INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF EDUCATIVE COMMUNITIES
Ukraine
UKRANIAN EDUCATION PLATFORM
The Ukrainian educational platform is a driver of social changes in the country. A charitable organization that implements innovative social projects, creates educational programs for public leaders and organizations. It works in the regions of Ukraine through a network of support centers. Founded in 2000 in Lviv (until 2021 — Lviv Educational Foundation).
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Short history:
Since 2010, it has supported more than 1,200,000 children from crisis families in crisis. He is a member of FICE International, an international organization for the protection of children's rights. Since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war, she founded the volunteer movement of Ukrainian youth "Building Ukraine Together". In addition, she started the "WoodLuck"; social workshop and launched the good- neighbor movement in Ukraine.
Since the beginning of the full-scale war, the Ukrainian educational platform has launched a humanitarian mission. Together with its partners, it evacuated more than 10,500 people from the combat zone and near-front territories. Placed more than 100,000 people from affected communities in temporary shelters. And also handed over 3,000,000 kilograms of humanitarian aid. In cooperation with the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) and other partners, it provides support to families with children.
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Mission:
Developing people's self-reliance for a strong Ukraine. Ukrainian Education Platform develops Ukrainian society by strengthening and supporting young people, religious communities, professional social workers, local governments, local volunteers, non-governmental and charitable organizations.
Vision:
We believe in Ukraine and Ukrainians, we unite, train and support people who are making changes in their communities and fostering responsibility.
Activities:
Program Leadership and ministry is a platform for the development of local activists and Christian teams to create changes throughout Ukraine. We research, teach and share best practices of social transformation from all over Ukraine for local change in each community Program Community Child Family is a program that creates and implements technologies to support families with children, orphans and graduates of institutional care institutions, as well as trains professionals, government officials, the public sector and volunteers in the field of child rights.
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Program Civic Education covers such target audiences as young people who want to create active civic youth centers, volunteers in small towns who want to learn how to effectively cooperate/promote the interests of local authorities regarding the needs of the community, active civic educators who understand the beneficial impact of civic education for any age, as well as city residents who are interested in participating in advocacy and may be interested in forming self-organized groups of residents, as
provided for by the legislation of Ukraine.
Support Centers is an organization that unites a cluster of civil society organizations (CSOs) and religious communities that
implement their own projects in partnership with the Ukrainian Educational Platform in different regions( Dnipropetrovsk,
Zaporizhzhya, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Kirovohrad, Cherkasy, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Poltava, and Kherson).
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Representatives:
Maryana Kashchak, CEO
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Contact Information:
Email: communications@ukredu.org
Address: Ukraine, Lviv, Lyzhviarska street, 22, 79013
Phone: +38 (093) 402 78 80