{"id":46489,"date":"2015-12-11T16:03:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T16:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=38527"},"modified":"2015-12-11T22:53:30","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T19:53:30","slug":"38527-tacussel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/38527-tacussel","title":{"rendered":"All who help Ukraine from abroad do so because they have faith in it. It is important that Ukrainians have faith in themselves \u2013 French volunteer Nicolas Tacussel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kyiv, December 11, 2015.<\/strong> <\/em>Over this year French volunteer organization \u201cSmile for Ukraine\u201d has held individual psychological consultation sessions for over 650 Ukrainian servicemen, organized seminars for about 130 Ukrainian psychologists and volunteers as well as has traveled about 15 times to the areas at the contact line. \u201cTogether with the French organization \u2018France-Ukraine Solidarity\u2019 we have delivered almost 500 kg of clothes and toys to orphanages,\u201d said Nicolas Tacussel, French volunteer, at a press briefing at Ukraine Crisis Media Center. \u201cWe are here to help everyone affected by the conflict, we seek to do our utmost to decrease traumatic consequences for them so that Ukraine gets back to normal life as soon as possible,\u201d noted Tacussel.<\/p>\n

Volunteers of \u201cSmile for Ukraine\u201d planned one more training session for psychologists who will continue working with ATO veterans. However, due to the lack of resources they were able to train only 40 out of 90 applicants. \u201cIt happened this way because we are travelling to the ATO zone, holding individual training sessions and working with orphans at the same time. Besides, I have a job in Paris that is actually a financial source for these activities in Ukraine,\u201d explained Tacussel. He noted that it is still too early to summarize 2015 work results: another seminar starts in Kharkiv, the one for psychologists working with servicemen of various battalions nearby the contact line.<\/p>\n

Volunteers plan to work in two main directions in 2016. First one includes training sessions for servicemen on self-control in stressful situations that will help prepare them psychologically to what they might come across at a battle field. \u201cDelivering psychological training to servicemen prior their participation in combat actions brings better results. Human brain is designed in such a way that if it is ready for a stress that one may come across on the battlefield the stress will be smaller,\u201d explained Tacussel. Second direction includes systematic work with orphans. Tacussel noted that these children especially the ones living in the frontline areas drastically need psychological assistance: \u201cThey already have numerous traumas \u2013 abandoned by parents or having lost their parents, some of who were killed defending Ukraine. And on top of that they actually live in the combat zone\u201d. At the same time in the orphanage that the volunteers visited in ATO zone there was only one psychologist per 150 children. \u201cWhen working with these children it is very important to appease and \u2018calm\u2019 them as majority of them absolutely don\u2019t understand how this war has become possible. They are sometimes full of anger and hatred, it may transform into catastrophic consequences for Ukraine,\u201d noted Tacussel. In the view of the situation \u201cSmile for Ukraine\u201d plans to train 10 psychologists who will later go to work to orphanages located in the ATO zone. Additionally 20 French and Ukrainian volunteers are preparing a brochure \u2013 a comic strip for children of school age in which they will try to explain what has happened in the country. Nicolas Tacussel emphasized that it is now extremely important to implant universal human values and love to their own country in the children, to teach them to look forward into the future after everything that has happened and that some of them have probably went through.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019Smile for Ukraine\u2019 is open for cooperation with both NGOs and various ministries and agencies interested in our projects,\u201d noted Tacussel adding that volunteers can be reached through the organization\u2019s website or by writing him personally on Facebook. \u201cAlthough our projects are mostly designed for servicemen and children it would be nice to work with wider society to bring back people\u2019s faith in the future and help overcome these complicated times. All who are helping Ukraine from abroad are doing it because they have faith in it. It is now important that Ukrainians have faith in themselves,\u201d summarized Nicolas Tacussel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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