Our vision
to increase the capacity of Ukrainian libraries during the war, provide services to vulnerable populations, promote the formation of Ukrainian identity, support physical and mental health. To inform foreign libraries about Ukraine, the consequences of the war for libraries and their needs.
Directions
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Supporting Ukrainian libraries as centers of social integration and cultural development.
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Providing libraries with resources for modernization and attracting new audiences.
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Creating a community of librarians through educational materials and best practices.
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Promoting reading and developing libraries as modern spaces for communication.
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Supporting initiatives that help libraries adapt to the challenges of war and crisis situations.
Activity Results
10
years of activity
100 000+
books donated to libraries
1000+
of libraries are involved in activities
300+
events for libraries
50+
development strategies have been developed
45
international partnerships of visiting libraries
100+
international libraries covered - cultural diplomacy
1500+
librarians have taken our created course on VUM
500+
in our bibliotherapy database
3
library networks have been created: Green libraries, Healthy libraries, Seed libraries
The fund's report for 2015
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The fund's report for 2016
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The fund's report for 2017
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The fund's report for 2019
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The fund's report for 2020
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The fund's report for 2021
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The fund's report for 2022
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The fund's report for 2023
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The fund's report for 2024
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News
23 March 2025
Libraries in Wartime;They turned bookshelves into embrasures;
"What role do libraries play in cultural life and community recovery? Why are books being targeted during Russian aggression? How are Ukrainian librarians going above and beyond to save not just culture, but readers' lives?" Writer Kateryna Yegorushkina tells the story. When the Kyiv region was liberated, I went to do testimony recordings. We gathered mostly in libraries or near their ruins. Ivankiv, Irpin, Bucha, Obukhovichi.
17 March 2025
He who owns the information owns the world, or how Trump bans books, cuts funding for libraries and closes media
In less than 3 months of his second term in the Oval Office, US President Donald Trump has made a number of decisions aimed at infringing on the rights and freedoms of citizens of the free world. Trump closed the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which was actively engaged in building democracy and spreading the values of equality among countries around the world, and terminated the DEI (Diversity, equity, and inclusion) programme.
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6 March 2025
Results of the fund's work in 2024
2024 was a year of new achievements, strengthening partnerships and scaling up initiatives. Together with libraries, communities and partners, we changed the library space, supported educational and social initiatives, and strengthened international cooperation. Throughout the year, we developed Healthy Libraries, bibliotherapy, international cooperation ‘Sister Libraries’, environmental initiatives ‘Green Libraries’, highlighted the creation of veterans' spaces in libraries, discussed the psychological aspects of veterans' reintegration, and launched educational projects and initiatives for librarians.
Foundation team
Members of the Supervisory Board
Lucienne Schum
Executive Director of the Foundation, member of the Board of the Network for the Protection of National Interests
Iryna Varlamova
project coordinator
Kateryna Alekseenko
Partnership Development Coordinator
Margarita Smaglyuk
SMM manager
Tamara Sukhenko
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Foundation, social psychologist, founder of the Facilitation Park facilitator agency
Yuri Gusev
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Azerbaijan since February 22, 2024, former Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine (2014—2016)
Oleksandr Krasovytskyi
Director of Folio Publishing House
Vladislav Kirichenko
founder of the publishing house "Our Format"
Viktor Kruglov
director of the publishing house "Ranok"
Igor Stepurin
founder of the publishing house "Samit-knyga"
Partners and Ambassadors
Richard Ovenden
British librarian and writer. He has been the head of the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford since 2014. Previously, he worked as a librarian at Durham University Library, the House of Lords Library, the National Library of Scotland, and the University of Edinburgh Library.
He was educated at Durham University and University College London, as well as in the doctoral program at Balliol College, Oxford.
He was awarded the Order of the British Empire in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2019. He is the author of the book "Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge" (2020).
He was educated at Durham University and University College London, as well as in the doctoral program at Balliol College, Oxford.
He was awarded the Order of the British Empire in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2019. He is the author of the book "Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge" (2020).
Yevheniya Kravchuk
Ukrainian politician, journalist, and communications expert.
Member of Parliament of Ukraine of the 9th convocation. Deputy Chair of the Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy, Head of the Committee on Culture, Science, Education, and Media of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
Hanna Hopko
Ukrainian public figure and politician, Member of Parliament of Ukraine of the 8th convocation. Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Verkhovna Rada. Founder and head of the board of the NGO "Network for the Protection of National Interests 'ANTS'". Chair of the Democracy in Action (DIA) conference.
Co-founder of the International Center for Ukrainian Victory and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Warsaw Security Forum.
Co-founder of the International Center for Ukrainian Victory and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Warsaw Security Forum.
Donors
Partners
Charities
Olexandr Kovalenko, Maria Shevchenko, Dmytro Lysenko, Anna Bondarenko, Ivan Sydorenko, Kateryna Hnatenko, Serhiy Tkachenko, Olena Petrova, Volodymyr Kravchenko, Nataliya Melnyk, Andriy Hryshchenko, Tetyana Kostenko, Yuriy Solovey, Oksana Romanenko, Viktoriya Kuzmenko, Pavlo Doroshenko, Lyudmila Levchenko, Artem Suprun, Svitlana Goncharenko, Denys Yakovenko.
You can support the activities of the Foundation by transferring a charitable contribution to the account
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