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Coffee with a Donor
On October 4, 2024, Zaporizhzhia hosted the "Coffee with a Donor" event, where local NGOs learned about donor activities, collaboration tools, and partnership requirements. Discussions covered business engagement, integration of occupied communities, education, women’s retraining, and establishing day-care centers. Representatives of 10 local foundations presented their initiatives, while Oleksandr Kondratynskyi, Senior Program Development Manager of UCBI 4, highlighted partnership opportunities. The event concluded with a Q&A session to foster dialogue and collaboration.
04.10.2024

Forum "Community Security and Recovery,
On September 27, Zaporizhzhia hosted the forum "Community Security and Recovery," bringing together representatives of authorities, communities, police, and international organizations. Participants discussed security challenges, the integration of internally displaced persons and veterans, and collaboration with international partners. Viktoriia Davydova, Regional Director of the Relief Coordination Centre, presented successful cases of working with IDPs, emphasizing the importance of social cohesion and effective interaction to support communities.
27.09.2024

Creative workshops for IDP’s
In September , the Relief Coordination Centre, in partnership with iomukraine, organized a series of nine creative workshops for 135 internally displaced persons. Participants engaged in creative and interactive activities to alleviate stress and anxiety, finding inner peace and restoring psychological balance. The workshops included candle-making with beeswax, creating personalized perfumes, weaving mandalas, and practicing Petrykivka painting. The program aimed to enhance socialization, interaction, and stress relief through shared creativity.
27.09.2024

Transit Point for Evacuees from Donetsk
The Relief Coordination Centre is actively responding to challenges related to the evacuation of civilians, focusing its efforts in the Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions. Special attention is given to the transit point in Pavlohrad, where assistance for evacuees from Donetsk is concentrated. The main task of the Centre is to provide comprehensive support, including humanitarian, psychological, legal, and financial assistance. As of August 30, 2024, 1,819 individuals have been evacuated through the transit point, and we thank all partners for their active support.
21.09.2024

Training retreat for FSLC coordinators
From September 16 to 20, coordinators of the Food Security and Livelihoods Cluster participated in a training retreat for FSLC coordinators. The program covered key topics such as FAO project implementation in livelihoods, inter-cluster collaboration with CCCM and Wash clusters, organizing regional meetings and fieldwork, integrating people with disabilities into humanitarian programs, emergency preparedness, and community-based needs assessments (PRA). UHF delivered a presentation on funding, project proposal writing, and donor communications, as well as discussions on the new definition of people in crisis (PIN) and FSL Cluster targets. Kateryna Lavrenko and Viktoriia Davydova, coordinators for the Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia regions, shared their experience in establishing a transit point during active evacuations, emphasizing a unified system of registration and deduplication, as exemplified by the transit point in Kharkiv.
20.09.2024