It is a wonderful autumn season in Hamburg and last weekend (28 - 29 September 2024) in a picturesque place of the city, in a picturesque place of the city, in the Foundation ‘Samaritan Workers’ of Germany ASB, was held another seminar-training ‘Psychological assistance to victims of war in Ukraine’.

The seminar was attended by Ukrainian women from Kiev and Kiev region, Odessa, Mariupol (Donetsk region), Melitopol, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporozhye regions, and Crimea.

 The project is implemented by a married couple of doctors, political immigrants from Russia, Alexander and Galina Goncharenko.

Alla Danilich-Skakun, a psychologist from Kharkiv, acted as a trainer and speaker of this seminar-training.

During two days she not only managed to master a large amount of theoretical knowledge and practical skills on psychological self-help and mutual aid, but also to create a friendly team of like-minded women.

According to the tradition, at the end of the seminar the project team and the participants summarised the results.

 A lot of warm words were said by the Ukrainians to the project organisers and the psychologist.

Grateful feedback about the project was not only verbal, but also written in Ukrainian, Russian and German.

Project manager Alexander Goncharenko noted that sixty-five women from Ukraine received psychological help during six training seminars.

All the participants of the seminar will continue to communicate in the group WhatsApp: ‘Psychological assistance to victims of war in Ukraine’.

The project team and the participants of the seminar-training express their gratitude to the sponsors of the seminar, the Toepfer Foundation from Hamburg , thank the team and the head of ASB Günter Arndt for their hospitality and tasty lunches, and the Managing Director of the Hamburg Foundation for Politically Persecuted Persons , Martina Baeurle, for her constant assistance to the project. 

At the end of the event, Alexander Goncharenko informed the audience that the seventh psychological training seminar will be held on 2-3 November and asked the women to share the information with other refugee women. 

Photo 1 Collective photo of the workshop

Photo 2 Alexander Goncharenko talks about the project

Photo 3 Psychologist at work

Photo 4 Lunch at the seminar is a sacred thing

Photo 5 Alla Danilich-Skakun helps to master the methodology

Photo 6 Group technique

Photo 7 Collective summarising

Photo 8 Each participant summarises her individual results

Photo 9 Final table of work of all participants of the training