Help those in need: Ivano-Frankivsk JSC employees join the action

“Your book is a dinner for the poor and homeless” – the employees of the Ivano-Frankivsk Journalists’ Solidarity Center of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU) joined this initiative – coordinator Viktoriya Plakhta and assistant Bohdana Zasidko. The good deed was initiated by the Community of Sant’Egidio (Ivano-Frankivsk).

Viktoriya Plakhta and Bohdana Zasidko, like other participants of the charity event, brought books of various genres from their own libraries to pass them on to other lovers of reading. Next, the organizers plan to hold a book fair in Ivano-Frankivsk. With the collected funds, the Community of Sant’Egidio will organize charity dinners for lonely people and people experiencing homelessness.

“We have good cooperation with the Community of Sant’Egidio in Ivano-Frankivsk, whose work is coordinated by our colleague, Ivan Haruk, a member of the Community. Thanks to our partnership and the support of the Community, journalists from the front-line regions, in particular Chernihiv and the Kherson Regions, have repeatedly received humanitarian aid, for which we are sincerely grateful. The Ivano-Frankivsk JSC, for its part, joins the charity work of the Community of Sant’Egidio. We must unite and support each other because only together we are invincible!, – said Victoria Plakhta during a meeting with Ivan Haruk, coordinator of the Community of Sant’Egidio at the JSC.

About JSC

The Journalists’ Solidarity Centers are an initiative of the NUJU implemented with the support of the International and European Federations of Journalists, as well as UNESCO. The initiative is designed to help media representatives working in Ukraine during the war. The JSCs operate in Kyiv, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Zaporizhzhia, and Dnipro and provide journalists with organizational, technical, legal, psychological, and other types of assistance.

About UNESCO

UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. It contributes to peace and security by promoting international cooperation in education, sciences, culture, communication, and information. UNESCO promotes knowledge sharing and the free flow of ideas to accelerate mutual understanding. It is the coordinator of the UN Action Plan on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity, which aims to create a free and safe environment for journalists and media workers, thus strengthening peace, democracy, and sustainable development worldwide. UNESCO is working closely with its partner organizations in Ukraine to provide support to journalists on the ground.

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Dana Danyliv