The Council of Europe provided the grant to the non-governmental organization “Kharkiv Crisis Information Center”, whose team has created and is running the informational media project Nakypilo since 2014.
The grant was provided within the Council of Europe Immediate Actions Package/ Project “Support to Safety of Journalists, Media, and of Access to Information”. The funds are aimed at creating multimedia (audio, video, text) stories of residents of Kharkiv and Kharkiv region who suffered from the war or defended the state as soldiers or volunteers.
The main goal is to document stories related to armed conflict on the territory of Kharkiv and Eastern regions of Ukraine; to raise awareness of foreign audience about the armed conflict on the territory of Kharkiv and Eastern regions of Ukraine through people’s stories; to increase the production of quality content for the target audience and its distribution.
"Thanks to the support of the Council of Europe, we were among the first to reach the de-occupied areas of the Kharkiv region and talk about life there," says Olena Leptuga, head of the NGO “Kharkiv Crisis Information Center”.
She says that the team is proud of the story about the resident of Balaklia, with whom they travelled by first restored after occupation train from Kharkiv to her city: "We made a multimedia story (text, video, podcast, photo) in order to comprehensively convey the experiences of Ms Natalia, who was returning home and didn’t know what she would see there."
Radio Nakypilo airs a Derzhprom Station program (by correspondents Maria Malevska and Oleksandr Brynza) about wartime Kharkiv and people thanks to whom the city remains Ukrainian. Text versions of the podcast are also available on the Nakypilo website.
Additional information: CSO “Kharkiv Crisis Information Center” is known under the brand Nakypilo was created in 2014 as a media project independent of politicians and business in Kharkiv to cover the topic of war, the problems of internally displaced persons, popularization of volunteer and public organisations from the Eastern regions of Ukraine, and information support of cultural and educational initiatives.
The Project “Support to Safety of Journalists, Media, and of Access to Information”, including communication strategy for the Prosecutor General’s Office in Ukraine is being implemented under Adjusted Priority Action Plan for Ukraine 2018-2022. It aims to support the Ukrainian media community in addressing current needs and consequences of the Russian aggression and war in Ukraine.
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- "It could be an action drama with screenplay awards, but this is our life." How the Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine creates content with the support of the Council of Europe
- With the support of the Council of Europe. How the "Information Press Center" covers the situation in the temporarily occupied territories of southern Ukraine
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