The guests of the University Adrian Award and Julie Colgan, volunteers of the Canadian organisation GlobalMedic, talked about the achievements of Lesya Ukrainka University, the realities of the educational process under martial law, and the volunteer activities of students and lecturers.
Rector Anatolii Tsos emphasized his readiness to cooperate with the organisation and to provide his effective assistance in the preparation and holding of actions in support of the Ukrainian population.
The volunteer movement in Ukraine during russian aggression is an unprecedented phenomenon in world history. Our volunteers are brave, courageous, heroic people, the driving force in the fight against the enemy, but they also need training, skills and abilities to qualitatively and effectively help the population or the military during war, natural disasters, and more. How to develop internal motivation in volunteering, to prevent volunteer burnout and correctly implement your volunteer ideas will help us in the future with the volunteer centre that the guests proposed to create on the basis of the University.
Such an idea was supported by the coordinator of GlobalMedic activities in Volyn, Head of the NGO “Medicine in Action”, a Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University graduate, Nataliia Krutsko.
Ahead is the development of joint programmes, their implementation in action. Today is an introduction to lecturers and students. It is extremely gratifying that from the first days Canadians were impressed by our Ulyana Kolesnyk, a second-year student of the Faculty of Foreign Philology, who professionally performed the role of an interpreter and introduced the guests to the history of Lutsk, conducted walking tours in her free time, and has already received an invitation for further cooperation. Everything will be Ukraine!
Larysa HODIK-PONIEDIELNIK,
Associate Professor of the Department of History of Ukraine and Archaeology
