The ‘Shelter’ Initiative Supports Displaced Persons in Sheptytskyi
“The ‘Shelter’ Project is a project of love,” said a project team member in Sheptytskyi, city councilwoman Halyna Kruk, about the initiative that has been helping displaced persons integrate into our community since October 2022.
For over two years, the ‘Shelter’ team has been engaging people who have been forced to leave their homes in active social, artistic, and sporting life. A plethora of workshops, tours across Ukraine, yoga sessions, dance classes, and classes at the school of folk crafts – all have been organized by the project team for internally displaced persons for three years in a row.
Recently, the ‘Shelter Sheptytskyi’ project team reviewed nearly three years of work in our community and announced the launch of a new project. During the meeting, the national coordinator of ‘Shelter Ukraine’ and head of the ‘Alliance for Development’ NGO, Mariya Makivnychuk (who initially started this project in Verkhovyna), discussed how the project has impacted the lives of hundreds of children and adults who have successfully integrated into new communities.
During the meeting, attendees had the opportunity to hear ‘real-life stories’ from project participants, who were forced to leave their homes due to war and settle in our community, and learn about how the project has affected their destinies and themselves.
Furthermore, during the meeting, Deputy Mayor Taras Tyrko and Mariya Makivnychuk signed a memorandum of cooperation between the ‘Alliance for Development’ NGO and the Sheptytskyi City Council.
The Shelter Sheptytskyi project is implemented by the ‘Alliance for Development’ NGO with the support of Schueler helfen leben (Germany) and co-financing from the European Union.