#98 From Crisis to Construction: Women, Health, and Civil Society in Wartime Ukraine

<p>At the <a href="https://studentsforliberty.org/blog/kyiv-renaissance/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">2026 Ukrainian Renaissance</a> conference in Kyiv, we put together a panel on mental health, PTSD, supporting people in a war-torn country, and related issues. After more than four years of full-scale war, the panelists discuss how mental health needs have changed, from the daily toll of air raid alarms to violence against women and children. They also cover Barnahus child-friendly centers, resistance to sexual education, funding cuts and the shortage of psychologists outside the big cities, and why Ukrainian organizations should be treated as equal partners. In the Q&amp;A, they answer a question about living with PTSD.</p><p>It features two of the three Ukrainian mental health organizations that our humanitarian mission, Operation Kyseláč, supported in 2022:</p><ul><li><strong>Olha Lopushanska</strong>, Associate Programs Director at <a href="https://healthright.org/where-we-work/ukraine/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">HealthRight International</a></li><li><strong>Daryna Ivchenko</strong>, Deputy Director for Programs at <a href="https://divchata.org/en" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Divchata</a></li></ul><p>The panel was moderated by <strong>Anastasiia Farbun</strong>, a Kyiv-based psychologist and art-therapist.</p><p>Support our humanitarian mission in Kherson <a href="https://savekherson.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://savekherson.org/</a></p><p><br></p><p>Our thanks to <a href="https://nesehnuti.cz/about/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Nesehnutí</a> for their recommending Divchata and HealthRight when we were looking for partners in mental health and for helping us put this panel together.</p><p><br></p><p>Transcript available here:<a href="https://inlist.cz/98-from-crisis-to-construction-women-health-and-civil-society-in-wartime-ukraine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"> https://inlist.cz/98-from-crisis-to-construction-women-health-and-civil-society-in-wartime-ukraine/</a></p>