Report for April

The Rise of Ukraine train of good deeds is gaining spring momentum 🚂

And here’s what we managed to do in April 👀

A lot of work within the framework of the @yednanniazaradydii programme for IDPs 30+, namely:

💡 Workshop from a relocated business: we listened to stories from 3 incredible women who were not afraid to start over in Dnipro. Each story was inspiring and became an example of how important it is not to give up and follow your passion.

👩🏼‍💻 Useful SPEED JOB INTERVIEWS – dates where you are not looking for love, but for a great job. Speed dating with top employers in Dnipro took place here: 7 minutes for each person to find out about vacancies, conditions, tell about themselves and hear if their hearts respond.
We are happy to announce that the first meetings have already taken place, so working love does exist 👌🏻

👩🏻‍🎨 2 workshops on painting on canvas – to indulge in creativity and forget about the news, worries and the world around you for a few hours. Such events are very important for psychological support and relief for our fragile women. And they give additional comfort to their homes, because all the painted pictures go home with them 💝

🗣 8 Ukrainian and English conversation clubs – it’s not too late to improve your knowledge at any age, and our meetings prove it. Here, no one is afraid to make a mistake, but on the contrary, they support and help in learning new things 🫂

🖼 Excursions to the Vadym Sidura Museum and the Dnipro Art Museum – we learned about the talented artists of our region and saw their talents with our own eyes. Even the air raid didn’t stop us from continuing the tour in a safe place. This is what it means to have a thirst for art 🤌🏻

👩🏻‍🏫 A lecture on “How to create a CV?” and on IT – we got to know the world of the future and learnt the secrets of how to get there. This is a great opportunity to try a new industry and understand how everything works there.

📽 Watching and discussing films in English and Ukrainian – not only children can have fun. Parents also need to relax, but it’s also good to learn a little. In this way, by combining them, we wrote down new words in our dictionaries and crossed barriers in communication.

We did this with our favourite kids at the HAB:

👧🏻 We held 7 creative workshops: together with the children, we painted plaster figures, made beaded jewellery, created mandalas, slides and various 3D art. To loud laughter, of course.

🎨 We have graduated 32 creators from the “School of Little Van Goghs” course – the paintings are finished and ready to conquer the art world. Every time we are very proud of these little talents and believe in their great future.

🙃 We played the educational games “100=1” and “Lisa and her friends travel the world” – who said it was impossible to combine these two things? When the pros get involved, everything goes at the highest level.

📚 We have launched a new stream of the English School with Rise course, because today’s life is impossible without knowledge of a foreign language. Therefore, everyone is studying hard and is already showing their first achievements.

🎞 We held 2 movie nights with delicious corn sticks – to make your soul feel good and have fun with new friends.

And outside the Rise Universe, we visited the Rise with the kids:

🎬 Our favourite friends from @planetakino and watched “Kung Fu Panda 4” and “Dragon Slayer”

🍟 The most delicious @mcdonaldsukraine and together with 22 children of IDPs and military personnel ate a Happy Meal

And the world’s best team managed to attend the following trainings and events:
📌 Crowdfunding accelerator – “CITY OF CHANGE”
📌 Online webinar “FSLC harmonisation and deduplication of food aid”
📌 Educational forum from the Logos Educational Holding and the Dnipro Regional Military Administration
📌 4-day H.E.A.T. training “Rules of conduct in a hostile environment”
📌National coordination meeting of the Food Security and Livelihoods Cluster (FSC) partners
📌 Training “Project management”
for the education cluster with the support of Save the Children
📌 Training “Teamwork. Counteracting professional burnout”

Forward to May with Rise 💙💛