The interaction with the participants of the NIZHNA project (Women's Unbreakable Initiative — Persistently and Actively) was started with two-day trainings with psychologists. Specialists taught internally displaced women who are trying to start a business or have relocated it, to improve their psycho-emotional state.
Psychologists helped women:
- understand the importance of motivation;
- determine values;
- develop self-esteem;
- learn how to properly use and restore your own resources.
Developing your own business is associated with getting out of the comfort zone and stress. Doing business in modern Ukrainian conditions adds uncertainty and risks.
The participants of the NIZHNA project learned to overcome difficulties, manage stress and anxiety. And thereby strengthen faith in yourself to achieve your business goals, despite fear or failure, and continue to move towards the goal.
“The training helped to know myself, find motivation, inspired and gave support for further actions! Thank you for doing this for people who have lost a lot, not only material, but also mental,” Julia from the Lubansk community shared her impressions.
“I received useful and important information for myself. I especially liked the practical classes,” said Daria from Valkivska hromada.
Women learned not how to never doubt, but how not to let those doubts guide their actions.
The project is being implemented by the UN Women in Ukraine Foundation and funded by the UN Women's Fund for Peace and Humanitarian Aid (WPHF), a flexible and operational financing instrument supporting quality measures to enhance the capacity of local women in conflict prevention, crisis response and emergency response situations and use of key peace-building opportunities.
This publication has been prepared with the financial support of the United Nations Women's Peace and Humanitarian Aid Foundation (WPHF), but this does not mean that the views and content expressed therein are officially endorsed or recognized by the United Nations.
Photo by CO “Light of Hope” /Stanislav Pantelei, Iryna Solianyk, Zhanetta Boiko
