In February of this year, few people believed in a large-scale war in our country. On February 24-25, not everyone believed that the enemy would be under the walls of the capital and peaceful settlements would be occupied. At the end of February, many believed that civilian facilities would not be shelled, that this was …
With the outbreak of Russia’s large-scale war against Ukraine, our longtime friends, the Canada-Ukraine Foundation (CUF), immediately offered their assistance to war-affected Ukrainians. As of April 14, 1345 war-affected people have already been provided with funds received from the CUF. First of all, individual assistance includes: food, medicine, hygiene products, building materials and cash up …
On January 21, 2022, another successful Ukrainian Deminers Association project called “Training for trainers” was completed on a specially created training platform “Explosive Ordnance Risk Education” (EORE). Within this project, more than 500 Donetsk and Luhansk residents studied at the EORE course. The training took place online, students read lectures and did exercises on their …
In December, the Ukrainian Deminers Association completed one of its most successful projects – explosive ordnance risk education (EORE) in the Donetsk Oblast. Within the project 10 special prepared EORE trainers (5 women and 5 men – residents of Donetsk region), were divided into 4 mobile teams of EORE operators: EORE groups “Kramatorsk”, “Pokrovsk”, “Volnovakha” …
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Ukrainian Deminers Association has moved to the 2nd stage of the project “Practical Training Module “Online Safety” – integration into school program within Ukrainian School Reform”. The purpose of the project is to improve the level of qualification of pedagogical staff on information security and further transfer of the training course to the institutes of …
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Our project “Let’s Сlean Donbas Together!” was supported by the Canada-Ukraine Foundation (CUF), which provided a significant amount of funds, namely 13 thousand dollars. So we collected the dream amount! We truly thank our Ukrainian Canadians and concerned Canadian citizens. Moreover, within the project “European Union for the Sustainability of Civil Society in Ukraine”, implemented …
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For the first time in the history of Ukraine, the non-profit NGO Ukrainian Deminers Association launched a large-scale project “Let’s Clean Donbas Together!” (https://www.peoplesproject.com/en/ochistimo-donbas-razom/) The project is aimed at clearing (demining) Ukrainian lands in eastern Ukraine of mines and explosives, which will save the lives and health of Ukrainians. Today, about 700,000 hectares in the …
On the occasion of the International Mine Awareness Day, the Ukrainian Deminers Association (UDA) together with the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, held a Mine Awareness Week. As part of this event, from April 7-9, 2021, representatives of the UDA and the Ministry visited the cities of Toretsk, Donetsk region, …
One of the integral components of humanitarian mine action is the Explosive Ordnance Risk Education (EORE). NGO “Ukrainian Deminers Association” (UDA) actively conducts activities to inform the population about risks and threats which are come from explosive remanents of war. One of the most effective areas of this activity is conducting “Training for Trainers”, i.e. …
At the end of 2020, within the pilot project “Mine Risk Education for Ukrainian Public Schools (age 12-18) – Train the Teacher on Mine Safety” representatives of the Ukrainian Deminers Association conducted live explosive ordnance risk education (EORE) sessions for certified teachers in Dnipro, Kramatorsk and Kyiv. During the training event, teachers were shown …