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How to strengthen your capacity and change your community: The story of the Women's Hub in Ukraine

The Women's Hub, a partner of the Women of Ukraine project, has strengthened its organizational capacity to become an entity to be reckoned with by local authorities and other stakeholders in Khmelnytsky. The organization can already boast of a successful advocacy case—successfully...

A mother in Ukraine finds strength, income with support from Pact's WINGS project

In June 2022, when Kateryna Hilinich first met with a WINGS project coordinator, she felt desolate and devastated. Six months of war, the shelling of her native city of Bila Tserkva, difficulties with earning a living, feeling anxious for her child who needed constant medical supervision...

As war rages in Ukraine, women entrepreneurs find strength, hope in business

For Natalia Chukhil, sewing children’s toys has long been a way to cope amid war and instability. When Russia invaded eastern Ukraine in 2014, Chukhil was forced to leave her home in Donetsk. To take her mind off her stress, she attended a master class on making soft toys. A baby elephant...

After Russia’s invasion, Pact and partners provide humanitarian assistance for Ukrainians affected by war

When Russia attacked Ukraine on Feb. 24, Iryna Trokhym and her colleagues were holding a three-day training in Lviv for women’s rights organizations from across the country’s western regions. Sixteen participants had just arrived in Lviv when the shelling began.

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For a hard-to-reach population in Ukraine, innovative online HIV outreach proves critical

Roman Marchenko has dedicated years of his life to LGBTI activism. It's a community he knows well, yet even he was surprised at the difficulty his HIV treatment and prevention organization had in reaching one key population – men who have sex with men, or MSM. Stigma and discrimination...

Through capacity development, a once-small Ukrainian NGO leads in HIV services

Although Olena Ovsyannikova was the head of a well-established HIV services NGO, she’d never heard of the concept of organizational development before.

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Pottery and empowerment: A new beginning for a Ukrainian woman living with HIV

In her late 30s, Olha is a self-employed beginner potter. She dreamed up the idea of opening a pottery studio last year when she attended Studio of Opportunities, a livelihoods program for women affected by HIV.

In Ukraine, a new life after prison

“I’d never thought about planning my future and never had support from anybody. After a few successful steps with Pact, I felt my life slowly improving.”

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