: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Improving the mixed fortunes of Ukraine’s 1.7 million war-displaced


Imagine at 50 years old having to leave a region you’ve called home your entire life. And imagine having to leave almost everything behind, including your livelihood.

That’s the story of Oleksandr Dovzhenko, now 53, who left war-torn Donetsk at the height of Ukraine’s almost four-year-old conflict to relocate in safer Poltava Oblast. There, he took over a folk arts workshop and produces large-format, traditional carpets. Through crowdfunding he plans to improve working conditions for workers and expand the business further with weaving workshops and an exhibition space.

Khrystyna Yatskiv used to work for a Crimean television channel in Simferopol …read more

Source: IRIN

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