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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n\u2026Yurii submitted a grant proposal and received support from Global Communities. He needed help setting up a refrigerator room and a fruit dryer: he already had a suitable place for it as well as a boiler, part of the works had also been completed. Yurii used the grant funds to purchase construction materials, while paying for the work with his personal money. There was a lot of work to do, and in so little time, so he was completely absorbed by it, and it helped take his mind away. The eyes, however, remained just as sad, while the mind was somewhere far away \u2013 something you could see on the outside…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At last, a smile appeared on Yurii\u2019s stern face as he was in Lviv meeting other grantees at a training from the PEARL project, telling them about himself and his business. There, he was among very different people sharing their stories: some left the occupied territory with all their life in just a suitcase; some lost their business to shelling and were now restoring it, others were just getting started. And there were veterans, like Yurii, who, having been wounded, returned home and went back to building their lives \u2013 and who were sharing about it. Maybe, at that moment, something changed in Yurii\u2019s soul. His life started a new chapter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Grants are not always just about the funding. It is about warm conversations with people, it is about being humane, about moral support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sometimes, a smile on a veteran\u2019s face, like in this story, is more precious than any business or money. Because it is about a life that has been restored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/YUrij_ZHuk_trening2.jpg\")
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