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Oleg Berezyuk "Resident demanding - demanding the government. And vice versa. "
Reforms and confidence, we spoke with Oleh Berezyuk, director of "Administration Mayor" Lviv city council.
Oleg Ramanovych also represents our co-organizers of the Forum - the LCC.
Nina Hayduk, "Ecumenical Social Week performs state-Mission"
Nina Hayduk, Head Section of Social Work, Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Work, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, "Lviv Polytechnic" - representative of the co-organizers of the Ecumenical Social Week (ECT). Nina will report at the roundtable "Trust as a basis for social interactions between social reforms" in the 4th ECT. It is on this topic we have spoken with Nina Hayduk.
“Pilgrimage of Trust” held in three city temples
This year's interfaith youth meeting "Day of Trust" was held in Lviv on October 1 within the 4th Ecumenical Social Week. Young initiative people from the city and surrounding towns gathered to pray together, to communicate and get to know each other.
Social organizations in Lviv spoke about their activities
On October 1, social organizations of Western Ukraine had a fair within the frame of 4th Ecumenical Week. They demonstrated their own activity in Rynok Square.
Winner of “Ukraine's Got Talent” participated in the 4th Ecumenical social week in Lviv
A blind girl from Poltava, Olena Kovtun, winner of the “Ukraine's Got Talent 2” show, sang in the youth concert of Ukrainian music , held during the 4th Ecumenical Social week. She got the viewer’s choice and moved the audience to tears: “ I hope my songs will make the world a little better”.
Academic part of the 4th Ecumenical Social Week ended with summarizing
On September 30, the members of the 4th Ecumenical Social Week summed up the academic conferences and the round table discussions.
In parallel with the discussion, the members of the Ecumenical Social Week made a resolution and announced it on September 30, on the completion of all the round table discussions.
Reform activation in civil society
On September 30, a round table discussion titled "Reforms as a factor of civil society activation” was held within the 4th Ecumenical Social Week. Ukrainian and foreign experts discussed the reforms in the areas of leadership, political conjuncture, health.
How to introduce the reforms. A recipe from Liubomyr Husar
Ex-head of Church Liubomyr (Husar) expressed his views on the reforms being established by the current government. According to Bishop Liubomyr, dramatic changes in society are not taking place in Ukraine because of two reasons: laziness of those who implement them and the reforms themselves being not well thought-out.
Iryna Kitura: "A Social Sphere Is the Only Sphere That Hurts Us All"
On September 27 there was held a solemn opening ceremony of the 4th Ecumenical Social Week!
Today at a press conference the organizers of the Forum presented the project at the occasion of opening. Among the organizers were: the Institute of Ecumenical Studies, the Ukrainian Catholic University, the Lviv City Council, the Lviv Regional State Administration, the Lviv Regional Council, and Lviv Polytechnic National University.
The Academic Conference
The Government and the National Bank should be key players in promoting trust to financial reforms – a World Bank expert
"Compared to Norway, where 75% of the population trust the financial system of the State, in Ukraine 75% of the people do not trust anyone. The Government and the National Bank should be key players in promoting trust to financial reforms" – the World Bank Regional Program Coordinator in Financial and Private Sector Development for Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova, Marius Vismantas said at the academic conference of the Ecumenical Social Week.
