“Even Here, Flowers Bloom”: residents of frontline communities share their lives through disposable cameras
“Even Here, Flowers Bloom”: residents of frontline communities share their lives through disposable cameras
ADRA Ukraine joined an initiative of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), as part of which residents of frontline areas received disposable film cameras to show daily life near the front line. On October 31, an exhibition of these photos opened at the gallery named “Lavra” in Kyiv under the title “Even Here, Flowers Bloom.”
As a partner of the initiative, ADRA Ukraine distributed cameras in communities where joint WFP projects are implemented, providing food and cash assistance (with the support of ADRA Switzerland). In particular, six disposable cameras were given to residents of Kharkiv region (the city of Izyum, and the villages of Vilkhuvatka and Dovzhanka in the Vilkhuvatska community of Kupiansk district) and Kherson region (the village of Osokorivka in the Novovorontsovka community of Beryslav district).
Over several weeks, people photographed their everyday lives — moments of joy, routine, resilience, and renewal. The film was later developed, and the images became the basis of the photo exhibition, which will run at Kyiv’s Lavra gallery until November 11.
The goal of the initiative is to show the world the real lives of those who remain near the frontline and, through the power of their stories, draw greater attention and support for humanitarian programs in Ukraine. Even where shells fly overhead, people hold on to the ability to see beauty and to appreciate life.
Tags
Share this publication
Our social networks
Categories
Last news
Due to the deterioration of the security situation in the city of Kherson, more and more people are evacuating the city and turning to the Kherson hub «Vilni razom» (EN: Free together) ...
People evacuating Kramatorsk, Sloviansk and other localities in Donetsk region arrive at a transit center in Kharkiv on September 16, the ADRA Ukraine team handed them 154 ready-to-eat food kits. The peculiarity ...
On May 6 at the ADRA Ukraine office in the city of Kyiv, a memorandum of cooperation was signed between ADRA Ukraine and the public organization «Kohnitio Hlobalis» Academy», which was represented ...
On May 6, ADRA Ukraine handed over modern hybrid inverters with battery units to educational institutions in the Kyiv region that suffered from the occupation in 2022 and intense hostilities. The aid ...
This year, ADRA Ukraine was included in the first fifty organizations of the National ranking «TOP-100+ of the largest charitable funds of Ukraine», which is conducted by the Association of Charities of ...
In the city of Samar, Dnipropetrovsk region, the ADRA Ukraine team drilled a borehole and installed additional equipment for the Central Regional Hospital for Intensive Treatment of the Samarivskyi district. The work ...
On April 26, the ADRA Ukraine team, in the framework of the ADRA Kids project, held an event for 30 children of vulnerable categories: with disabilities, internally displaced, as well as children ...
On April 23, a working meeting of the team of the JPF7 project, which is implemented by ADRA Ukraine with the support of Japan Platform and ADRA Japan, took place with the ...
Residents of the village of Novovorontsovka, Kherson region, located in a dangerous front-line zone, received food kits from the UN World Food Programme with ADRA Switzerland. Delivery and distribution of products was ...
In the ADRA Ukraine protection and support center in the city of Kharkiv, meetings were held for everyone who wants to improve their emotional state. The events were accompanied by a psychologist ...
From April 14 to 16, representatives of the Mykolaiv office of the Danish embassy paid a monitoring visit to locations in the Mykolaiv region, where ADRA Ukraine is restoring educational institutions. They ...
In the hub of the Lyptsi community of Kharkiv city, psychologist and facilitator of ADRA Ukraine held a meeting for residents of the community aged 50+ within the framework of the IHA ...
Despite the difficult security situation and constant shelling, residents of the city of Sloviansk and nearby communities of Donetsk region continue to receive humanitarian aid. ADRA Ukraine delivers products from the UN ...
During wartime, infrastructure recovery becomes not only a matter of comfort but of survival. Water, heating, safe schools and hospitals with uninterrupted access to water supply are basic necessities without which communities ...
In April, the verification process of multi-purpose cash assistance beneficiaries from the UN World Food Programme continues in the Kharkiv region. In particular, the verification is currently taking place in the city ...
On April 7, the ADRA Ukraine team, within the framework of the «Livelihood» project, implemented with the support of ADRA International, made a monitoring visit to the Kharkiv region, in particular to ...
Teams of the Ukrainian and Canadian representative offices of ADRA made a joint field visit to the Chernihiv region as part of the implementation of the “MHWP” project aimed at supporting the ...
In February, ADRA Slovakia, together with partners through the mediation of ADRA Ukraine, delivered seven powerful generators and two charging stations from Slovakia to the city of Odesa within the framework of ...
