“It’s a daily struggle, but it’s paying off”: the story of Renat, who has Down’s syndrome, dances, works as a model and dreams of owning a car
Renat Potichev dances, swims, walks the catwalk, travels, helps out at home and is gradually becoming more and more independent. His mum, Svitlana, explains why she never forced her son to be ‘like everyone else’ and which parenting principles helped…
Bill No. 14191 has been passed: on Comprehensive Support for People with Disabilities
On August 19, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed Bill No. 14191 in its second reading and as a whole; the bill provides for an increase in state assistance for people with disabilities since childhood and children with disabilities, as…
A millimetre from death: how a fragment of a cluster munition changed her life, but did not dampen her desire to help people
Before the full-scale invasion, Oksana Kornieva had worked for over twenty years as an ambulance paramedic in a small town in the Donetsk region, not far from the administrative border with the Luhansk region. She gave birth to two daughters…
9 new projects for people with disabilities are being launched in Ukraine with the support of “The League of the Strong”: what changes are planned in 8 Ukrainian communities
New projects to support people with disabilities are being launched in eight communities and at national level. Thanks to “The League of the Strong” sub-grant programme, support centres will be opened in the Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Poltava, Kharkiv and…
The Kyiv City State Administration is stepping up its efforts to prevent discrimination: a representative from the civil society sector has joined the commission
Iryna Yakovets, legal adviser and analyst at “The League of the Strong”, has joined the Commission for the Examination of Complaints Regarding Cases of Gender-Based Discrimination, Gender-Based Violence and Sexual Harassment within the Department of Social and Veterans’ Policy of…
The Ministry of Development has fully incorporated all the proposals from “The League of the Strong” regarding the accessibility of nurseries into the new building regulations
The Ministry of Community and Territorial Development of Ukraine has fully incorporated the proposals from “The League of the Strong” public organisation into the draft of the new State Building Regulations (DBN) concerning the design of pre-school education facilities. The…