Community – Vidnova

Vidnova Community aims to be a safer, more inclusive, and competence-guided space where individuals can connect, share experience, resources and expertise, collaborate, and collectively work towards recovery and growth. The focus is on fostering meaningful connections and synergy in civil society in Ukraine through shared values, practices, and resources.

Our Community consists of people engaged within all Vidnova programs.

Our Community

Maryna Maikovska

Maryna Maikovska was born in Trostyanets, Sumy region, and now lives in Kyiv. Maryna is a director. As part of the Vidnova Ukraine Fellowship, she worked on the creation of a series of films about the evacuation of animals from Bucha. She plans to promote the film project to international animal protection and human rights organizations.

Valeriya Guevska

Valeriya Guevska moved from Kyiv to Graz, Austria. Valeriya is working on publishing a magazine about underground culture, “Potop”. She plans to finalize the Dido typeface, dedicate it to the artist Andrii Sagaidakovsky, and make a video installation for the Konstruksia festival, where she wants to experiment with the ideas of poetic painting, abstract painting, and vernacular inscriptions.

Olha Ruban

Olha moved from Hostomel to Czech Republic, Krumlov. Olha has been working with artistic glass in the lampwork technique since 2008. Before the war, she had her workroom and constantly held individual and group workshops. She plans to restore the workroom and renew her creative and teaching work.

Mykhailo Biliavskyi

Roma Women Fund Chiricli

chirikli.com.ua

Mykhailo Biliavskyi comes from Chernihiv and moved to Munich. His project in frames of Vidnova Europe aimed to advocate for the Roma who fled the war and received shelter in Bavaria. The project assisted in organizing daily life: formalities, translation, housing, and integration for children and adults by learning German. Mykhailo’s host organization was Roma Women Fund Chiricli.

Roma

Bavaria

Lab

Vita Shneider

NGO New Housing Policy

newhousingpolicy.com.ua/eng/home-eng

Vita is a housing researcher based in Lviv. Before the war, her research focus was developing a social housing system in Ukraine. Now, it has shifted to the right to housing in war-time. Within Vidnova Lab Vita and Iryna Shapovalova investigate the private rental market in Ukraine as it accommodates most internally displaced people (IDP). They work on creating a prototype of sustainable housing solutions for IDPs.

right to housing

vulnerability

displacement

IDPs

Anna Bugaiova

Anna is originally from Odesa. After a time in Nuremberg, she returned to Odesa and transferred to the sister program of Vidnova Europe – Vidnova Ukraine. She implements her project, Inclusive Workshops, of wartime socialization and psychological support groups for internally displaced persons with mental forms of disability. Part of the budget was reserved for creating a production component based on a socialization group so that in the future, the project could grow into a social enterprise, bring income, and be self-sustaining.

inclusiveness

workshops

Vidnova Europe > Vidnova Ukraine

Yulia Manukyan

Yulia was born in Kherson and now lives in Odesa. She is a journalist, art critic, co-founder and curator of artistic and urban projects of the NGO “Urban Re-Public” (Kherson), an expert of the Museum Council of the NGO “Museum of Modern Art in Ukraine”, a volunteer of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Kherson (MSMH). Yulia restores the organization’s work in Odesa and documents the consequences of the war for the cultural heritage of southern Ukraine. As part of the Vidnova Ukraine Fellowship, Yulia realized the project “Animation of art resistance in the occupation” to support the artistic community of Kherson. Discussions on the problems of decolonization became a separate block of the project.

Yuliya Kysil

Yuliya moved from Kyiv to Prague, Czech Republic. Yulia is an artist working on the documentary “Libido during the War” series. In this project, she studies the history of Ukrainians trying to preserve vitality and thirst for love despite a full-scale war.

Lab

Iryna Minkovska

Me and my school

meandmyschool.ua/about/

Iryna from Kharkiv is an entrepreneur in education, CEO of the educational center “ME AND MY SCHOOL”, and co-author of the New Ukrainian School reform concept. She has been developing the market for teacher training nationwide in Ukraine and non-formal children’s education. Within the Vidnova Lab, Iryna together with Nadiia Synytsia are working on community-based learning. Based on the belief that education is a substantial base to engage communities, they research how regional public educational centers can become an instrument for Ukraine’s recovery. These centers envision supporting the country’s recovery in human capacity development, the engagement of local communities, the attraction of financial resources, and psychological support.

education

community learning

community school

Zoreslava Klymenko

Zoreslava is the director of the South Ukrainian City Historical Museum. In frames of the Vidnova Ukraine Fellowship, she updated the museum’s fund storage and implemented the latest technologies. The permanent exhibition “Heroes do not Die” has been updated with decorated portraits of fallen soldiers, a restored diorama, and a purchased multimedia video projector.

Iryna Savytska

Iryna moved from Lisnyki, Kyiv region, to Pescara, Italy. She is a co-founder of the Ukrainian startup Bank of Memories and a member of the “Memories of Ukraine” organization. Together with her husband, in the “Bank of Memories” project, they create digital memorials for heroes who died in the Russian-Ukrainian war. These short films can be viewed directly from the plaque using a smartphone.

Victoria Mushtey

Support Ukraine

supportukraine.uk

Victoria comes from Kyiv and moved to London. She co-created an educational and entertaining YouTube project “Nevihlasy” that targets teenagers and young people. It highlights topics not disclosed in our educational system but that are necessary for a conscious life. The main topics are sexual education and its importance for the healthy development of society, and the issue of Ukrainian self-identity: who we are, where we come from, and where we are going.

sex education

traditions

Kateryna Pavlovska

Kateryna Pavlovska lived in Kyiv and then moved to Gdansk, Poland. She is a journalist and worked for a long time at the ICTV TV channel. Kateryna is working on a documentary film about Kyivan Rus. The purpose of the film is to explain why Kievan Rus, which was territorially located on the territory of Ukraine, was included in Russian colonial history, how the artificial concept of 3 brotherly nations was created from this, and how Russian propaganda still uses this part of history in the information war against Ukraine.

Lab

Nadiia Synytsia & Iryna Minkovska

IT Ukraine Association and enpact e.V.

itukraine.org.ua

Me and my school

meandmyschool.ua/about/

Nadiia lives between Kyiv and Berlin. She is the head of Education and CSR at IT Ukraine Association and the Program Manager at enpact. She is an experienced project manager and digital expert in Ukraine and Germany’s NGO and impact sector. Iryna from Kharkiv is an entrepreneur in education, CEO of the educational center “ME AND MY SCHOOL”, and co-author of the New Ukrainian School reform concept. She has been developing the market for teacher training nationwide in Ukraine and non-formal children’s education. Within the Vidnova Lab, Nadiia and Iryna are working on community-based learning. Based on the belief that education is a substantial base to engage communities, they research how regional public educational centers can become an instrument for Ukraine’s recovery. These centers envision supporting the country’s recovery in human capacity development, the engagement of local communities, the attraction of financial resources, and psychological support.

education

community learning

community school

Iryna Shcherba

Iryna moved from Zhytomyr to Poland, Warsaw. Iryna creates a program of psychological rehabilitation centers for our defenders and their families. She is also working on centers where working mothers can leave their children for the period of work, as well as find hourly work based on these centers.

Andriy Savych

Andriy moved from Lviv to Spain. Andriy is a musician. His musical career went through various orchestras in Ukraine and abroad (Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Clásica Santa Cecilia, and others). He returned to resume his activities, develop his vlog, and share his knowledge there.