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VITAL VOICES OF EURASIA: A LEADERSHIP SUMMIT FOR WOMEN & GIRLS
 Seven of the girls-winners of First Step to Success program-2006 and three 2007 winners took part in the work of Vital Voices of Eurasia: A Leadership Summit for Women & Girls, among the presenters of which were Kateryna Yushchenko, Chairperson of the Ukraine 3000 Foundation and the President’s wife; Araseniy Yatsenyuk, the Foreign Minister; Right Honorable Kim Campbell, Former Prime Minister of Canada; Baroness Mary Goudie, Member of the House of Lords, UK; the Honorable Jolanta Kwasniewski, Former First Lady of Poland and President of Communication without Barriers; Olena Franchuk, the Founder of ANTIAIDS Foundation; Ruslana Lyzhychko, Member of Parliament and singer and other famous persons.The summit participants (winners of 2006 program):
· Alekseenko Natalia (Chervonohrad, Lviv region)
· Chubchenko Kateryna (Tokmak, Zaporizhia region)
· Hutsol Anna (Khmelnitskiy)
· Kvitka Ksenia (Donetsk)
· Serhachova Elina (Komsomolsk, Poltava region)
· Shust Anna (Donetsk)
· Ziborova Olha (Odesa)
The girls took an active part in the summit’s work and presented as youth experts during the strategy sessions around such topics as:
§ Women as an Economic Force
§ Getting Women to the Power Table
§ Women Facing Human Rights Challenges
§ Identifying Women’s Rights Challenges
§ Tools for Positive Social Change
§ Women Leading Change in Public Life
Besides, the girls took part in the Closing Session and presented the young women-leaders of Ukraine during the Plenary discussion "Rising Voices of Eurasia: The Next Generation of Leaders".
Vital Voices Global Partnership through the Ukrainian Women’s Fund keeps in touch with the girls and encourages them to new achievements.
RESULTS OF THE GRANTS COMPETITION WITHIN THE FIRST STEP TO SUCCESS PROGRAM
Supported projects
 Project manager: Chubchenko KaterynaProject title: School of deputy activities for girls
Organization: Ortega-y-Gasset Civil Development Institute, youth NGO
Description: Starting the School of deputy activities for girls-leaders aged 14-20. Conducting trainings on public speaking, gender equality, development of leadership skills. Meeting of the prarticipants with famous women and women-deputies of the city council. Involving girls in social activism.
Budget: $495
Project manager: Bas Vasylyna
Project title: "The Best"
Organization: Association for the Promotion of Rural Green Tourism in Ukraine, Bar regional branch – "Podolyanka" recreation center in Vinnytsia region
Description: Conducting "The Best" contest for girls aimed at raising the level of importance of harmonious and comprehensive development of girls.
Budget: $495
Project manager: Alekseenko Natalia
Project title: Leaders! The Future is in your Hands!
Organization: City Students’ Parliament, Chervonohrad youth organization
Description: Assisting in solving problems of girls aged 13-18 from crisis families through promoting their participation in social life of the city, involving in the process of information exchange through teaching in pilot classes on the basics of journalism and publishing and sharing "100% Youth Newspaper".
Budget: $486
Project manager: Hutsol Anna
Project title: Women’s Lens
Organization: New Ethics Women’s Youth organization
Description: Forming gender equality in contemporary photo art through conducting competition and exhibition of photo works of the girls of Khmelnytskiy region.
Budget: $342
Project manager: Shust Anna
Project title: "Who is the Master of the House?"
Organization: Nota Bene Youth Organization
Description: Visualizing stereotypes of gender misbalance in the Ukrainian society through performing a theater play "Who is the Master of the House?" and discussing it with the spectators (in the schools of the region and the city recreation center). Conducting the contest of creative works in gender issues among school students.
Budget: $285
Project manager: Ziborova Olha
Project title: Colors of your Life
Organization: Creative Center for Individual Development
Description: Involving girls with special needs in social activism and self-actualization through visualizing peculiarities of their lives. Conducting trainings, workshops, TV programs, photo exhibitions, etc.
Budget: $477
Organizational committee of the FIRST STEP TO SUCCESS program invites the winners of essay contest to take part in the grant competition, which is the following stage of this long-term program.
At the meeting in Kyiv on June 28, 2006 and during the following months the girls proved to have a great deal of interesting ideas, sincere desire, strong energy and strength to change our country for the better, to make positive influence on development of just society and form a new wave of young leaders in Ukraine. Each of them takes an active part in the country's social life and, which is the most important, believes in her potential. That's why we offer to realize own leadership projects and ideas through participation in a grant competition. So, we invite girls-winners to participate in mini-grants competition.
Financing is provided for implementing a practical concrete idea directed to raising the role of women in society.
The candidates for writing proposals are girls who already work within NGO and wish to implement own idea in the framework of socially important project; as well as girls who are planning to create their own youth organization to implement such thoughts and ideas.
Preference will be given to the projects that have clear and concrete results, suppose creative and innovative approach, as well as team work, involving others to sovling the problem.
Maximum amount of the expected grant - 2500 hrn (USD 500)
The project term - up to 6 months.
To take part in the competition it is necessary to fill the application form and send it to the address of the Ukrainian Women's Fund (vul. Artems, 79, office 38, Kyiv 04050) by regular mail before February 10, 2007. Late proposals, as well as those not complying with the competition terms will not be considered.
All the participants will be informed about the results before march 10, 2007.
If you have additional questions, please, apply to:
MEETING OF THE “FIRST STEP TO SUCCESS” PROGRAM WINNERS
Meeting of the “First step to success” program winners took place in Kyiv on
June 28-29, 2006.
“First step to success” is the long-term campaign initiated by aconsortium of NGOs – the Ukrainian Women’s Fund, the Center for Ukrainian Reform Education (CURE), “Help Us Help the Children-Ukraine”, the Ukrainian Children’s Aid and Relief Effort -- (UCARE) and the Women’s Health and Family Planning Foundation. The campaign is directed to promote leadership skills among Ukrainian girls to help them learn about social activism and to inspire them to become engaged participants in
Ukraine
’s social sphere.
Hundreds of girls aged 16-22 from all the regions of
Ukraine
took part in the Women’s Leadership essay contest. 51 winners were chosen on a competitive basis.
On June 28 these girls attended the meeting with Kateryna Yuschenko, the President’s wife, and famous women who achieved success in different spheres of activity. The meeting was organized in the form of business lunch which assisted in direct communication between girls-winners of the contest and successful women – politicians, businesswomen, TV stars, actors, sportswomen, singers, etc.
Owing to the support of donors and sponsors the girls received numerous gifts.
We believe that experiences, achievements and personal gains of adult women could inspire and support a lot of young, active girls apt to make positive changes in their own lives and the life of whole society.
In the second part the girls had training and obtained knowledge in gender issues, leadership and CV writing skills, exchanged experience, communicated with one another and with the event organizers.
The campaign is continuing and now the documentary is being created; it will include materials of the girls-leaders stay in Kyiv and interviews with them.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS OF “FIRST STEP TO SUCCESS” PROGRAM
Alekseenko Natalia, Chervonohrad, Lviv region, School ¹ 2
Barylo Telyana, Nadvirna, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ivano-Frankivsk vocational school ¹ 1
Bas Vasylyna, Bar, Vinnytsia region, school ¹2
Chubchenko Kateryna, Tokmak, Zaporizhia region, school of general education¹ 5
Chuhuyeva Olena, Mykolayiv, Mykolayiv humanitarian high school
Fedchenko Olesya,
Sumy, school of general education ¹ 9
Halyshynets Yulia, Vidnyky, Lviv region,
European
University
of Finance, Information Systems, Management and Business, department of economics and management
Havrysheva Iryna, Zaporizhia, School of general education
Hukalo Inna, Novohrad-Volynskiy, Zhytomyr region, Novohrad-Volynskiy school of general education of ²-²²² stages ¹ 2
Humenichenko Anna, Ladyzhynka, Cherkasy region,
Uman
State
Agricultural
University
Hutsol Anna, Khmelnitskiy, Khmelnitskiy Economical University
Kalyta Iryna, Chernihiv,
Kyiv
National
Linguistic
University
, department of translators.
Karagodina Darya, Zaporizhia, Educational complex "
Humanitarian
School
¹25"
Kononchuk Iryna, Ostrozhets, Rivne region, Ostrozhets educational complex
Korotchenko Yelizaveta, Znamyanka, Kirovohrad region, school of general education ¹ 3
Kozlyuk Olha, Kamyanka, Rivne region, Kamyanka school of general education
Kutsai Yaroslava, Kyiv, Kyiv high school of economics and law
Lysa Maria, Smolyava, Volyn region, Berestechko vocational school ¹ 27
Maksymyak Olha,
Lutsk, Volyn region,
Volyn
State
University
named after L. Ukrayinka
Masalova Snizhana,
Sevastopol, the
Crimea,
Tavrida
National
University, department of Slavic philology and journalism
Matviychuk Nadia, Kyiv, Kyiv National University named after T. Shevchenko, department of biology
Mazalova Dilyara,
Simferopol, the Crimea, High school ¹1
Mishchenko Nadia, Zaporizhia, Zaporizhia Pedagogical College
Myronyuk Oleksandra, Zdolbuniv, Rivne region, School of general education
Nechayeva Natalia, Kryvyi Rig, Dnipropetrovsk region, Kryvyi Rig Mining and
Technological
Vocational school
Ostapyuk Anastasia, Chertivtsi,
Pedagogical
College
at
Chernivtsi
National
University
named after Y. Fedkovych
Potas Angelika, Zaporizhia, "Elint" Collegium
Razumkova Yevhenia, Dnipropetrovsk,
Dnipropetrovsk
National
University, department of systems and means of communication.
Rud Iryna, Bratslav, Vinnytsia region, Specialized boarding school
Rutchyk Natalia, Kunka (Haysyn), Vinnytsia region,
Uman
State
Pedagogical
University, department of foreign philology
Selytska Yana,
Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region, "Harmony"
Nikopol
residential school ¹1 for orphans and neglected children
Sereda Anna, Oborotnivka, Luhansk region,
National
Technical
University
"Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute", department of business and finances
Serhachova Elina,
Komsomolsk,
Poltava
region,
Poltava
State
Pedagogical
University
named after V. H. Korolenko. Assistant of the deputy mayor for quality and administrative issues
Slepchenko Tamara, Danylivka, Luhansk region, Luhansk branch of Inter-regional Academy of Personnel Management, specialty – economics of labor and personnel management
Stepanenko Anna, Nova Vodolaza, Kharkiv region, Nova Vodolaza high school
Tarkaniy Hanna, Uzhgorod, Zakarpattya region,
Uzhgorod
National
University, department of journalism. Coordinator of Uzhgorod Reform Press-club
Temnenko Zeineb,
Simferopol, the
Crimea, school of general education ¹7
Tolmatska Inna, Novokrasnivka,
Donetsk
region
Shcherbina Chrystyna, Ternopil, Halytskiy college at Halytskiy Institute named after V. Chernovol, department of international tourism
Shust Anna,
Donetsk, school of general education ¹8
Shyryaeva Anastasia, Kharkiv, school of general education ¹51
Vasylchenko Anna, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ivano-Frankivsk Natural Sciences and Mathematics Lyceum
Vasyuta Andriana, Volya, Lviv region, Educational complex"Strilkivska boarding school at Lviv National University named after I. Franko"
Vlasenko Darya, Lubny,
Poltava
region,
Lubny
College
of finance and economics at
Poltava
State
Agricultural
Academy
Yavorska Hanna,
Kherson,
Kherson
State
Agricultural
University, department of biology and technology
Yefimenko Maryna, Kalynivka, Kyiv region,
Academy
of
Tax Services, Irpin
Zavalko Yulia, Hola Prystan,
Kherson
region,
Kherson
State
University, department of culture, library science
Zibrova Olha, Odesa, Christian Humanitarian and Economic Open University
Zinchenko Lilia, Shyshaky,
Poltava
region, Shyshaky regional boarding school for talented children
“FIRST STEPS TO SUCCESS” PROGRAM
A consortium of NGOs – the Ukrainian Women’s Fund, the Center for Ukrainian Reform Education (CURE), “Help Us Help the Children --Ukraine”, the Ukrainian Children’s Aid and Relief Effort -- (UCARE) and the Women’s Health and Family Planning Foundation – are launching a campaign to promote leadership skills among Ukrainian girls to help them learn about social activism and to inspire them to become engaged participants in Ukraine’s social sphere.
The three- stage campaign will run from March through December 2006. It will include 50 young woman leaders (girls ages 16-22) selected on a competitive basis from all regions of Ukraine.
The chosen participants will be able to:
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Spend 2 wonderful days in Kyiv, June 10-11, and get acquainted with woman leaders, who play an important role in the cultural, political, social and business life of Ukraine
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Receive mentor advice from women leaders concerning their professional careers
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Take part in training and professional education programs
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Receive start-up grants to create their own NGOs
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Realize own leadership projects and ideas
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Become heroes of a documentary about a new generation of Ukrainian female leaders
Contact persons:
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