Nomad.Liv is one of the NGOs that won the Varto+GO 2023 project competition from the Ukrainian Veterans Foundation of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs.
They are already implementing a project to develop family veteran businesses and businesses of active military personnel and their families. They work. They help. They inspire. They teach and even organize trips to the mountains. Moreover, the participants of the Nomad.Liv training program have already shown results – they have become winners of our contest program Varto: Golden Hands! So we are proud to tell you about our winners, who are educating our future winners.
Nomad.Liv began its journey of helping veterans in 2015. It was a project called “Psychological Rehabilitation and Mutual Support for Female and Male Veterans.” Since then, this project has included more than 100 events, such as hiking and kayaking. More than 1000 veterans from all over Ukraine have experienced the unique Zen of grief therapy and being in a circle of people like them.
Vitaliy Dyachuk, the founder of the Nomad.Liv project, realized that mountains heal. Vitaliy is a volunteer who returned from the combat zone and took a backpack and went to the Carpathians. As it turned out, it has a magical power.
In addition, psychosocial rehabilitation through hiking in the mountains was also implemented for veterans who lost their limbs. And in 2021, veterans who lost their limbs conquered the 5033-meter-high Kazbek Mountain (Georgia).
Assistance in psychological and mental rehabilitation for veterans and people with disabilities is the mission of the team of this NGO. But this year, Nomad.Liv is expanding the boundaries of its activities and will now help veteran entrepreneurship develop from startup to development. The project partners, the NGO PRO Women UA, are helping them with this. They conducted a study of the target audience, identified training and networking needs among businesses, and created a technique and methodology for training in family business development. The Ukrainian Veterans Foundation supports this initiative.
What will veterans receive? Assistance in developing their own business ideas and turning them into effective business plans. Counseling and mentoring support for female and male veterans and their families took place at the Tysovets Winter Sports Training Center of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. Training + development + beauty of the Carpathians – this is an effective formula. It is important that the training will also have a powerful rehabilitation effect for the participants.
As part of the Nomad.Liv project, at least 3 camps with mentors and psychologists will be held for at least 60 military personnel and their families.
The program “Family Business Development for Veterans” consists of the following blocks:
- business camp in the Carpathians for 7 days;
- mentoring sessions;
- work with a psychologist;
- assistance with submitting project applications for grant and investment competitions (we already have the first winners, and veterans participating in the project are the leaders of the rating list).
The program itself lasts for 6 months: a business camp (7 days) – weekly meetings with mentors online – master classes – monthly meetings with a psychologist online – consultations on project applications (on request).
The camps have already inspired 60 veterans from all over the country. You can join them. All events are open to female and male veterans, one of their spouses, and their partners by pre-registering on Nomad.Liv’s social media pages and in groups with opportunities in Telegram.
