THE NATIONAL UNION OF
JOURNALISTS OF UKRAINE
The National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU) will organize mental health classes in regional Journalists’ Solidarity Centers (JSC) in Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Lviv. The funds were raised by the community of the Brussels bookstore Librebook, led by founder Antonio Parodi. This was reported by the President of the NUJU Sergiy Tomilenko on his Facebook.
“Librebook is not just a bookstore, but a space where people talk about Europe, culture and freedom. They held events about Ukraine there – and they also raised funds for our journalists,” he wrote.
In Zaporizhzhia, part of the funds will be directed to materials for art therapy. The local JSC has a club for evacuated journalists, more than 30 colleagues from temporarily occupied territories regularly gather there for training and discussions. Art therapy classes are led by Alla Shamrai, a journalist from the city of Enerhodar who herself went through evacuation.
“When people do something with their own hands, they at least temporarily get out of constant tension,” Tomilenko noted.
According to him, thanks to the support, dozens of journalists will receive a space for recovery, and handmade souvenirs will become gifts for friends of Ukraine.
The JSCs (or Safe Places for Journalists During Wartime) are an initiative of the NUJU, implemented with the support of the International and European Federations of Journalists and UNESCO. The network operates in Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Lviv.
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