Signs of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are present in 44% of Ukrainian children.
Such data of the study of children’s well-being in Ukraine “Index of the Future” conducted by the Kyiv School of Economics on the initiative of the Olena Zelenska Foundation and with the support of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Ukraine are quoted by the Health Ministry on its website.
In addition, according to the study, the share of children vaccinated against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis has decreased by 16% since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the share of children vaccinated against polio has decreased by 22%.
According to the study, the current vaccination rate against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis in Ukraine in 2023 is 37% lower than in EU countries.
In addition, according to the study, 13% of children aged 14-17 systematically (at least once a week) drink alcohol and 16% smoke cigarettes. Moreover, boys resort to such risky behavior more often than girls. In addition, 56% of children have consumed alcohol at least once, 53% have tried smoking, and 3% have used drugs.
According to the survey, 71% of respondents consider themselves happy. At the same time, this assessment was more often given by children from the East of Ukraine and Kyiv most often said.
At the same time, 44% of children in Ukraine have signs of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The study was based on data from five sources: government and open sources, quantitative studies of children, interviews with experts and graduates and alumni of institutional care.
The study included a representative online survey with 1,313 respondents aged 0-17 across Ukraine, excluding temporarily occupied territories.
Earlier, the Kiev-based think tank Experts Club announced the launch of a project on psychological recovery of people with the help of art therapy. Read more about the project here – https://open4business.com.ua/ru/stolichnyj-uchebnyj-czentr-experts-club-vmeste-s-art-gallery-universe-otkryl-programmu-art-terapii-dlya-postradavshih-ot-ptsr/
Given the current challenges related to preserving life and health in wartime, it is of great importance to train journalists to act effectively in extreme situations. That is why the Experts Club think tank hosted a regular workshop on first aid for media representatives in Kyiv.
The organizers, including Experts Club, the ADONIS medical center network, and the Help For Ukraine and Pryirpinia Community Foundation charitable foundations, emphasized the importance of first aid skills for journalists, especially those working in risky environments.
The seminar included lectures and practical classes conducted by anesthesiologist Mariana Bolyuk. The participants learned the basics of basic life support, methods of stopping bleeding, and how to apply tourniquets. Such training is extremely important, given the statistics of casualties among journalists in military conflicts.
“The war has significantly increased the risks for journalists, so the development of first aid skills should be part of their professional development. Our colleagues constantly face risks and bear great responsibility. That is why we strive to provide them not only with information, but also with the means to save their lives,” emphasized Maksym Urakin, founder of Experts Club.
According to Urakin, such initiatives are planned to be expanded to include more representatives of the media community and other professions that are at increased risk during the war. This, in turn, will not only help to save the lives of journalists, but also help in providing first aid to the victims until the arrival of medical professionals.
“At a time when the information field is full of news from the frontline, professional training of journalists to act in emergency situations becomes an integral part of their responsibility to society,” said Tetiana Lagovska, Executive Director of the Pryirpin Community Foundation.
In his turn, volunteer Oleksandr Holizdra emphasized that the education and training of journalists will not only contribute to their own safety, but will also increase the efficiency of their work in difficult conditions, which is key to informing the public and maintaining overall security.
The Experts Club project plans to expand its program to include more journalists and bloggers. Training in this critical area should become a standard for media representatives, as the role of journalists in society becomes increasingly important and dangerous in times of conflict. The development and support of such initiatives is a step towards increasing the level of security in society.
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On Saturday, March 2, Kyiv will host a training seminar “First Aid for Injuries and Traumas” specially designed for journalists and bloggers. The event is organized by the Experts Club Kyiv Analytical Center with the support of its medical partner, ADONIS Medical Center Group, and its general partner, Pryirpinia Community Foundation.
The training aims to teach participants the basics of first aid in case of injuries and traumas, which is an important knowledge for everyone in times of war.
The seminar will be conducted by an anesthesiologist and co-author of 12 scientific publications, Mariana Bolyuk, who is a representative of the ADONIS Medical Center Group.
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Net immigration of people from Ukraine to Germany in 2023 amounted to 121 thousand people, which is almost eight times less compared to the 2022 figure of 960 thousand, but still more than an order of magnitude higher than the pre-war figures: in 2019-2021, net immigration amounted to 5-7 thousand people per year, Germany’s Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) said on Thursday.
Based on a special assessment of the preliminary results of migration statistics, it specified that in 2023, about 277 thousand immigrants from Ukraine and 156 thousand departures to Ukraine were recorded, while in 2022, about 1.1 million people arrived from Ukraine and 138 thousand returned.
Last year, the lowest net immigration was recorded in April-May – 3-3.5 thousand monthly due to the increase in departures to 15.7-16.1 thousand, the highest – in January-February, 18-18.9 thousand.
In September and October 2023, net immigration after the spring-summer downturn rose to 10.7 thousand and 14.1 thousand, respectively, due to a decrease in the number of those returning to Ukraine, but in November and December it fell to 10.6 thousand and 7.3 thousand, respectively, due to a decrease in arrivals to 20.9 thousand and 17.3 thousand, respectively.
Destatis noted that the age and gender distribution of immigrants from Ukraine in 2023 changed compared to 2022: the share of women and girls among entrants decreased to 53% from 63% a year earlier, immigrants under 18 years of age decreased to 28% from 35%, while the share of immigrants between 18 and 60 years of age increased to 61% from 54%. The share of immigrants from Ukraine aged 60 and over was 11% in both 2022 and 2023.
Thus, according to the statistical office, 61% of immigrants from Ukraine from 2022 are women, 34% are minors. It is specified that, according to the preliminary results of the microcensus, about 40% of those who immigrated by the middle of 2023 were single parents and their children.
“The high level of immigration from Ukraine has led to the fact that the population with Ukrainian citizenship in Germany increased from 138 thousand people in January 2022 to 1.15 million people in October 2023. The share of Ukrainians in the total population increased from 0.2% to 1.4% over the same period,” Destatis pointed out.
According to his data, in October 2023, citizens of Ukraine were the second largest group of foreign population in Germany after citizens of Turkey (1.6%, or 1.39 million people).
It is noted that the highest share of the Ukrainian population – in Hamburg and Berlin: since January 2022, it has increased respectively from 0.21% to 1.67% and from 0.37% to 1.61%.
In October 2023, most Ukrainians lived in the most populous federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia (234 thousand), Bavaria (168 thousand), Baden-Württemberg (159 thousand) and Lower Saxony (114 thousand). However, if we look at the share of Ukrainians in the total population of the respective federal states, a different picture emerges: in addition to Hamburg and Berlin, the largest share of Ukrainians was also in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (1.54%), Saarland (1.52%), Thuringia and Bremen (1.51% each). Rhineland-Palatinate, Schleswig-Holstein and Brandenburg (1.2% each) were the least populous, followed by Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia (1.3% each).
According to Eurostat data, Germany has granted temporary protection status to 1 million 251.25 thousand Ukrainian refugees at the beginning of 2024 and has been leading Europe in this indicator for many months. A year earlier, there were 936.38 thousand of them, and at that time the first place was occupied by Poland, where 956.76 thousand people had such a status.
US-based Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company, has unveiled a new version of its flagship artificial intelligence (AI) model Gemini.
The new Gemini Pro 1.5 model is capable of processing several times more audio, video and text than the GPT-4 model, on which the popular ChatGPT chatbot is based, Wired writes.
In particular, Gemini Pro 1.5 can simultaneously process 1 hour of video, 11 hours of audio, 700 thousand words or 30 thousand lines of program code.
As part of the demonstration, it analyzed the transcript of conversations with the crew of the Apollo 11 spacecraft, presented as a 402-page PDF file, and found several funny moments in it on demand, including the words of the astronauts that the contact was delayed due to a break to eat sandwiches.
Google expects that the new features of the model will allow developers to create new kinds of applications based on it.
The new version of Gemini is already available to them on the AI Studio platform and through Vertex AI’s cloud-based application programming interface (API).
There is no word on when the model will be released to the general public.
On February 10-11, the Ukrainian Squash Championship 2024 took place at the courts of the capital’s Sport Life fitness club in Teremky, bringing together 120 athletes from all over the country. The competition was attended by representatives from Kharkiv, Dnipro, Poltava, Odesa, Kherson, Lviv and other regions of the country.
Anastasia Kostiukova and Denis Podvorny became the champions in the adult category, defeating their rivals by demonstrating a high level of skill and invincible spirit. This victory was especially significant for Denys Podvornyi, as he managed to return to the competition after a year of recovery and win his 7th Ukrainian title, losing only two games to his opponents.
Full list of tournament winners:
Boys under 9 years old:
1st place Kostyukov Artem
2nd place Nikolai Filipov
3rd place Mark Grabovsky
Boys under 11 years old:
1st place Schneider Artem
2nd place Matyukhov Egor
3rd place Horbunov Ivan
Girls under 13 years old:
1st place Syvoplias Victoria
2nd place Orlenko Oleksandra
3rd place Krasnokutska Daria
Boys under 13 years old
1st place Andrii Hutsailiuk
2nd place Doroshenko Gleb
3rd place Tomenchuk Mykyta
Girls under 17 years old:
1st place Krykun Anastasia
2nd place Vlasenko Daria
3rd place Tarasova Anna
Boys under 17 years old:
1st place Panchenko Artem
2nd place Danylo Kurilyak
3rd place Shcherbakov Yegor
WOMEN:
1st place Kostyukova Anastasia
2nd place Krykun Anastasia
3rd place Sardak Liana
MEN:
1st place Podvorny Denis
2nd place Panov Nikita
3rd place Petrovych Ruslan
The organizers expressed their sincere gratitude to the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the opportunity to host and conduct such events. They also thanked the Sport Life club network for providing courts free of charge, Interfax Ukraine, Experts Club and Maxim Urakin for their media coverage of the tournament, as well as Thermopab represented by Alexander Batashov and KRAINA for their tireless support and assistance in organizing the tournament.
Special thanks go to Tecnifibre for valuable gifts for the children’s categories, as well as to all the players and referees who were able to join this sporting event.
This championship confirmed that even in difficult times, Ukrainians retain the ability to unite, grow and achieve great success. The winners and runners-up in the children’s categories once again reminded us of the importance of sport in developing young people and strengthening the national spirit.
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