Psychosocial events "Open Football Lessons" for IDP children are starting in the western regions
The first dates of psychosocial events "Open football lessons" in the western regions of Ukraine have become known.
The Ukrainian Football Association and regional football associations will help IDP children integrate into host communities and unite and make friends with local children through open football lessons.
The families of the displaced will be provided with humanitarian aid - 3000 sets (medical, food and basic necessities), and local schools - a large number of sports equipment for football events.
The first dates of the events are already known:
May 20-21 - Khmelnytsky region, Dunaivtsi;
May 21-22 - Chernivtsi region, Novoselytsia;
May 23-24 - Ternopil region, Buchach;
May 26-27 - Ternopil region, Zaliztsi.
The schedule will be constantly updated thanks to new communities that will join.
All project activities are carried out in coordination with the regional military administrations.
It will be recalled that in April, special preparatory trainings for volunteers were held in seven regions participating in the project.
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The overall goal of the Open Football Lessons project is to help protect IDP children, unaccompanied children, orphans and other vulnerable children affected by the war and forced to relocate to Western Ukraine. , Lviv, Rivne, Ternopil, Khmelnytsky and Chernivtsi regions).
In addition to the overall goal, the project has three specific objectives:
- provide emergency humanitarian assistance (medicines, food and non-food items) to IDP children and their families;
- provide psychosocial support to children through a powerful social instrument of grassroots football, through games and open football events that will unite these target groups of children with local children;
- to provide material, technical and moral support to the united football cross-sectoral networks of the project in the western regions of Ukraine in their efforts to help the affected target groups of children.
International donors and project partners - New Democracy Fund (Denmark), Common Goal (Germany), Cross Cultures Project Association (Denmark).
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