[000:00:00;00] of the orphanage sonechko from odesa, and it was after my agreement with spain, erdogan, they are now in ankara, our embassy also took a very active part , they take care of them, it is especially nice that in this case, emine, how motherly they treated it, and she visited them, she spent time with them we played for quite some time and it was really clear that this was a sincere action on her part, not just because we agreed, i asked, and this is the direction of our cooperation with the first kind, it really is such a synergy because all mothers, all uh everyone is hurting and they immediately respond and immediately try to help. i am grateful to you for this. and i understand from your activities

that you communicate not only with children who left without their parents, because this is yours. it seems to me that this is a wonderful story about reading ukrainian for children abroad, i admit it that mine are also suffering without books, they would also be abroad now, they are also forced to suffer without books, i have to transfer these books there, how did this idea even come about? this is a whole program in your conversations. we understood that there is an opportunity, there is an opportunity to do it and it is clear that people who, especially in the first months, quickly left home, they hardly put a book in their suitcase, but reading at night, especially when mom reads to the child, is such a corner of peace and normality of a normal family evening that it is really important and i am happy

that this project not only happened and is ongoing, we already have more than 2,080,000 copies distributed to children and libraries in more than 30 countries. that is, ah, hmm, we have feedback from mothers and from children who feel it not just how it is, again, so everyday home warm things and what is the connection with the motherland, because the books i already have are ukrainian and i really want our children to stay abroad for a long time , after all, he did not tear himself away from us from ukraine and in his education about what we we are constantly trying to communicate with the host countries, yes, and from the point of view of demand, because a book is as important to a child as a toy. i am very grateful to everyone who joined this project, first of all, to our ukrainian book publishers who provided their

layouts for free, this is really great money and so on the copyrights of our authors were issued free of charge and then our e. hm diplomatic institutions abroad on m. they were looking for money , they were looking for sponsors e. support and already printed all these books on the spot. that is, they were not exported from ukraine, some possible amount was exported - it was exported and exported, but in the majority the scheme is exactly like this, that is, the country that accepts helps us create books for ukrainian children. can read and it is for reading with moms that we have one cool project er beat

time stories and he he is also very i don’t know so oppressive i feel from him he is our er ukrainian guy from lviv who has been living in lviv for a long time in the netherlands, he invented it, and it is also about books that you can buy five books there and give it to someone, it is a whole network, he created it. that is, you can order these books as a gift to some family or child. and one more option is that you can read them there is an application you can go to qr-code and you can read this book to a child in the voice of a relative, for example, when a father is a soldier and is at the front, he can read a book to his child and she will open it on her phone , open the book at the same time and it will seem that what is being read at that moment is being read to her at night or

a grandmother who is far away or in there are some celebrities there who invited us not to read ukrainian texts. i also read them. my colleagues from austria and germany will be branders now, ladies of austria, they also read it. in separation it does not mean that we left for one it's some kind of program for a phone or a tablet yes it's a program for a phone or a tablet 10 time stories uh, it's just how to search there for different authors, uh, not only ukrainian uh, i read a book by ukrainian authors, but there are also uh, dutch authors

authors, etc., that is, the books are all in three languages, that is, the child can read ukrainian and, for example, german, eh, it depends on the country of residence, i will read especially the souls of ms. olena. well, as part of your humanitarian activities in this position , you also founded, as far as i understand the elena zelenska foundation, what was the need for its establishment and what does it do, are there any restrictions on the topics, i dragged myself with this decision for a long time because i did not see the need for additional funds in my activity, it seemed to us that we always seemed to do it somehow differently , but with the beginning of full-scale er aggression requests for help became more and more regarding children deprived of parental care there regarding humanitarian aid , medical equipment, etc. and at the same time er

the number of offers grew, for example during of my visits abroad about what, let's help. through whom can you get involved in, for example, rebuilding a specific hospital or helping the children of such a region? and let 's do it through you. and when you understand that this puzzle is being put together, you need to take this step and act some additional administrative possibilities. that is, it can be done faster than for each individual project of individual partners. with whom, it is not so fast , all this can be done, so two months ago , we already made a presentation in new york of the first foundation, the federation is primarily designed for the business funds of patrons and other funds abroad. that is, we accumulate funds abroad

in order to use them in ukraine, and we have several areas of interest to us in the fields of medicine, education, and humanitarian aid of medicine, we now have a project to restore the raisin hospital , which, unfortunately, suffered a lot during the occupation and was looted, but the doctors work there , there are such brave people, there are simply such wonderful stories that it is impossible not to take attention and there are patients there who do not have normal medical care. that is, this is our focus of attention now, education, we are trying to help teachers online in the world , several batches of laptops from our partners

have already been delivered to ukraine, the restoration of schools and other educational institutions is also a priority and humanitarian aid in first of all, we take care of people who need help in the occupied territories, we help them survive the winter, everything that gives heat, gas heaters, dryers , blankets, sleeping bags, etc. family -type houses, this is also what you ask. i continue to take care of children. there are many of them now and evacuees from dangerous areas, and it is clear that in the new city they do not have the proper living conditions that they need, so we provide everything that is necessary, that is, at the request of furniture to, again, smartphones from clothes to even grocery sets. that is, you are like saint nicholas for them, i

hope , but we are going. to help uh, but here we are talking about children, this activity around children, i remembered that well , what else ? it doesn't always work out, the topic of school meals seems to fall away, they said correctly that last year we worked a lot on it, we made such a huge leap, and in january this reform began to materialize, and of course, in the first

months, there was simply despair and to myself because of that that we have to stop because it's the first time to talk about some kind of healthy balanced diet when you just had to feed sometimes it was, well, it was wrong and uh , it was difficult, but happiness uh, anyway, uh, we don't stop, too much effort was invested already in this program, too many people worked to make it happen and we are happy that for the last few months we continue it works again and the platform has always worked, we know where uh all information about uh reform is uploaded and it is added now, materials are added there about exactly those eh hmm moments that are now difficult eh in school food, it is clear what eh when a child does not go to school, eh

, how about the school cafeteria there is nothing to talk about, but you can give advice on how to prepare a child in those conditions in which it is now possible at home or for those schools that still work, advice and how to deal with constant power outages , etc. and then the training program for chef teachers who train chefs for schools started and what i am most pleased. this is a pilot project. two months ago, we launched the construction of a so-called kitchen factory in the city of bucha together with the american philanthropist howard buffett, and it will be a large enterprise that will feed cook 10,000 portions per day and can

feed all schools. of the three closest communities, it's an interesting project, because it's really possible to control the quality and performance of work separately at one enterprise, and not to search in schools to see how it happens, and i 'm sure that we'll be able to scale it already other communities are interested and want to see how it will be done. we really hope that on september 1, from september 1 , schools will begin to eat from this factory and i am also very pleased that mr. howard is so actively cooperating with us, it is surprising if not surprising it's just gratifying and i'm glad that he's not even ukrainian, he's an american, he's such a patriot of ukraine in this situation, he's really burning with the desire

to help, when such people with great opportunities have such a great desire to help , then we like to do joint projects. i'm really looking forward to when we launch it at the end of august. it's good, that is, it's already in the plans . it's in the plans. it's good that this school meal didn't stop. it doesn't stop. it would be great. i remember my school meals, i agree, it's better that's why it's impossible to stop, you just need to develop , but for this you need mental health , you take care of it, the national mental health program is my question, i wanted to ask how you

see it because well, i don't think it's a big deal it is a secret to say that ukrainians are cautiously skeptical about the provision of psychological help and to turn to a psychologist for professional help, it is necessary to take a certain step and dare to do this, how will you give yourself pleasure with this or maybe you are already giving advice with the whole program, we give and we will give all together, i am sure that society will connect and they have already connected, the topic is a hot topic that is being discussed by everyone at all platforms and we understand that we are on the right path. first, i will start by saying that ukrainians are not the only such the majority of the world, the majority of people, hmm, started with the same thing. and when we consider the foreign experience, for example, in britain and in ireland and in belgium, the same situation existed at

the beginning of their work on similar similar programs, and the most important thing for us now is to create a clear model for the patient, that is, the patient's path when he will understand what to do in any situation, and now the ministry of health is taking care of this , that is, this program is under their leadership, and we are greatly helped by the international organization of health care and expert and financial. i am sure that we will achieve some visible results in the near future . at the moment, the audit of the existing system is being completed . because there are many of us specialists, there are many opportunities for help, not only state but non-state, but you need to see them all , understand and to make sure that everyone works together is the best. i think the news in this

is that big problems with psychological mental health can be avoided if you know how to provide self-help. first for yourself, this is the first time yes, and then to know where to turn to a specialty - a first-level specialist, in fact , many people here do not understand the difference between a psychologist, a psychiatrist and psychotherapists . and this is a huge difference, that is, a psychologist is a person who will talk to you 10 he will give you some clear instructions so that you yourself, a psychotherapist is the same person as a doctor who can sometimes prescribe some medicines there, they are not complicated and you will not be chained to a hospital to any institution, and a psychiatrist is

already a person who treats diseases mental that is why in our spheres it is very often confused in the head and everything with the word psycho immediately evokes associations with soviet psychiatric hospitals , people who have turned to specialists with , for example, a problem with bad sleep or with the fact that i get tired quickly, but know how to help, because we all have to, and that is why a large communication program is starting, which is already in development, and at the final stage we will tell you what it is and why you should not be afraid of it, why it is easy to get help, it is easy to regain consciousness, it is easy to be energetic and a useful member of your society if that's what you want, that's why we're working. i'm sure there's a lot of work ahead of us. but we have opportunities to gain other worldly experience

. our specialists have already come to study in belgium. we're working with israel. they'll be in the coming weeks from another team is going to great britain, we will take all the foreign experience that suits us, unfortunately, not all of it , because our situation is unique and we have our own unique ways to find them too, but i am sure that our experience will be needed later many in other countries too, but i am afraid that our experience will be filled by our own mistakes, of course we can borrow some practices, but the consequences of this war for society will obviously be much longer than we can imagine now and the number of people with psychological injuries is this post-traumatic syndrome and the number of people with disabilities, they will all need

a public review of the general attitude and communication within society above last year it was presented in september if i i don't remember, i'm not mistaken, such a guide on barrier-free accessibility then it looked like a normal european attitude towards people was mostly imagined, well, barrier-free accessibility is for the ramp to be convenient and not for a tick, so that people are not called names, and now you somehow see the expansion of this the concept of barrier-freeness in connection with the war. well, you said it right. it's great that we've already been on this path in previous years. to reduce especially for those people who suffered the most. this is a really big task that we all have to complete

the barrier-free guide. last year it was presented for the first time as a digital version. and we said then that it would be such an open source site. we will constantly update it, and during the immediate invasion we updated and added sections that became necessary already during the war. that is, there are tips on how to deal with elderly people, for example, who do not want to evacuate, how to help a person with autism during an air raid when she doesn't react the way she doesn't want to, for example, go to the bomb shelter, well, etc., that is, such soldiers in wartime are called this section, and unfortunately it is relevant, but we took one more

step, uh, we printed it and by the way, it it is really barrier-free in itself, it has braille , that is , everything. and we talked about there are qr-codes, you can go to the audio options to listen to everything, and we presented it. caused the attitudes of the people who saw there, let's continue this work, the most important thing now is that we don't forget why all this is being done, it's happening again about restoration, we have to restore it so that it is better than before there is no longer any doubt about ramps, elevators, etc., because on it's a pity that we already have more people with disabilities and we have to give all people who received this disability during the war the same opportunities to live in socialization that they had before

. they should not fall out of society. they should continue an active life, so i i am sure that we will continue to work with barrier-free physical and psychological solutions, again, there are more people around with others, they are different . yes, someone does not have an eye. that it is the majority of the increased number of people who have the consequences of the war that will give all of us, the whole society, the understanding that we should no longer treat people with disabilities as something that does not concern us, it is the people who live next to us. that is, you consider

barrier-free if i understood correctly, not just how these elements are psychological and physical, but if i heard it correctly, and in principle the possibility of a new space for reconstruction according to new principles , because the cities that we will have to rebuild will require, obviously, not the reproduction of that architecture of boxes, which was but also a new point of view. indeed, barrier-freeness in general - this is a philosophy, it is, work on this project will never end, because this is because barriers never end, and barriers there are social barriers, there are economic barriers, there are language barriers , there are physical psychological barriers, and each of us is an architect, so

it really hurts me. and especially in terms of barrier-free accessibility, all regulations are there, everything can be looked at, by the way, there is another such block of work that we carried out this year, these are albums of barrier-free solutions, there are already four albums, and they apply not only to the yard of the house, er, spaces public use that is, all areas of construction are very usefully and conveniently collected there , precisely those dbn and those standards and examples of their implementation , so that you do not have to search in this complex document. it is clear to architects, builders

, designers, urban planners, to everyone who has a relationship with construction and architecture, barrier-free information dissemination, we will present all four books in january and uh, we want to present this right away, uh, as an architect and a student and an architectural university and a developer, and we will distribute ms. elena, look, we somehow concentrate with you around your activity as the first lady, which is traditionally important for the first lady, and this is, in principle, such a sphere of humanitarian care just this year, starting from february , or rather from the summer .

in strasbourg, you spoke at the un general assembly when the president had not yet left for foreign trips, for obvious reasons, you were in fact a full-fledged representative of the country at those moments. well, that's how it turned out. well, i think it's good that there was an opportunity to hear the voice of ukraine not only by video link, but also live . what do you think of this performance of the duties of the first lady, which you obviously did not count on in the 19th year, that is, diplomacy is not part of your duties, but it became part of the duties, there were no duties at all , no one prescribes yes, we all choose it ourselves uh, the sphere of activity, but cultural diplomacy was also and uh, but it is clear that after february everyone's life changed and we each had who has a voice to speak about what is happening to us, in principle, i did it from

the first weeks. when they started to arrive requests for interviews and already there ... at first, i couldn't even go online, it was a written interview, but then we built up these stamps and then online speeches, everyone who wanted to hear me , foreign media... all publications, everyone heard for it was very important to me that those who believed that the war was felt somewhere far away, that it is not far away, that it is not far away, that it applies to everyone, what is happening to us, that a modern , civilized country in the center of europe is suffering from terrible aggression from shocking aggression, so when the opportunity arose to go, it was for the first time to the congress, and it was already for them

by invitation and of course i was very afraid and really worried, this is a huge responsibility, i am not a professional diplomat and understanding the situation only understanding the situation does not give you the opportunity to achieve the goal, and the goal was needed once again to unite around ukraine, and that's why the president worked with me before leaving , we together developed the concept of the speech itself , together we thought in what words and in what way should i convey our opinion to the congressmen i think i managed to say that it was step by step maybe there is nothing to say about comfort, but we all haven't had to think about comfort for a long time, and about these zones, they all left together and

it's so scary here, but when you've already taken this step, for example, on the podium of the congress, then the fear disappears because that you know what you will say that what do you want to say and it is easy for me in this regard. i ah spoke the truth and said it in the words i wanted to say, it was not difficult for me to do it, i thought now, you are obviously the only presidential couple in the world so far who spoke at the congress, well, not together we still need to get together. you understand this, but even if they were once historically, within one year, they are definitely the only one. it seems to me that the first lady did not speak at the congress at all . well, this precedent should have been used . this is a chance. i am sure that we did not miss it his speech at the congress i already said the it