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height=\"691\">\t\t<\/figure>\n\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wpcp-swiper-dots swiper-pagination\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<!-- If we need navigation buttons -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wpcp-prev-button swiper-button-prev\"><i class=\"fa fa-angle-left\"><\/i><\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpcp-next-button swiper-button-next\"><i class=\"fa fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The main activity of \u201cOselya\u201d is organization of life and work in the <a href=\"http:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/?page_id=36\">Community<\/a> of homeless people. This is a group of people, which live and work together. They have a common household, solve their life problems and help those who are poorer.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2015, 35 companions lived in the Community, three children among them.<span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the community people get a psychological support, a referral to a medical check-up, pocket money, help in re-issue of lost documents, participate in cultural events, are also actively involved in solidarity actions, help others. Newcomers participate in social training \u2013 three months courses that include addiction therapy, personal development training, history of Emmaus movement. A psychologist and a social worker carry these trainings every day.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2015, we received financial support from Abbe Pierre Foundation for improving living conditions and energy saving in the community. The project started this year and it will continue in 2016.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2015, Henry Nouwen Foundation and (\u00abICCO\u00bb) supported rehabilitation program for the companions. The program includes extra social and psychological support of the companions and additional addiction therapy.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cEmaus \u2013 Oselya\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/?page_id=963\">collects used goods<\/a> from citizens (clothing, furniture, books, dishes, toys, household equipment etc.). Every day two trucks pick up those goods in the city.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To make the collecting of goods more efficient and for comfort of Lviv inhabitants, we put 18 containers for clothing, shoes and books in 16 locations in the city. This initiative is not only social but also ecological. The goods are not thrown away as a waste, but are being sorted carefully. We also sell the unusable goods for recycling. In 2015, we sold 80\u00a0000 kg of clothing for recycling. The Cargill Company (\u201cProvimi\u201d) produced and put a clothing container in Ivano Frankove village in Lviv region to collect clothing for our community.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lviv municipality helps us with the social advertisement on the city billboards.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2015 Henry Nouwen Foundation donated a truck to our group. That helped to improve our collections.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thanks to the support of European Emmaus groups, we enlarged and reequipped our depot. That improved a lot the sorting process.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The companions and volunteers sort, repair and sell collected goods in charity shop, or give for free to poor and homeless people as well as to internal refugees from Eastern Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2015, about 100 families received clothing and furniture for free. We also donated goods to other organizations: Christian association for youth and families, Community \u201cNasha khata\u201d, Charitable Foundation \u201cMyloserdya Starosambirshchyny\u201d. In general we donated 10\u00a0000 kg of clothing and much furniture to other organizations. More than 600 homeless people were regularly receiving clothing in Social support center during the year.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We donated much cloth and clothing to volunteers who produce nets for Ukrainian army.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/?page_id=74\">The charity shop<\/a> is one of Oselya activities. Here we sell goods that Lviv inhabitants give away like furniture, clothing, books, household equipment etc. The shop is a main source of the Community income and solidarity actions.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In September 2015 thanks to the support of Henry Nouwen Foundation, we enlarged our shop and opened bookstore and coffee shop.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On September 29, we held official re-opening of the charity shop. There was performance by \u201cPani Kurazh\u201d and musical part from State Art School.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Customers come to \u00abEmaus \u2013 Oselya\u201d to not only shop, but also to spend time in nice atmosphere, meet some people. That is why we organize different events in the shop. This year we had Easter eggs master class, buttons-therapy, and Saint Nickolas holidays.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We also started movie screening and literature meetings. For the literature meetings we invite one well-known writer and \u00a0\u00a0the one never published before. In 2015, we held two meetings of this format.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/?page_id=25\">Furniture workshop<\/a> is one of the main activities of Oselya. The workshop is a center of work therapy, education, as well as a source of income for the community.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2015, fifteen companions studied and worked in the workshop. They had an opportunity to get skills on furniture renovation, upholstery, and sewing.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Citizens of Lviv know about our activity and give their furniture for renovation, giving donations for our work.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Some people gives away used furniture and household equipment, which we renovate and sell in the charity shop. We also present another services such as furniture delivery, a visit of a craftsman to a client, consulting about choice of fabric.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2015, Mara Foundation donated overlock machine and different tools. Henry Nouwen Foundation donated professional sewing machine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This year we continued to run <a href=\"http:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/?page_id=53\">Kofoed&#8217;s social support center.<\/a> Homeless people who live on the streets and poor inhabitants of the city come here to take shower, to do haircut, to do laundry, get food every day. Generally in 2015 we had 6\u00a0504 visits from 616 people (every day we have 20-35 visitors). The running expenses of the Center were supported by Kofoed\u2019s School, the Social services office and Department of economic policy of Lviv municipality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Solidarity with poor people is one of the main values of the Community. We cook and d<a href=\"http:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/?page_id=49\">istribute food <\/a>for 100 people every week since 2003.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">During street work, we inform homeless people about the places where they can receive social service.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2015, we did 50 food distributions.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For the <a href=\"http:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/?page_id=1002\">Saint Nickolas holiday<\/a>, we distributed 160 presents for people in need.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For <a href=\"http:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/?page_id=999\">Christmas and Easter<\/a> our Community organizes a big holiday celebration for about four hundreds poor people to share a holiday joy with them. In 2015, we held those holidays in Lviv Art Palace. Performances, songs, and carols accompanied actions by \u201cGych\u201d band. Invited people felt like participants of a true family holiday. Traditionally local enterprises and people are donators of this action.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This year many internal refugees from Eastern Ukraine came for Easter breakfast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In <a href=\"http:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/?page_id=1109\">the social hostel<\/a> today we have 20 residents, ten of them are former companions of the Community.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> At the social hostel we have the social enterprise, a furniture workshop where two residents of the social hostel work. The charity shop called \u201cWorkshop of good deeds \u201cEmmaus &#8211; Oselya\u201d function in the social hostel too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/?page_id=1106\">The Workshop of good deeds \u201cEmaus \u2013 Oselya\u201d<\/a> functions at the social hostel since September 2012. That is a place, where Lviv citizens can donate goods, repair their furniture as well as to buy to support the social hostel.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The charity shop cooperates with other NGOs and sells the handicrafts they produce.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We invite volunteers and local citizens to different activities. In 2015, we had workshops on producing handmade postcards, Easter eggs etc. The resident of social hostel Sashko Horondi started his own business \u2013 handmade backpacks. In 2015, we held\u00a0four screenings within XII\u00a0International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Docudays UA.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At the social hostel we also run English language lessons for the children who come from low-income families.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2015, we continued the project of street social and cultural <a href=\"http:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/?page_id=72\">street magazine \u201cProsto neba\u201d<\/a>. It has two aims \u2013 to help the homeless to earn money and to provide social activity of the homeless, and to pay the public attention to the problem of homelessness. Many famous journalists, writers and public persons as well as socially excluded people work on the magazine.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2015, we published two issues, 3,000 copies of each and had three vendors. International Emmaus Movement finances the magazine.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Traditionally we sell the magazine biggest book fair in Ukraine \u2013 the Book Forum in Lviv. On December 5, we held the presentation of 28<sup>th<\/sup> issue at \u201cVilny prostir\u201d venue followed by discussion on the discrimination and internal refugee\u2019s issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Since November 2010, Oselya has cooperated with Lviv City Employment Center. It provides our organization with public workers. The Employment Center together with Department of economic policy of Lviv city Council pay for their work.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In Oselya public workers work in the Social support center, in the Community and the social hostel.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2015, 31 persons did public works in Oselya (4 in April, 4 in May, 4 in June, 5 in July, 5 in August, 3 in September, 3 in October, 1 in November, and 2 in December).\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">These human resources are very important for us because these projects aren\u2019t financed by the state, and because of important work we do all together to solve social problems of our city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On August 29<sup>th<\/sup>, we held <a href=\"http:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/?page_id=1169\">Garage sale named &#8220;French salon in Lviv&#8221;<\/a> with the main message \u201cGarage sales are not charity, but solidarity\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cEmaus \u2013 Oselya\u201d and street magazine \u201cProsto neba\u201d for a long time already cooperate with writers and artists, so together we can promote idea of solidarity and mutual support. At this garage sale, they helped our companions to sell goods.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Yuriy Andruchovych, Andriy Kurkov, Halyna Vdovychenko, Hryhoriy Semenchuk, Halya Shyyan, Rostysla Shpuk, Yevheniya Senik, and Mykhaylo Myrka participated in the garage sale.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We were selling clothing, books, furniture, bric-a-bracs etc. We also sold the exclusive collection of porcelain dolls and dishes donated by French Emmaus groups after Salon in Paris. Sashko Horondi presented his handmade backpacks.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Image Theater \u201cPani Kurazh\u201d performed show Fashion Voyage \u201cLviv \u2013 Paris\u201d. Our models created atmosphere of bohemian Paris. One could have seen famous French actors and singers on the stage as well as Coco Chanel.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cNasha khata\u201d baked French croissants specially for this event.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At the garage sale we collected 31 877 UAH for the needs of organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The companions, employers, and volunteers of Emaus-Oselya participate actively in different events, promote the idea of solidarity and share and enhance their experience.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2015, three members of our group participated at Emmaus Salon in Paris. One employer had trainings at Emmaus Lublin community, and another one participated in summer camp at Emmaus Aland.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We continued to participate in Emmaus Europe Regional Council and participated in Emmaus Europe Regional Assembly that took place in Manchester in September 2015.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In May, employers of \u201cEmaus-Oselya\u201d participated in the team-building and strategic planning training. The same training we had in September for the social hostel residents. In August, we had summer camp in Carpathian Mountains for companions and employers.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In September, 2015 new companions participated in one-week therapeutic training in Verkhovyna city. In March and December the community <a href=\"http:\/\/emaus-oselya.org\/eng\/?page_id=1038\">football team<\/a> participated in the competition between rehabilitation centers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cEmaus-Oselya\u201d is one of the main organizations in the city that works with homeless people. Oselya is a member of the Coordination Council on homelessness problems at the city and region councils. Students of social work of the National Lviv Polytechnic University did practical training in our organization. Traditionally local donators \u2013 private persons and enterprises \u2013 were involved in different actions. We continued the cooperation with NGO \u201cNarodna Dopomoha &#8211; Lviv\u201d, \u201cNarodna Dopomoha\u201d from Chernivtsi, the Community of mutual aid \u201cNasha Khata\u201d, and the Center of registration and night shelter for the homeless, the Book Forum etc.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In September 2015, \u201cEmaus \u2013 Oselya\u201d financed two-day team-building training for Community \u201cNasha khata\u201d. The representatives of Community \u201cNasha khata\u201d and Caritas Brody made study visits to our community.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cEmaus \u2013 Oselya\u201d is always open for guests and visitors who would like to see our work. This year we welcomed participants of Social Enterprise School, participants of youth program of Lviv Education Foundation and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>INCOMES IN 2015 3 871 362.39 UAH<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 752px;\" src=\"https:\/\/image.ibb.co\/nQHn5H\/2015i.jpg\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>EXPENDITURES IN 2015 3 389 092.62 UAH<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 699px;\" src=\"https:\/\/image.ibb.co\/fYXgXx\/2015e.jpg\" height=\"189\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Finances left for capital and operational budget in 2016: 482 269.77 UAH<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>PARNTERS OF \u201cEMAUS \u2013 OSELYA\u201d IN 2015:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">International Emmaus Movement; Kofoed\u2019s school, Denmark; Abbe Pierre Foundation; Lviv city council; Henry Nouwen Foundation; Lviv Educational Foundation; Lviv City Employment Bureau; NGO \u201cVynnyky Golden Youth\u201d; NGO \u201cMuseum of Ideas\u201d; Image Theatre \u201cPani Kurazh\u201d; Lviv Art Palace; \u201c!Fest\u201d Holding of emotions; NGO \u201cNarodna Dopomoga &#8211; Lviv\u201d; NGO \u201cNarodna Dopomoga\u201d, Chernivtsi; Sociology and social work department of National Lviv Polytechnic University; NGO \u201cBook Forum\u201d; Centre of registration and night shelter for homeless; Municipal center of social services for familiies, children and youth; Regional center of social adaptation; Community \u201cNasha Khata\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>DONORS OF \u201cEMAUS-OSELYA\u201d IN 2015:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Charity foundation \u201cPivdenny\u201d; Ltd. business concern \u201cLvivkholod\u201d; Ltd. \u201cDruk service\u201d; Ltd. \u201cAlfa \u2013 beta\u201d; Market \u201cShuvar\u201d; Company Cargill (Ltd \u201cProvimi\u201d); Ltd. \u201cLviv Alcohol Factory\u201d; Rotary club \u201cLviv &#8211; Castle\u201d; Ltd. \u201cCieFTi Ukraina\u201d; Restaurant \u201cVyshyvanka\u201d; Ltd. \u201cCarlsberg Ukraine\u201d, Individual donations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main activity of \u201cOselya\u201d is organization of life and work in the Community of homeless people. 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