Association of Apartment Building Co-owners” (OSBB), Darnytsia district, Kyiv
Kyiv
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Yuliia ZAIKA
Executive director of the League of Business and Professional Women of Ukraine, Chernihiv city
Chernihiv
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Oleksii ZELIVIANSKYI
IT engineer, Coordinator for “E-services” at the E-Governance for Accountability and Participation (EGAP) Programme, Kyiv
Kyiv
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Tetiana ZIATIKOVA
Head of the department of infrastructure projects, energy efficiency and promotion at the municipality of Zhytomyr
Zhytomyr
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Yuliia ZEMETSKA
Deputy director of the department of economics at the Bila Tserkva municipality, Kyiv Region
Kyiv