Within the framework of the Forum, Deputy Head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk and Head of Poltava Regional Military Administration Filip Pronin met with university students with the IDP status together with the IDPs living in the dormitories of Poltava Polytechnic and its structural subdivision Poltava College of Oil and Gas.
The constructive dialogue took place in a landmark place – the state-of-the-art Student Hub of Poltava Polytechnic, which is the base for the Invincibility Point, recognised as a model in the Poltava region. At the initiative of Iryna Vereshchuk, the meeting was held in the format of an open conversation: everyone had the opportunity to share their own experience of adapting to new living conditions and talk about the difficulties faced by IDPs in host communities.
“A sincere conversation is the best way to see how everything works,” – said the head of the Poltava Regional Military Administration Filip Pronin. He stressed that the Poltava region is carrying out comprehensive work to support IDPs in accordance with the regional target programme, which aims to provide maximum support to people who have been sheltered in the region’s communities.
Rector of Poltava Polytechnic Volodymyr Onyshchenko thanked the participants of the meeting for their positive feedback about the conditions of internally displaced people and for recognising the algorithm of supporting students with IDP status together with the campus residents for whom the dormitories of Poltava Polytechnic became a second home.
Iryna Vereshchuk highly appreciated the significant contribution of Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic to the integration of internally displaced persons into the communities of the Poltava region. “If the mission of the IDP Councils is to professionally advocate for the rights and interests of IDPs, our common goal is to fully integrate people with difficult fates into the communities, in particular, the Poltava region. The result of such meetings is a collective search for solutions and at the same time a presentation of achievements. What I heard and what I saw today is the evidence that Poltava Polytechnic has become an important part of the institutional infrastructure for supporting internally displaced people in Ukraine thanks to the coordinated work of the team headed by Rector Volodymyr Onyshchenko,” – summed up Iryna Vereshchuk.
It should be recalled that the regional authorities held a motivational meeting with the students of Poltava Polytechnic.
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