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Together We Care: YMCA Moldova and YMCA Romania

Moldova and Romania are two of the most affected countries by the war in Ukraine as hosts of a large number of refugees. At the moment, there are around 380,000 Ukrainians that chose Moldova as their first country to go to, with around 550,000 Ukrainians opting to find refuge in Romania. “It was a big […]

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Back to Active Life

Last weekend, YMCA Ukraine in partnership with YMCA Europe Roots for Peace organized a two-day evaluation meeting within the project “Back to Active life: fighting Covid-19 challenges”. The event was implemented in a hybrid format, where offline and online participants came together.  The main topics were: how to use the art for peace building purposes, […]

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Back to active life: fighting Covid19 challenges – Project updates

The joint project “Back to active life: fighting Covid-19 challenges” of YMCA Ukraine and YMCA Europe “Roots for Peace” is successfully going on! After a series of online training sessions, delivered by the international team of trainers, the project participants started to share gained knowledge and skills in their YMCAs and their communities with very […]

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Let it be Campfire…

After the war, very few youth, social or cultural events can be seen in Artsakh. People seem to be ashamed to smile. Men are ashamed that they are alive, but their compatriots are not. Women are ashamed that their husbands are alive, but their friends’ husbands are not. Mothers are ashamed that they can hug […]

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“Back to Active Life: Fighting COVID-19 Challenges” start-up training

Dear YMCA family and not only! We are happy to share with you the good news: the joint project “Back to active life: fighting Covid-19 challenges” of YMCA Ukraine and YMCA Europe “Roots for Peace” is up and running! The first start-up training in the project framework took place in Kiev last week and was […]

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Back to Active Life: Fighting COVID-19 Challenges

We are proud to announce the launch of “Back to Active Life: Fighting COVID-19 Challenges” project organised by YMCA Ukraine in partnership with YMCA Europe Roots for Peace. The project will be implemented between May 4 2021 – January 4, 2022.

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e-bridge: 2021 Roots Peace Award Project Launch Event

May the Fourth may sound like a start of a quote familiar to millions of Star Wars fans all over the world, but for the Roots it definitely marked the Launch of another landmark initiative in the making – “e-bridge” project by YMCA Kosovo is an international endeavor aiming to build a peace & reconciliation […]

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Roots Peace Award 2021 Winners

It’s that special time of the year again! The time to acknowledge and celebrate our partners and supporters for the work they do, innovative ideas they develop and commitment they have shown towards the YMCA Europe Roots pursuit of peace and justice. Despite all the turmoil and difficulties caused by global pandemic, Roots stayed the […]

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ROOTS for me is…

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Be the PEACE you want

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Art4Peace

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Be a piece of PEACE

https://youtu.be/tsiLQZbJ2Mo

Music for PEACE – Way of life

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Peace Work Institute – First cohort

https://youtu.be/QU1m6g5viZA

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