Ukraine

Mondo activities in Ukraine before the full-scale war

Education

• Mondo initiated an educational school network in Luhansk oblast and prior to the full-scale war was cooperating with 40 schools in the crisis region (25% of all schools). We have a human rights themed educational program directed specifically to the crisis area of eastern Ukraine. More than 1000 teachers and 12 000 pupils were benefiting from human rights and global education activities. 
• Mondo has supported educational facilities in Ukraine in order to help schools create an environment that supports catch-up learning, use modern educational tools and integrate global topics into school lessons.
• Our educational projects in Ukraine actively engage Estonian teachers. Mondo has organized study visits to Estonia for Ukrainian education workers during which we introduced the Estonian education system and visited Estonian schools. 
• In collaboration with our partners, Mondo has organized many educational events in Ukraine. With the help of Estonian experts, we organized an ethics, values and corruption themed workshop in Kiev for eastern Ukrainian school principals. Since 2016, we have been organizing teacher’s training and conferences on human rights and SDGs. 
• During quarantine, we offered a distance learning themed web-seminar series to over 3000 Ukrainian education workers.
• We have provided schools in our education network with equipment for different subjects and ICT, equipment for active breaks (games, sports gear, badminton, etc) and disinfectants. To support distance learning, we provided 30 schools with projectors and audio systems which improved the schools’ ability to teach during COVID-19 pandemic.

Digital competencies for teachers 

• In 2021, Mondo piloted the Digital Competencies Training for teachers in the Ukrainian crisis areas. Local trainers completed the training and were scheduled to train teachers in their schools. However, due to the full-scale war, the training of teachers is now happening online instead.
• Mondo has been facilitating seminars and webinars for Ukraine’s educational workers, in order to support distance learning and e-teaching skills.

Healthcare 

• Since the beginning of the crisis in Ukraine in 2014, Mondo has been supporting more than 50 medical facilities in the Luhansk region with consumables and medical equipment and offered psychosocial support activities in eastern Ukraine.

Food security and livelihoods

• Since 2014, Mondo has been offering humanitarian aid in Ukraine. In the early years of the conflict, we provided food aid and support to local hospitals.
• In 2020, eastern Ukraine was struck by large-scale forest fires which destroyed hundreds of homes. Through Mondo’s Crisis Fund, our partner Vostok SOS received 2000€ for the support of families who lost their homes. Thanks to the donated money, five families were provided with home rebuilding materials.

Democratic development 

• On Mondo’s initiative, a new tradition of Opinion Festivals started in Severodonetsk in 2016. The opinion festival is a platform to raise a variety of topics relevant to democratic development of the society. The Opinion Festival in Severodonetsk took place every year in the beginning of September.  

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