The morning of February 24 changed the life of every Ukrainian. A terrible war has come to our land. Most of our citizens were forced to leave their homes. Some people went to defend their native Ukraine, some went abroad to save children, some joined territorial defense forces, and some stayed to defend their hometown…

Students of Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design are currently in different parts of the country and the world. But even being far from the native alma mater, our students do not idle, but actively help everyone who needs it!

Students of the Faculties of Design, Chemical and Biopharmaceutical Technologies, Cultural and Creative Industries, the Institute of Engineering and Information Technologies in Chernivtsi, Ternopil, Lutsk and Transcarpathia weave camouflage nets and suits for our guys from the Armed Forces.

In Moldova, Slovakia and Western Ukraine, our students help sort clothes, food and basic necessities for people who have become forced migrants, left their homes and the country because of the war.

Students of the University also take care of pets that find themselves in difficult circumstances. They raise funds for food and move the animals to safe shelters.

Angelina Koriakina, a student at the Faculty of Design, is a volunteer at SVITANOK creative studio in Krakow.

Students of the Faculties of Cultural and Creative Industries, Management and Business Design, Design, who stayed in hostels and were forced to hide from enemy shelling in the basement of the University also did not waste time. Under the guidance of associate professors Oksana Lahoda, Pavlo Dudka, Yulia Paryshkura, the necessary products were purchased to prepare goodies for our defenders from the Armed Forces and territorial defense forces.

Students also did not forget to keep fit.

Active volunteering is carried out by the Center of Culture and Arts headed by Oleksandr Bilera. After all, the volunteer network covers the whole of Ukraine. They receive most of their humanitarian aid from Lviv and redirect it to those cities where it is most needed. Part of the aid to stabilize the grocery chain remains in Kyiv, and systematic work is underway to provide food to those in need.

Nazarii Ivaniuk, a first-year graduate student at the Department of Computer Engineering and Electromechanics, has been working as a high-speed train safety engineer at Hyundai Rotem for three years.

Nazarii provides safety and comfort of 24/7 passenger transport, and in this difficult time for all of us helps save thousands of lives every day and delivers humanitarian aid, in particular to the hero city of Kharkiv, which demonstrated incredible strength of spirit and a true pro-Ukrainian position!

Valentyna Palamarchuk, 2nd year graduate student, Management specialty, is a volunteer who helps internally displaced persons who have moved from the most dangerous places in Ukraine where hostilities still continue.

          Teachers and graduate students of the Faculty of Design are also active in volunteering. They help in the Red Cross mission, weave nets and are engaged in children’s creativity.

At the company ALEANA, research and teaching staff of the Faculty of Chemical and Biopharmaceutical Technologies participate in the manufacture of polymer containers for first aid kits for the Armed Forces, which are transferred to the volunteer organization «Peremoha», Boryspil City.

They also actively cooperate with the LLC «UkrPlastyk» to manufacture retort packages for sterilization of hot lunches for soldiers of the Armed Forces.

Olha Yungin, an associate professor of the Department of Leather and Fur Biotechnology works in the mobile clinic, performs hemoanalyst tests on temporarily displaced persons, refugees and locals in need.

Employees of the Department of Leather and Fur Biotechnology collect and transfer medicines, food, they work in the call-center for evacuation and accommodation of refugees.

Oleksii Baula, associate professor of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Business, the Faculty of Management and Business Design, is responsible for medical care for the Armed Forces.

The colleges of the University also did not stay away from the volunteer movement. Many teachers of the Professional College of Arts and Design at KNUTD (Olena Korobenko, Olha Zinchenko, Oleksii Yuhymenko, Larysa Koren, Dmytro Koval, Hanna Zhyvotovska, Iryna Blinova, Oleksandra Khrystoforova, Tetiana Maslovska) actively help our country in these difficult times by volunteering in various ways, such as: sew underwear, bulletproof vests and pharmacy boxes for the Armed Forces and territorial defense forces, collect and pack humanitarian aid, prepare meals, pack and deliver lunch boxes, help raise funds, etc.

Another example is Polina Talalai, a student of KNUTD College of Arts and Design, together with her parents and the local church in Hanover, Germany, helped to load humanitarian aid trucks for Ukrainians. They are currently helping to resettle IDPs, find shelter and residence in Germany, buy bulletproof vests and send them to their destinations. And there are a lot of similar examples. Everyone is trying to join the volunteer movement and be useful in these difficult times.

Unspeakable pride and gratitude from the entire University community to students who bravely went to defend their hometowns and joined territorial defense forces, including:

Vitalii Tkach (БА-21)

Vladyslav Chaika (БПКДск-21)

Dmytro Klymenko (БМТБ-1-21)

Viacheslav Sotnikov (БКІ-21)

Oleh Kharchenko (БЕМ-21)

Volodymyr Soinov (БП-20)

Davyd Hontaruk (БП-20)

Roman Humeniuk (МгХФ-21)

Oleksandr Klymenko (Бдweb-2-21)

Anatolii Tarasenko (БКІ-19)

Expressing sincere gratitude to all those who defend our Motherland in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and territorial defense forces, and to volunteers who help ordinary people in need, our students have recorded a video message.

Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design is proud of its students! Everyone can help in such difficult times!

Remember, only together can we win!

Glory to Ukraine!

10.04.2022