THE NATIONAL UNION OF
JOURNALISTS OF UKRAINE
A working meeting of representatives of the Ivano-Frankivsk Journalists’ Solidarity Center and charitable organizations from Italy took place in the co-working space of the Ivano-Frankivsk JSC of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU) as part of the Partnership For Victory project.
The meeting participants discussed the possibility of bilateral cooperation within the framework of the Health Care For Safety And Rehabilitation and At Ukraine’s Side, Always projects, which will be funded by the Italian government, namely the Italian Agency for the Development of Cooperation AICS in cooperation with the FOCSIV charity organization, Missione Calcutta and ARCS.
At the meeting, Ukraine was represented by the coordinator of the JSC, Viktoriya Plakhta, the head of the Ivano-Frankivsk regional organization of the NUJU, Liliya Bodnarchuk, the head of the Department of Information of the Ivano-Frankivsk Archdiocese of the UGCC, Father Ivan Stefurak, migrant media workers – Vera Ilyina from the Donetsk Region, Maryna Trubnikova from the Kharkiv Region, displaced students of the departments of journalism at Carpathian universities and volunteer journalists from Ivano-Frankivsk. On the Italian side, the participants in the meeting were Marco Iazzolino, the vice president of the Italian charitable organization Missione Calcutta; Doriana Somma, the coordinator of international projects of Missione Calcutta; Giorgio Zelikovic, the head of the Health Care For Safety And Rehabilitation project; Mina Lanzillotti, the head of the At Ukraine’s Side, Always project, Mikol Simonato, the monitoring and evaluation officer; and Giuseppe Chiorazzo, a person responsible for procurement of goods within the framework of projects.
The Health Care For Safety And Rehabilitation project envisages, in particular, the creation of a rehabilitation center and the cooperation of Ukrainian and Italian doctors on the exchange of experience, as well as the conduct of a media campaign aimed at informing the residents of Kharkiv about the mine-explosive danger through the dissemination of information in various means of communication.
At Ukraine’s Side, Always is an initiative aimed at helping internally displaced persons and vulnerable strata of the local population. Among the activities that will take place within the scope of the project, food will be provided to displaced persons living in shelters, which are under the care of the archdiocese. In addition, the St. Luke’s Clinic will provide free packages of medical services for women, children, the elderly, and people with disabilities. Vulnerable segments of the population, including single mothers, internally displaced persons, and low-income families, will be able to use the diagnostics.
In the Center’s co-working space, Italian benefactors got acquainted with its work, projects, and initiatives aimed at supporting and helping journalists during the war. They also learned about the activities of the Ivano-Frankivsk regional organization of the NUJU.
During the conversation, the guests were interested in the experience of supporting media workers, in particular those who live in the border and front-line regions of Ukraine. Italian partners had a good opportunity to talk with students and journalists from among IDPs who have been temporarily living in the Ivano-Frankivsk region since the beginning of the full-scale war and learn about their needs and problems.
Speaking about the main goal of the projects, Giorgio Zelikovic noted that the most important thing is the desire to help people so that tomorrow, they have the opportunity to help others.
The JSC coordinator, Viktoriya Plakhta, addressed the guests, thanked them for their support, and assured of active bilateral cooperation in the implementation of joint initiatives to help people in need.
The Ivano-Frankivsk JSC continues to actively implement the Partnership For Victory project, aimed primarily at helping displaced journalists and media workers who are in the war zone, in the front-line, and de-occupied territories.
Call the Ivano-Frankivsk JSC at 066 677 0726 (Viktoriya Plakhta, the Ivano-Frankivsk JSC coordinator). The Center’s address is 25 Sichovykh Striltsiv Street.
ABOUT JSC
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.
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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