By Oleksandr Maistrenko | Advisor of a Project Leader
Charity Foundation Democratic Society is a charitable organization founded and operating in accordance with the laws of Ukraine and the norms of international law.
The Foundation is a charitable, non-governmental, non-profit organization, that is, it does not aim to make a profit when carrying out its activities.
The Foundation carries out its charitable activities on the basis of legality, humanity, common interests and equal rights of participants, openness, transparency, voluntariness and self-governance.
The goals of the Foundation's charitable activities are to provide assistance in the areas of social protection, social security, human and civil rights and fundamental freedoms, social services and poverty alleviation, as well as the development and support of these areas in the public interest, as well as the provision of targeted charitable assistance to persons in need assistance, as well as activities aimed at ensuring the safety, preservation of life and health of people, in the areas specified below.
The Foundation's areas of charitable activity are:
education;
health care and assistance to persons with physical disabilities;
ecology, environmental protection and animal protection;
prevention of natural and man-made disasters and elimination of their consequences, assistance to victims of disasters, armed conflicts and accidents, as well as refugees and persons in difficult life circumstances;
custody and care, legal representation and legal assistance;
social protection, social security, social services and poverty alleviation;
culture and art, protection of cultural heritage;
science and scientific research;
human and citizen rights and fundamental freedoms;
development of territorial communities;
development of international cooperation of Ukraine;
stimulating the economic growth and development of the economy of Ukraine and its individual regions and increasing the competitiveness of Ukraine;
promoting the implementation of state, regional, local and international programs aimed at improving the socio-economic situation in Ukraine;
promotion of defense capability and mobilization readiness of the country, protection of the population in emergency situations of peace and war.
The vision of the Charity Foundation Democratic Society is to unite people in Ukraine and abroad around the idea of supporting the students from Ukraine, especially children of refugees. In 2024 we worked with students of the largest Ukrainian Universities organizing free internship in the speciality "Journalizm" to form a community of friends, establishing connections with alumni, businesses, civic organizations, and professional journalists.
Throughout the year, the Foundation team, in collaboration with the largest Ukrainian Universities, conducted work, coordinating fundraising and implementing key projects.
New members joined the Foundation, enhancing organizational capacity and invigorating work in various directions.
Foundation team members now is undergoing training in courses of UK Educational organisation, such as Ligtful, on fundraising, project management, copyright, communication in wartime conditions, and more.
We thank colleges and volunteers, GlobalGiving, Friends of our Foundation, donors, members, and other supporters for sharing their resources of time and treasure to assist us in making year progressive.
Charitable Foundation "Democratic society" is doing a work now with the aim of realisation of the project:
"Providing scolarship programs for students"
https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/providing-scolarship-programs-for-students/
(57408)
for helping students, most children of refugees to get higher education in the time of war.
All information is situated:
http://www.ukrmol.kyiv.ua
http://www.facebook.com/UkrMolnews
http://www.demsocfund.in.ua
http://www.facebook.com/FoundDemSoc
e-mail: demsocfund@gmail.com
The project helps to solve the problem of lack of finance resorses to provide Ukraine with the specialists with higher for rebuildiing of country after the war.
2024 is a year, troubling and tragic: now our country is engulfed in the fire of war.
Cruise missiles, drones Shaheds, fired by the Russian military troops, have killed and are now killing civilians, fall on the ukrainian peaceful homes destroying everything in many Ukrainian cities and towns, forcing refugees to seek safe places in other regions
and countries.
As a result of missile and air strikes on peaceful civilian houses, all the money of the refugee families remains under the ruins of the houses.
to the ongoing full-scale war between Russia and Ukraine, many Ukrainian families have found themselves in a difficult situation, some of them have become refugees They cannot provide that their children continue getting higher education in higher
educational institutions.
To help students - children of the refugees our foundation provides activity in the educational directions: the organization of free tutoring, free practice for students, free internships for students of higher educational institutions in the specialty "journalism", introduction of non-formal education in educational institutions, based on human rights principles, holding cultural and integration events.
It is the activities of education that provide tools for change, solving local problems.
We are also communicating with the leadership at the local and national levels.
There is a war going on now.
During the war, all state financial resources, as well as the funds of the population, are directed towards producing and purchasing of weapons to defend ourselves for surviving, for military personnel, participating in hostilities, creating a gigantic shortage of funds for refugees and all the civilians.
We are trying to help independent mass media and to prepare students to take part in journalistic work to have a support in work.
We help our media, partners of our CF "Democratic Society", one of which is a newspaper "Ukrainian Youth", www.ukrmol.kyiv.ua
In difficult times we are trying to support to our media organizations that conduct training and tutoring of students, most of all - children of refugees.
Our newspaper "Ukrainian Youth" is read by officials of Ukraine, people's deputies, youth, ordinary people.
We support our mass media, which is now in a bad situation during military operations.
We try to help to provide the resources to work for our intern journalists, for the implementation of freedom of transport movement of our journalists, for conducting interviews, attending press-conferences, covering important events, posting articles, purchasing gadgets and journalists equipment. With true and verified information, we don't give invaders a chance in the newsroom of the battle. To resist any kind of propaganda, we support our journalists.
To help children of refugees to continue getting higher education, to help media in our country, to develop journalism among children of the refugees, our charity organisation provides activity in the carrying out free tutoring, free practice for students, free internships for students of higher educational institutions in the specialty
"journalism", introduction of non-formal education in educational institutions, based on human rights principles, holding cultural and integration events.
We are working on problem how to help students - children of refugees from the war, how to give an aid to the main base for free internship in the journalistic speciality of such students - to our newspaper "Ukrainian Youth".
Internship is included in the process of studying students at universities, and the organization of this internship, tuition, also requires funds.
By helping the Ukrainians, we are also helping the American and other foreign people in order to preserve democratic values and prevent the world from sliding into the chaos of a world war.
During the Russian-Ukrainian war many cities of Ukraine and many industries are destroyed. There is a shortage of professionals with higher education to take part and help in the rebuilding of the country Ukraine.
The project helps to additionally solve the problem of lack of resources to provide Ukrainian students with the possibility of continuing of higher education to become specialists for rebuilding and renewing of country after the war.
To help children of the refugees our foundation provides activity in the educational directions: free tutoring, free practice for students, free internships for students of higher educational institutions in the specialty "journalism", introduction of non-formal education in educational institutions, based on human rights principles, holding cultural and integration events.
Education is essential, humanitarian action in any conflict must be comprehensive and that it is the activities of education that provide tools for change, solving difficult problems.
Charity Foundation "Democratic Society " has projects to help students - children of refugees from the war, a project of aid for free internships on the main base - the newspaper "Ukrainian Youth".
Our foundation's newspaper, called "Ukrainian Youth" provides free internships of students of Ukrainian universities in the specialty "Journalism".
Internship is included in the process of studying students at universities, and the organisation of this internship, tuition, also requires funds.
We organize work on teaching students how to write journalistic articles, journalistic work, receiving and processing journalistic materials. We are engaged in tutoring and as a result, professional growth is noticed in students.
The main thing is the material and financial provision of student's tutoring and internships.
We try to provide aid and support of the newspaper "Ukrainian Youth", which is the mean of media of the Charity Foundation "Democratic Society" in which tutoring and training of students is providing.
Our newspaper, called "Ukrainian Youth" simultaneously with informing our people also provides free internships for students of Ukrainian universities in the speciality
"Journalism".
Internship is included in the process of studying and tutoring students most children of refugees, at universities.We were providing aid and support of the newspaper "Ukrainian Youth", which is the main means of media of the Charitable Foundation "Democratic Society" in which tutoring and training of students is providing.
Payment of rent, telephone, Internet, transport to supply freedom of moving of our volunteers, students, journalists, electricity, rooms for the employees of the
foundation, medicine for the treatment of employees and those who need it.
Provision of the office with stationery and other supplies, gadgets for work, other equipment, provision of printing materials, printing of certificates on student
internships, renovation of editorial office of newspaper "Ukrainian Youth".
Payment for food, representative expenses, working trips. Provision of information and advertising services for finding students for internship.
In addition, funds were needed to repair the office of our Foundation, which was fired upon by the Russian troops during air raids.
In our work we hope for help of donors. Without the help of donors, we will not be able to carry out our statutory functions. That's why in our work our charity organisation rely on the donations of those, who cares. Donations are needed to help students, to pay tutors, journalists for their educational work with students.
Charity Foundation "Democratic Society" 's work is being possible due to our generous donors. Their gifts today helps us eliminate barriers so every student can pursue their dreams.
Now we are currently working with companies and individuals to help them decide to donate to our projects of helping refugees. Now we have contacted potential donors, we are working with them, and this gives a result. We were doing all in our power for realisations of our project.
We are expected that process of realisation of projects will be more intensive. Also sufficient for work amounts of funds must be reserved for planned activities of
Charity Foundation "Democratic Society".
By Oleksandr Maistrenko | Advisor of an editor in chief
By Oleksandr Maistrenko | Adviser of Project leader
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