The Ukrainian Veterans Foundation of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine invites you to the forum “Respect. Experience. Perspective”, which will take place on June 27 at 1 p.m. at the Ukraine-Ukrinform Media Center (Kyiv, 8/16 Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Street).
Registration is required: https://forms.gle/tkJkteMwuP3oib6AA. The main goal ia to develop the dialogue with the veteran community about the opportunities for veterans in their path of reintegration, education and employment.
The event will consist of three panels in the areas of:
- Veteran policy: challenges of Ukraine
- Retraining and education
- Employment
More than 15 experts in various fields will take part in the forum: from business to educational opportunities. Each of them is working for the future today, not by words, but by actions and decisions. Everyone keeps the current requests of veterans in focus.
Speakers of the first panel “Veteran Policy: Challenges of Ukraine”:
- Yulia Laputina — Minister of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine
- Nataliya Kalmykova — Executive Director of the Ukrainian Veterans Foundation of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs
- Taras Chmut – the director of the Come Back Alive Charity Foundation, a member of the Supervisory Board of the UVF
- Moderator: Oleksiy Tarasov is the editor-in-chief of Radio NV.
Speakers of the second panel “Retraining and education”:
- Ruslana Velychko – First Deputy Executive Director of the UVF
- Representative of American University Kyiv (AUK)
- Roksolyana Voronovska is the head of UCU-online
- Tetyana Zhukova – VMGO “Social Vector”
- Svyatoslav Nikolaychuk – NGO “Podilska Development Agency”
- Victoria Shynkarenko – veteran, NGO “Regional Veteran Union of ATO Participants of Rivne Oblast”
- Moderator: representative of civil society
Speakers of the third panel “Employment”:
- Andriy Remizov – director of the State University “Office for the Development of Entrepreneurship and Export”
- Ilya Shpolianskyi is a veteran of the Movement of Veterans of Ukraine
- Tatyana Rozumiy is the wife of a veteran, owner of a shoe store
- Representative of Ukrzaliznytsia
- A representative of Ukrposhta
- Moderator: Vladyslav Hryzev — CEO Lobby X, coordinator of TEDxKyiv
The participants will be treated to a performance by a special guest, as well as the veteran’s wife Oksana Makarova, veterans Denys Dudnyk, Volodymyr Skosogorenko and Taras Yakobchuk, who will share their stories of the path to the dream and its realization.
The main information partner is Radio NV.
Organizer: Ukrainian Veteran Foundation of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine.
