YOC (Youth Organization of Change)

Charitable Organization "LIFE Charitable Foundation"

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Key achievements of our activity, besides helping the military, include clear, coordinated work with IDPs and comprehensive assistance to them. We have well-established work with IDPs, whom we help with food, hygiene products, clothing and household items. We maintain an internal database of these people and record their receipt of assistance.

This year we were sub-grantees of the project "Assistance to IDPs in the Western region through local partnerships" in cooperation with CO "Wings of Hope" with support from the Czech government. Within the project we utilized 322,000 grant funds. During project implementation we covered 1,500 IDPs from 5 communities in our region: Horinchivska, Khustska, Bushtynska, Tyachivska, Vynohradivska TCs.

Another good result was a grant project from "Blogomai" foundation with support from the Faroe Islands government, during which we worked with teenage girls from socially vulnerable categories living with us and those relocated to us from Dnipro and now living in social support centers for children and families "Dovira" and "Barvinok". Within this project we conducted six modules and utilized 232,000 hryvnias. And provided support to 30 girls from socially vulnerable categories.

As soon as we saw your platform providing such an opportunity, without unnecessary deliberation we decided to apply for this project, because instead of waiting until we win some grant, we can already start working on project implementation. And we are 100% confident that during this project a grant project for continuation and completion of work on it will definitely come our way. When you're already working on some project, it's easier to find people ready to support you, because they already see actions.

The project solves a very important problem - preparing youth for active public life, for the desire to participate in community management, for forming a clear civic position and firm conviction that it depends on You what your community, your city will be like tomorrow.

I am a teacher by profession with 30 years of experience and 10 years of living abroad. The influence of the public sector on life there is significant. I extremely want to change the approach to community management, to involving youth in management processes, but prepared youth who understand what they want to do, what they want to improve, what they need to change in themselves and their attitude to public life, so that we finally move away from the remnants of the USSR past. Because we still observe a trend toward rejuvenation of local communities, but very often this is completely unprepared youth acting on instructions from their parents who have been managers for years. And this absolutely doesn't work for constructive development.

Thus creating such a space will solve a number of social problems in the community: teenage employment; active and constructive leisure; forming socially responsible citizens