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Dany Stolbunov, 20, and his friend, Anya, 19, relax on a hammock in Shevchenko Park

Carry on living and fighting

Health
I don’t feel scared talking about my status openly in Ukraine. If you are alone, of course, it is scary, but if you have people around you who support you and understand you, it’s not scary at all. Each person needs acceptance and I am lucky that many people accept me. I was lucky at the early stages of forming my openness about the disease. If I was bullied at school for it, for example, maybe I would have a completely different attitude about my openness now. I was always lucky with the people around me. I am lucky that I live in Kyiv and my group of friends knows and accepts me, but if we...
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Ukrainian activist Yana Panfilova

Caring for the mental well-being

Health
In today's world full of stress and disasters, mental well-being is definitely one of the must-haves. It is critical to monitor mental health just like physical health. It’s not “just about wearing a mask”, it’s about taking good care and working on it every day. What is mental health? How do you see and feel it? When we talk about mental well-being, we mean a condition in which a person does not feel psychological pressure, and feels at ease in his or her community and with himself or herself. Alas, we cannot feel the psyche itself literally, but we can see its overall condition when we look...
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Two young people share a hammock in a park.

Carry on living and fighting

Health
I don’t feel scared talking about my status openly in Ukraine. If you are alone, of course, it is scary, but if you have people around you who support you and understand you, it’s not scary at all. Each person needs acceptance and I am lucky that many people accept me. I was lucky at the early stages of forming my openness about the disease. If I was bullied at school for it, for example, maybe I would have a completely different attitude about my openness now. I was always lucky with the people around me. I am lucky that I live in Kyiv and my group of friends knows and accepts me, but if we...
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The boy is holding a Health-BOX

Fighting for a healthy future for Ukraine’s children

Health

The UPSHIFT programme has helped a team of doctors to distribute healthy food boxes to internally displaced children in Ukraine. My name is Ivan Panasko, I am the initiator of the Health-BOX project. My teammates are Vladyslav Tokariev and Catherine Penia. We are all intern doctors in Kharkiv (a neurologist, a traumatologist and a surgeon, respectively). I participated in the first wave of UPSHIFT, an opportunity to support youth and adolescents to become a force for positive social and economic change, contributing to a competitive labour force, sustained economic growth, improved governance...

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Friendship

Magic of Friendship

Human Rights

Peace is an active relationship characterized by cooperation, harmony and the ability to address differences without resorting to violence.