Success stories

Students of the Mariupol branch of the Ukrainian Leadership Academy (ULA Mariupol) left Mariupol a few days before the war started. They continued their studies in Ternopil. Volunteering is an important component of the study program, with each student aiming to devote 120 hours to volunteer activities. In fact, each student has now contributed more […]

Viktoriia and Oleksii Sorokiny from Zaporizhzhia began developing a family snail farm three years ago. The day before the war started, they opened a sales point in the city center offering burgers with snail cutlets. War temporarily interrupted their business, but the couple have now resumed work, and internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Mariupol and […]

IT company QuartSoft closed its office in Kramatorsk in March 2022 and decided to look for a safer region to work in. While some employees went abroad, a third agreed to move to Ivano-Frankivsk, where the firm had had a small office since 2014. This has grown significantly to more than 50 people, some working […]

Victoria Karpova moved her apparel business to Lviv from Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast. Before the war, the businesswoman developed a training center at home and her own sewing workshop, where she made stylish clothes for the whole family. Now again she is teaching beginners sewing, but the clothes they make are for the military. Karpova has […]

In March 2022, the East Ukrainian Technocluster left Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast. Four of its member companies relocated their employees and computers to a safer place. “I looked at the map of the war and decided that it was dangerous to stay at home any longer, so we had to go. It is impossible to work […]

Ihor Vynohradov, an entrepreneur from Donetsk Oblast, moved equipment in April from his two pizzerias in Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad to the city of Dnipro. He now bakes up to 500 pizzas a day which he delivers to people in Donetsk Oblast who are hiding in shelters or basements due to shelling, or who are on […]