Mariupol Women’s Association «BEREGINJA»
(Mariupol Women’s Association «BEREGINJA»)
Our team started its activities in the stormy year of 2015 on a volunteer basis, and less than a year later there was an urgent need to create an official organization. This is how the Mariupol Women's Association "Bereginya" was born. The organization was created from the number of resettled women and volunteers, who were united by a common desire to help those who needed help and a sense of responsibility for people. We started our activities at a time when thousands of confused people who lost their homes, their usual lives, and loved ones due to military operations were arriving in Mariupol. From the first days, the team started working according to the principle of case management, which quickly proved its effectiveness.
Multidisciplinary teams, consisting of a case manager, a lawyer-advocate and a psychologist, are still working in Mariupol and the administratively subordinate Vynohradny, Pionersk, Talakivka, Hnutovo, Sartan districts, as well as in the Volnovask, Marinsk, Nikolsk and Mangusk districts. The work in each of them has its own specificity, it depends on how close the demarcation line is, whether the settlement is a host community for displaced persons, on...
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