What European Accessibility Practices Can Be Implemented In Ukraine: “The League of the Strong” Presents a Study
Accessibility is not just about ramps and elevators. European cities and communities are transforming transportation, digital services, tourism, public spaces, and planning approaches so that everyone can use them. “The League of the Strong” examined European experience and identified practices…
“Our home is us”: the story of the Shynkarenko-Veremienko family, who gave a home to thirteen children
Natalia was an only child in her family. Just as her mother had been in hers. There were no traditions of a large extended family. And suddenly, she herself has fourteen children. Today, Natalia Anatoliivna Shynkarenko and Pavlo Ivanovych Veremienko…
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…
Three organisations have become associate members of “The League of the Strong”: Epiprosvita, Nezabutni and the 03:00 Foundation
The “The League of the Strong” continues to grow. Three more organisations, with which “The League of the Strong” has long been collaborating, have become associate members. These are the NGO ‘Episprosvita’, the ‘Nezabutni’ Charitable Foundation and the NGO “Foundation…