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The Ivano-Frankivsk Journalists’ Solidarity Center (JSC) actively cooperates with young people. Future journalists use the Center as a coworking space and come to share ideas and proposals, learn from the experience of their senior colleagues, and build forward-looking plans and projects. They also attend educational trainings hosted by the Center.
In this way, the employees of the Ivano-Frankivsk JSC managed to fulfill the task they set at the start of their work: to create not only a comfortable working atmosphere but also to become a kind of communication center for journalists, letting colleagues discuss ideas and communicate with each other.
So, the JSC has become a therapeutic place not only because psychological trainings and art therapy events are held here, but also because here, one can relax while communicating with like-minded people. At present, this is of great importance, especially for displaced persons who are looking for shelter and contacts with colleagues. The JSC has already formed a circle of regular visitors.
“For me, it is very important not only to get a university education but also to have an informal space where you can get to know the profession through communication with colleagues. At the Journalists’ Solidarity Center, my fellow students and I have participated in interesting trainings and webinars more than once and discussed future projects. We know we will be supported here,” says Denys Satanovskyi, a displaced student of the Department of Journalism at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University.
The JSC constantly informs media workers about various assistance they may receive there. In particular, the Center offers technical, humanitarian, legal, psychological, and advisory support.
Besides, thanks to the constant support of international donors and the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU), and with the assistance of the Center, media workers can receive financial assistance.
Call the Ivano-Frankivsk Journalists’ Solidarity Center by dialing 066 677 0726 (Viktoriya Plakhta, the JSC coordinator). JSC’s address is 25, Sichovykh Striltsiv Street.
As earlier reported, the Journalists’ Solidarity Centers is an initiative of the NUJU implemented with the support of the International and European Federations of Journalists and UNESCO. The initiative is designated to help media representatives working in Ukraine during the war. The Centers operate in Kyiv, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Zaporizhzhia, and Dnipro and provide journalists with organizational, technical, legal, psychological, and other types of assistance.
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