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Children from Ukraine, who fled the war with their relatives and found temporary shelter in Poland, received an Educational Book for Preschoolers in Ukrainian language as a gift from the Cifers Foundation and publishing house “Sammit-Book”. The presentation of the publication took place in Krakow on the eve of the Constitution Day of Ukraine on 22nd of June 2022.

The two-volume Book for Preschoolers" is recommended by the Institute for Modernization of Education Content of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine as a teaching aid for education of 5-6 year old children within the "New Ukrainian School" framework. The manual contains various interesting tasks for children, which help to prepare the child for school: they develop logic, spoken language, imagination, memory and thinking of preschoolers, as well as teach them writing and mathematics. The book was published specifically for distribution on the territory of European countries where refugees from Ukraine are temporarily staying.

 "We supported this project for Ukrainian children to get their first education in the Ukrainian language. That is, with the help of their mothers or older relatives, they could learn letters and numbers, develop speech, read Ukrainian poems and calculators, learn to think logically, paint and develop. In fact, when I first got acquainted with the manuscript of this book, I looked through all its chapters with great pleasure. I think that this is a very necessary book for Ukrainian children abroad. The books flew out instantly, there is a hunger for Ukrainian books here in Poland," said Anastasia Cifers, co-founder of Cifers Foundation, who was presenting the Book personally.

The Book was prepared by a team of authors of the Kyiv publishing house "Summit-Book": Olena Zavitaylo, Andriy Bodeychuk, Olena Khomchenko, Yuliya Berezhko-Kaminska, Svitlana Cherednychenko. The first print run of the book is more than 2,000 copies. Another edition will be printed soon according to demand.

The presentation of the Book for kids took place in the Krakov Public Library (Wojewódzka Biblioteka Publiczna). Ukrainian children's writers Inesa Dolennyk, Valentina Voznaya and Mila Radchenko also took part in the event.

The books are distributed with the assistance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Opolgraf, Embassy of Ukraine in Poland, “Women's Territory “NGO.

More about the event at the following links:

https://day.kyiv.ua/uk/article/den-ukrayiny/knygy-dityam-z-ukrayiny?fbclid=IwAR19EKMqklTHkIo3cMxnoi-6LtHzqdqwLrBeKmQM2VDQs9fWyLnPsc7OZfw 

https://www.polskieradio.pl/398/7856/Artykul/2987252,For-Ukrainian-preschoolers-in-Krakow-and-Warsaw-brought-books-for-development?fbclid=IwAR3ik0r4adP_0EobNLSayuAXOZKyoInFLDKj6JlkN3E4Ji4FHa_4sifJ914 

https://sadeczanin.info/informacje-ukraina/dlya-ukrayinskih-doshkilnyat-u-polshchu-privezli-knizhki-dlya-rozvitku 

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On June 1, on World Children's Day, the Kyiv publishing house "Samit-Book" announced the start of printing the educational manual for Preschoolers in Ukrainian language. These books are addressed to children who were forced to leave Ukraine to escape the war. The Cifers charity foundation finances the printing of the book for Ukrainian children to learn their native language even in a foreign country.

The Book for Preschoolers is published in 2 volumes. It contains various interesting tasks for children that help prepare the child for school: they develop logic, spoken language, imagination, memory and thinking of preschoolers, as well as teach them writing and mathematics. The two-volume book is recommended by the Institute for Modernization of the Education Content of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine as a teaching aid for working with children aged 5-6 within the "New Ukrainian School" framework.

A team of talented Ukrainian artists and writers worked on the creation of the manual: Yulia Berezhko-Kaminska, Olena Khoma, Andriy Bodeychuk, Olena Zavytaylo and Svitlana Cherednychenko.

The distribution of books will be carried out with the assistance of the structures of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, as well as in partnership with the project "Books without borders”.

The first edition of the two-volume Book for Preschoolers is 2,000 copies. And it is assumed that the first to receive them will be small Ukrainian refugees in Poland.

More is at the following links:

https://uazmi.org/news/post/9ffee5c30d0d88d2faeb0703cb87c800

https://narodna-pravda.ua/2022/06/01/vydavnytstvo-samit-knyga-bezkoshtovno-nadrukuye-knygy-dlya-ukrayinskyh-ditej-yaki-vymusheno-perebuvayut-u-polshhi/

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Employees from four different organizations, The Fay Group, QBE LLC, My Medic, and The Cifers Foundation have teamed up to purchase and deliver medical trauma kits to help the people of Ukraine. Each kit includes lifesaving medical supplies to those injured during the ongoing Russian invasion of that country. The kits were delivered directly to personnel in the field, and depending on the severity of injuries, a single kit can support two to three people. This effort has provided kits for close to 500 people, with more support to come.

What is going on in Ukraine right now is a humanitarian tragedy," said Ed Fay, CEO of The Fay Group, which donated funds to support this effort. Kits were assembled by My Medic in Utah, shipped to Poland, and then transported by land across the border to Ukraine. Assembling and shipping the kits took about two weeks from start to finish. Each kit normally costs $230, but My Medic lowered the cost to $175 in order to increase the total number of kits that are sent. According to Tyson Farr, Vice President of Sales at My Medic, "These kits are a tremendous way to deliver badly needed medical supplies, so we are pleased to be able to step up and partner on this project."

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