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In early 2020 Olesia*, 28, moved from a town in western Ukraine, where she lived with her husband and son, to work in the Netherlands. The year before, her husband had undergone heart surgery, but was told that he would need additional medical procedures. To pay for the next surgery, Olesia and her husband decided that she should seek work abroad. A certified psychologist and pedagogical university graduate, Olesia obtained a job as a caretaker for an elderly lady. After only a month in the Netherlands, the COVID-19 pandemic reached Europe.
SVOD is a Luhansk-based chemical company that produces household cleansers, pipe cleaning reagents, heat transfer equipment, and anti-scale filters that have been historically sold only in Ukraine.
Ukraine is undergoing a transformation driven by the need to access more competitive markets. The changes underway are a result of the loss of traditional markets in Russia, Crimea, and the urbanized areas of Donbas and the recent opening of an agricultural land market in rural areas. Access to finance is now even more essential for the country to reclaim its title as the “breadbasket of Europe.”
ARDS’ co-investment efforts support women, the elderly, and entire households
In February 2019, 14-year-old Renat and his mother were both diagnosed with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) – the most pernicious form of the disease -- and hospitalized at the TB dispensary in Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast. New anti-TB drugs were not yet available to them, and the probability of curing their illness was reportedly less than 30 percent.
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