Psychological support from ADRA Ukraine: we help restore human dignity and the power to be yourself
Psychological support from ADRA Ukraine: we help restore human dignity and the power to be yourself
The war changed all — daily habits, thoughts about security, the concept of «normality». But even in the darkest times, people are able to look for light. Protection and support centers within the MHWP (Mental Health, Winterization, Protection) — project simply helped to see it.
Within the framework of the MHWP project (with the assistance of the Government of Canada and ADRA Canada), we worked in five regions — Sumy, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Mykolaiv. In six cities — Kyiv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Sumy, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv — there were centers where people could get physical and emotional safety. We worked by phone, online, on the road, in shelters. During the shelling and even in complete darkness — however, SUPPORT always remained here.
During the project:
- More than 23,000 people have completed individual or group sessions of psychosocial support.
- Hundreds survived the loss of home, loved ones, the second or third forced evacuation — and found new meanings of life.
- People who survived the shelling began volunteering — after stabilizing their emotional state.
- Those who did not have the strength to leave the house began to communicate, study, work, dream again.
- People with thoughts of suicide who stood on the edge, after support, returned to life with dignity and self-belief.
- Women who experienced gender-based violence received not only psychological support, but also confidence that their life is important.
- People who lost everything they considered — the basis of home, relatives, plans for the future, — found themselves again.
- Some of them allowed themselves to cry — and be heard for the first time in their lives.
- Other — believed for the first time that even in old age you could start a new story.
This project is not just about mental health. It’s about human dignity, the power to be yourself and not be alone.
We have created spaces where people find their way. And this is the strongest thing that can be in conditions where everything around is collapsing.
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