Новини
An adaptive club was opened in Novoyavorivsk with training conducted for military personnel, veterans, and people with disabilities
16 january 2025
On January 15, a mobile hoist for safe swimming of people in wheelchairs was presented at START Sports and Health Complex, Novoyavorivsk.
Mykhailo Kuchma, coach of START Sports and Health Complex, says: “Nowadays, everyone is important in their place. Being a rehabilitation specialist, I wish to help our heroes cope with challenges when restoring physical health after injuries. Water has healing properties and helps during this difficult rehabilitation process.”
Opening the adaptive club was ensured by Time to Act, Unstoppable! Competition, which received a grant from MHP-Gromadi Charitable Foundation under the co-financing conditions within MHP Poruch reintegration program for military and veterans and the State Institution “All-Ukrainian Center for Physical Health of the Population ‘Sports for All’” supported by the Ministry of Youth as part of the presidential Active Parks – locations of a healthy Ukraine project.
Yegor Alekseyenko, the Head of the Event Department of State Institution “Sports for All”, noted: “Establishing adaptive clubs is an opportunity for every veteran to restore physical activity, find support, feel their strength, and fulfill their potential. We are always ready to account for the veterans’ needs when planning and implementing this project. The veterans’ opinion is our priority.”
START Sports and Health Complex is one of the 15 competition winners who received grant support to install a mobile hoist under co-financing conditions.
Tetiana Valanchius, Director of Zakhid-Agro MHP, Western Hub: “In the communities of our company presence, we are happy to respond to the residents’ needs. Therefore, within MHP Poruch program, we also supported the grant competition Time to Act, Unstoppable! held by our strategic partner, MHP-Gromadi Charitable Foundation. Such spaces are an opportunity to create conditions in towns and villages for our veterans and military personnel to adapt when returning to their homes. As the defenders themselves claim, these are needed not only for training and physical fitness but also for communicating with their brothers in arms.”
During the presentation, Mykhailo Kuchma, the coach of the complex, held an open master class on functional training and showed the guests how to use the hoist.
“The caring community residents who applied for Time to Act, Unstoppable! competition made the club opening in Novoyavorivsk possible. Our Charitable Foundation and MHP Poruch program intended to support military personnel, veterans, and their families will always help develop such projects. After all, adaptive sports for veterans and people with disabilities are a key element of physical, psychological, and social recovery,” says Volodymyr Panchenko, National Projects Manager ofMHP-Gromadi Charitable Foundation.
Additional information:
Time to Act, Unstoppable! is a grant competition allowing communities to get up to UAH 400,000 to establish an Unstoppable adaptive club in their village or town.
The project is implemented on the territory of 13 regions of Ukraine, namely: Vinnytsia, Volyn, Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Lviv, Poltava, Sumy, Ternopil, Khmelnytskiy, Cherkasy, Chernihiv regions, and the City of Kyiv.
Project partners: MHP-Gromadi Charitable Foundation within MHP Poruch reintegration program for military and veterans, State Institution “All-Ukrainian Center for Physical Health of the Population ‘Sports for All’” as part of the presidential “Active Parks – locations of a healthy Ukraine” project, Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine.
The project is intended to establish and arrange community sports centers adapted for people with disabilities, including those injured during the war, where they can take physical exercises, communicate with like-minded people, and get professional support from qualified coaches, thus promoting reintegration into the community’s social life.