By Oleksandr Maistrenko | project leader
Charity Foundation "Democratic Society", Kyiv, Ukraine.
Our Ukrainian charity organization is now working at a charity project for helping media-partners of our non-profit organisation to survive and actively work in war time:
We are working with the help of an American charity organisation "GlobalGiving"
An information is situated:
http://www.ukrmol.kiev.ua
Fb.me/UkrMolnews
http://www.demsocfund.in.ua
Fb.me/founddemsoc
In difficult times we are trying to support our independent media outlets, media-partners of our Charity Foundation "Democratic Society", that provides objective and vital information to the communities, especially those suffering from Russia's invasion. We try to carry out funding to our media organizations that also conduct training and tutoring of students, most of all - children of refugees.
There is a war going on now. Media activity in Ukraine has never been so important. Our correspondents work tirelessly, journalists fight on the information front - with the help of news, texts, posts on social networks, streams on YouTube, etc.
The work of our journalists in wartime is difficult and responsible. Journalists must adhere to safety rules and ethical principles; they perform difficult and responsible work professionally and effectively.
The work of journalists during war is always fraught with difficulties and dangers; journalists have to work in unfavorable conditions, face danger and overcome it.
In their work in wartime, journalists must ensure the safety of their activities and have everything necessary to ensure their safety, including a first aid kit and communications equipment. In that our foundation "Democratic society" helps them.
Our Ukrainian media must have the resources to work.
In order for the newspaper to expand the circle of its readers, support for the development of the newspaper is needed to make it better, so that journalists are motivated to work at full strength.
Currently, during the war, not all advertising products can be advertised, so now there is a shortage in funds.
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 media and our correspondents to have a support in work.
We help our media, partners of our CF "Democratic Society", one of which is a newspaper "Ukrainian Youth".
Our newspaper "Ukrainian Youth" is read by officials of Ukraine, people's deputies, youth, ordinary people.
Our newspaper provides objective and important information to communities, especially those affected by Russian invasion. We also support our media organizations, which stimulate the improvement of professional skills of journalists, cyber and physical safety of journalists, as well as the explaining to journalists their rights and their protection during war.
We support our mass media, which is now in a bad situation during military operations.
Journalists of our editorial office work non-stop in order for our readers to learn the most up-to-date information in the period of war in Ukraine as quickly as possible.
Journalists work with published only true and verified information, defend freedom of speech and democratic values.
We have tried to help to provide the resources to work for our 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 have supported 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 provided 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, have holding cultural and integration events.
We have been 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 - by means of our newspaper "Ukrainian Youth" which editorial office we have financially supported.
Internship is included in the process of studying students at universities, and the organization of this internship, tuition, also required funds.
We were providing aid and pay for 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, electricity, firewood for heating the office, rooms for the employees of the foundation, medicine for the treatment of employees and those who need it.
Now, during the war, our organization and our Foundation has suffered. The office of our foundation was attacked by a Russian airplane fighter with missiles, which caused significant damages and funds were required to repair it. We had to rent an office, repair it, buy tools, construction materials, paint, hire construction specialists and pay them for work, as well as pay a lot of money for renting office space.
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 who need internship.
By helping the Ukrainians, we are also helping the American people in order to preserve democratic values and prevent the world from sliding into the chaos of a world war.
In our work we needed a help of donors.
Without the help of donors, we had not be able to carry out our aid.
That's why in our work our charity organisation relied and now rely on the donations of those, who care.
Charity Foundation "Democratic Society" 's work has being possible due to our generous donors. There grants helped us eliminate barriers so every student can pursue his or her dreams, journalists wil be able to carry out their work.
By Oleksandr Maistrenko | Project Leader
By Oleksandr Maistrenko | Project leader
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