Insights From Volunteers

  • “Cure for Mental Wounds”: How Volunteers From Kazakhstan Help to Restore Ukrainian Schools

    “Cure for Mental Wounds”: How Volunteers From Kazakhstan Help to Restore Ukrainian Schools

    For eight months now, a charitable project of helping for Ukraine Angels of Freedom has been operating in Kazakhstan. Volunteers organize meetings (toloka), where everyone can make an angel doll or simply purchase a handmade talisman. The funds raised from the sale are used to restore schools damaged by Russian shelling. How the project was started, what kind of people it unites and why, its organizers, Iryna Semenchuk and Yevgeniy Ribalko, told.

  • “We Have Divided This World Into ‘Mine’ and ‘Not Mine’”

    “We Have Divided This World Into ‘Mine’ and ‘Not Mine’”

    Gaukhar is a yoga teacher, nutritionist, she had worked as an HR-specialist for a major construction company. A few months ago Gaukhar began to help to the Angels of Freedom project. We inquired why it is important to her and how events in the neighboring country are seen in the yoga philosophy.